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COX Public Access eliminating Tapes and DVDs

It's pretty standard now among most TV stations and networks nowadays. Simply put, all recorded video is saved digitally on servers, basically save on storage space in their facilities; it's just like you saving your videos on your computer, or keeping your recorded programs on your DVR.
 
M.J. said:
nomadcowatbk said:
They still have public access in the Youtube age?
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I had thought that was mandatory by law for cable providers to have.
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Kansas City still has a City Government channel that plans to go HD, but it got rid of the public access channel requirement (cheap citizen created shows) in 1987 when the KKK tried get a show, American Cablevision (now Time Warner) still kept that channel for about another decade until it replaced it with Metro Sports
 
Looking at their Program Guide, it's all just preaching anyway.
Most people who have access to upload programming via the net, don't really need old-fashioned Cable TV Access Channels anyway. They can create their own channels on YouTube.
 
Insight (soon Time Warner) in Louisville has used a server-based storage and playback system on its Public Access channel for over 12 years. It covers about 75 percent of the 370,000 customers in the Louisville Interconnect Region.

Access clients (most of whom take their shows very seriously) can either book access studio time to produce shows, or bring by videotape, DVD, or downloads for insertion into the server for scheduling and playback. The programs run the gamut from religious teaching to bizarre artists...and that's exactly what PA is for. Metro Louisville/Jefferson (unified city-county) originates its own award-winning Government channel on the system, too.

Two jurisdictions (Jefferson and Shelby Counties) have strong PA clauses within the master cable agreement, and they insist that Insight keep their PA facilities up to date and viable.
 
mescutia said:
MarcB said:
DToTheJ said:
YouTube might be a better option than Cox Channel 15, where the "public access" channel is actually shared with C-SPAN:
http://ww2.cox.com/residential/connecticut/tv/channel-lineup.cox
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Actually 15 is CSPAN without a box. 15 is Public Access with a box. Without a box Public Access is 123.185 and with a box CSPAN is 76.
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Seriously?
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Seriously.

Without a box:

117.170 Government Access (Each of the 3 towns controls their own channel) - 14 with a box
117.173 Educational Access (again each of the 3 towns controls their own channel) - 16 with a box
118.180 SonLife Bible Network (Jimmy Swaggart's Network) - 72 with a box
119.179 Jewelry TV - 71 with a box
119.182 WZME/43 Bridgeport, CT METV/Infomercials - 75 with a box
121.182 Liquidation Channel - a reverse auction Jewelery and Gemstone shopping service - 73 with a box
122.177 TVGN - 87 with a box
123.185 COX Public Access TV 15 - 15 with a box

Note: COX does not list these channel positions on their line up. It is something we discovered back in November when we got rid of our box and hooked the cable directly into our HDTVs.
 
Your TV isn't mapping the channels right. I have one that does the same thing. Provided Cox did the mapping correctly, those QAM channels should map down to 71, 72, etc just like an OTA station maps its physical to virtual channel.
 
It's a little (OK, a lot) more complicated than that. Those channels aren't remapping because Cox doesn't have any interest in making it convenient for consumers to watch on a QAM-tuner-equipped set without a Cox-provided converter box. Cox is required (for now) to make these channels available in unscrambled QAM, even though most of its lineup is encrypted, but it's not required to make the process easy. At any moment, Cox can rearrange where any of these channels are located with no notice to the consumer, and in the next couple of years those channels will probably be encrypted as well.
 
That isn't necessarily the case. My local cable company maps all of the QAM channels, but I have one TV (a Toshiba) that will not accept those mappings. All the other TVs map the channels just as the converter maps them. Keeping the mappings requires a rescan every now and then, but they are still there afterwards.
 
All those channels are "digital". 3 through 13, 17/18/20, and 24 through 62 plus 70/96 are non digital. 71 through 79 plus 82 through 87 are digital.

This is on all 3 HDTV we have. A 42 in Vizio in The Family Room, a 26 in Vizio in Mom's Room, and a 19 in Sylvania in the office. For whatever reason on the Sylvania 121.181 The Liquidation Channel suffers from digital break up. There are other channels in that upper 100 range, but they're duplicates of some of the regular lower-teir channels.

The HD feeds and sub channels of the broadcast stations show up on their regular channel number.

3.1 WFSB HD is 1003 with a box.
3.3 Eyewitness News Now is 801 with a box.

8.1 WTNH HD is 1008 with a box.
8.2 Bouce TV is 813 with a box.

19.3 Unimas is 79 with a box. (With OTA TV 18.3 is Unimas, but COX does carry 18.1 (WUVN's HD feed)

20.1 WCCT HD is 1011 with a box.
20.2 This-TV is 811 with a box.

24.1 CPTV HD is 1005 with a box.
24.2 CPTV 4U is 804 with a box.
24.3 CPTV Sports is 805 with a box.

30.1 WVIT HD is 1004 with a box.
30.2 COZI TV is 800 with a box.

40.1/77.1 WGGB HD. (A bonus channel we're not supposed to get).

59.1 WCTX HD is 1009 with a box.
59.2 COOL TV is 812 with a box.

61.1 WTIC HD is 1006 with a box.
61.2 Antenna TV is 810 with a box.
 
That.... that's just craziness.

Scott Fybush said:
It's a little (OK, a lot) more complicated than that. Those channels aren't remapping because Cox doesn't have any interest in making it convenient for consumers to watch on a QAM-tuner-equipped set without a Cox-provided converter box. Cox is required (for now) to make these channels available in unscrambled QAM, even though most of its lineup is encrypted, but it's not required to make the process easy.
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In other words, Cox found a loophole and is exploiting it [to three decimal places?] to "encourage" people to rent converter boxes from them. Lovely.

What about people who use a CableCard plugged into a TiVo? Do they get the properly mapped channel numbers?
 
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