While some Comcast areas already converted to digital only they just begun the process in Waterbury. It happened sometime between 2AM Saturday Night (Sunday Morning) and today. We lost 14 channels where I work at Illusions in Wolcott. Some of the 14 we lost include: VS, TNT, Food Network, and Cartoon Network/Adult Swim. Since I don't have this channel line-up memorized I don't know off the top of my head what the other 10 missing channels are. My boss at Illusions is also pissed off he has to get 12 boxes. He said the first 2 are free. The rest are $1.99 each.
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Comcast has begun the switch to Digital Only in Waterbury
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Dtv said:
I thought Cable companies qere required to carry HD local channels in thier lowest package.
MarcB said:
You could have it worse. When Cablevision turned off analog service last year I have a video headend in a building that is completely worthless since it was equipped with analog channelizers. Cablievision charges $5/month and they need 10 boxes.
1.99 doesn't seem to bad, but I can understand that adds up after month after month. It would be nice where people still use their SD tv and just be able to hook up cable straight from the wall to it. In my home I just have one cable box and thats hooked up to the flat panel and in the bed room a Sharp 19in SD hooked straight from the wall. And looks fine in the bed room, don't need nothing to fancy.
Asking about what Comcast is doing, does Time Warner Cable plan on doing this soon?
Asking about what Comcast is doing, does Time Warner Cable plan on doing this soon?
MarcB said:
That's a DTA (Digital Terminal Adapter).
Dtv said:
The HD local channels will not be scrambled. You can use a cable splitter and put cable in the back of tv and cable into little Comcast box. Get A/B switch to go between if little box only has coax. Some HD programming will not be scrambled and if your HD TV is newer, it should have a QAM tuner to watch these channels in HD. Older HD TVs only have an analog tuner and this won't work.
...and for those of you who are disgusted with Comcast over this itty bitty little dta, I already told them how unhappy I was when I called to activate my little old babushka's additional tv when online didn't cut it. I had this weird little Hot Butter wannabe thingy sounding all sophisticated and technical and all, while I was on hold forever. When I finally went crazy(ier) I just called the regular Comcast number and the woman who sent a quick signal to the little box told me I could thank the Congress for that...and we ain't talking the current Congress.
Over on the Waterbury system they're playing hard-ball. Now every time the message pops up on the screen (every half hour at the top and botom of the hour) about getting the digital equipment it knocks out the signal during sports broadcasts - i.e. The Yankees on YES, The Bruins/Redsox on NESN. And it's just during the sports broadcasts. The 2 TVs by the pool table were set to The Yankees Game on YES and my TV in the DJ booth was set to 2 1/2 Men on FX and I could see the signal cut out on YES and yet on FX it was fine.
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