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SACRAMENTO DTV TEST fails on COMCAST!

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Madmansam

They have been saying for quite a while that if you have Cable TV or Satellite TV, you won't have to worry about the DTV change and you will not need a Converter Box. Well, KCRA-TV Channel 3 in SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA had a DTV test today (Sept.24) where they turned off the ANALOG SIGNAL for 1 Minute. Well guess what! I have COMCAST and there was no signal! I had assumed that COMCAST converted the DIGITAL SIGNAL into a ANALOG SIGNAL for CABLE TV, but apparently, it was just the standard Analog Signal that COMCAST sent out. Now this is only for BASIC STANDARD CABLE TV SERVICE and not the HDTV CABLE package available on its digital tier service. Hopefully COMCAST will do something soon?
 
This isn't a failure of DTV but rather of Comcast which needs to pick up the digital signal to downconvert. I'd get in touch with your cable provider ASAP and let them know you have an issue.
 
1069_KIFR said:
See the future! Dump Comcast and say hello to Dish or Direct TV!
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Or, with an antenna and a converter (or, full-blown DTV set), you'd have kept your signal and had many others, too!

Remember, Cable TV may not carry any of the multicast channels, or might require you to get Digital Cable to receive them.

Satellite will only carry four of the local channels in HDTV (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox), and no others. Whatever locals they do carry will be low-rez SDTV.
 
I would suspect that the cable company may be getting a direct feed from the TV station (fiber, etc). In that case, the TV station might have not made appropriate changes on their end. Just a guess.

Defiantly let your cable company know, try to speak with an engineer or something along those lines rather than just a "customer care rep".
 
milton77 said:
I would suspect that the cable company may be getting a direct feed from the TV station (fiber, etc). In that case, the TV station might have not made appropriate changes on their end. Just a guess.
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I think we have our winner here. I'd be shocked if KCRA wasn't feeding fiber to Comcast's Sacramento headend. I'm sure both Comcast and KCRA are aware of this result.
 
I know many cable companies in rural areas away from fiber head ends still receive the signal from the analog side as one cable company where I live has a bar in the picture of one station due to an obstuction in the city causing the picture to cross path in one direction. a direction to the cable tv companies head end receiver!!!
 
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