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WHY DOES CN8 LOOK SO BAD?

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Is it just my cable company or does CN8 look lifeless everywhere?

Everytime I watch it, CN8 just looks horrible. Bland, lifeless, color processing. All their programming (live and pre-recorded) looks like its coming off of an average-grade VCR.

Doesn't Comcast have enough money to fix-up the technical end of CN8?
 
I'd like to know why it took them so long to actually put CN8 ON 8! It ran for years on 9.

It also has crappy audio to match it's washed out video. But for the love of God, their little baby child QVC is sharp as a tack...you know the channel that HAD to be put on the "basic" tier for the elderly. Why not more over the air locals? At least one in Spanish.
 
PSULuis said:
Chester County still gets CN8 on Channel 4
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Not true for all of Chester County - its only those systems that get WGAL on channel 8. Places like Downingtown, Exton, Coatesville, etc. The systems from Malvern eastward and in the Phoenixville/Pottstown area get CN8 on channel 8 (and no WGAL). I'd estimate that it's about a 50-50 split.

Odd too is that the western systems get NJN and not WLVT, while the eastern ones get WLVT and no NJN. Aren't they closer to NJ? Makes no sense to me.
 
BRNout said:
PSULuis said:
Chester County still gets CN8 on Channel 4
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Not true for all of Chester County - its only those systems that get WGAL on channel 8. Places like Downingtown, Exton, Coatesville, etc. The systems from Malvern eastward and in the Phoenixville/Pottstown area get CN8 on channel 8 (and no WGAL). I'd estimate that it's about a 50-50 split.

Odd too is that the western systems get NJN and not WLVT, while the eastern ones get WLVT and no NJN. Aren't they closer to NJ? Makes no sense to me.
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I can't speak for Comcast's odd situation with WLVT and NJN there, but I know FIOS is carrying both 39 and NJN throughout the Philadelphia DMA, wherever they serve or will serve. So, Southern NJ will get 39. Fios is fully digital, so they don't have to worry too much about one local channel taking up too much bandwith.

Comcast on the other hand still has its must-carry locals on analog, which is worth 6 digital channels, and from Comcast's perspective every local channel becomes an opportunity cost consideration.

It is something unusual with WTVE 51. The Comcast cable system in the Atlantic City area carries WTVE, which is 100 miles from Reading, yet the Comcast cable system in Cherry Hill, approximately 55 miles, doesn't. I know the reason in WTVE's case is that Comcast acquired both systems, and the WTVE owner had arranged a feed with Suburban Cable servicing Atlantic City, but not with Garden State Cable. Later, WTVE didn't persist in getting carriage on Comcast in Camden and Burlington Counties - meanwhile Comcast isn't going to go out of its way to keep an analog channel for them.

Dish and DirecTV have added WTVE within the last 2 years or so, however.

For the longest time, Comcast Trenton had NJN on Ch.8, and CN8 on some other number. I think only recently NJN has been put on Ch.23 on all or most all systems, which turned to be an opening for Comcast to move CN8 to 8 there.
 
amfmsw said:
I'd like to know why it took them so long to actually put CN8 ON 8! It ran for years on 9.

It also has crappy audio to match it's washed out video. But for the love of God, their little baby child QVC is sharp as a tack...you know the channel that HAD to be put on the "basic" tier for the elderly. Why not more over the air locals? At least one in Spanish.
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QVC hasn't been Comcast owned for almost 4 years.
 
rch66 said:
I can't speak for Comcast's odd situation with WLVT and NJN there, but I know FIOS is carrying both 39 and NJN throughout the Philadelphia DMA, wherever they serve or will serve. So, Southern NJ will get 39. Fios is fully digital, so they don't have to worry too much about one local channel taking up too much bandwith.

Comcast on the other hand still has its must-carry locals on analog, which is worth 6 digital channels, and from Comcast's perspective every local channel becomes an opportunity cost consideration.

It is something unusual with WTVE 51. The Comcast cable system in the Atlantic City area carries WTVE, which is 100 miles from Reading, yet the Comcast cable system in Cherry Hill, approximately 55 miles, doesn't. I know the reason in WTVE's case is that Comcast acquired both systems, and the WTVE owner had arranged a feed with Suburban Cable servicing Atlantic City, but not with Garden State Cable. Later, WTVE didn't persist in getting carriage on Comcast in Camden and Burlington Counties - meanwhile Comcast isn't going to go out of its way to keep an analog channel for them.

Dish and DirecTV have added WTVE within the last 2 years or so, however.

For the longest time, Comcast Trenton had NJN on Ch.8, and CN8 on some other number. I think only recently NJN has been put on Ch.23 on all or most all systems, which turned to be an opening for Comcast to move CN8 to 8 there.
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Actually, I've noticed that and would absolutely jump on FIOS - but it is not available yet where I live. So, I am stuck with Comcraptic cable. WLVT-39 is a good channel, but it would be nice to get NJN too - especially since I can even get 2 of their signals via indoor loop antenna.

About WTVE, I do not even think that we get this channel in eastern Chester County. If so, there's absolutely nothing on it because I've never noticed it. And, I've even noticed WMCN-DT on our cable lineup....thanks to the occasional weather briefs that they give between heaping helpings of infomercials and other dreck.
 
Comcast Channels 1-99 are still analog. The so-called "digital upgrade" only covers channels from 100 up and so - no surprise - the lower channels do look like a VCR. If you have an HD receiver, they look terrible. Unfortunately, the analog channels are the most widely-viewed cable channels.

FIOS is all digital and the quality is much better. In addition, Comcast's digital channels are compressed which reduces picture quality even on those channels. FIOS channels are not. All Comcast channels come through the cable at any time; FIOS works like the Internet and only "downloads" the video stream you request (tune in).

DirecTV and Dish are also all digital but also compressed.
 
Channels 1-99 are only analog if you don't have digital. If you have a digital box, you will receive them in digital. That's just how the picture on CN8 looks. It's a small station, which has low technology. It's nothing wrong with YOUR system.
 
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