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Post by zekmoe on Jun 27, 2012 15:25:34 GMT -5
Fuse is back btw, but they seemed to change formats from a Rock/Alternative playlist to HipHop. Not for me I guess.
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Post by zekmoe on Jun 27, 2012 15:23:10 GMT -5
We got it, but it also behaves very differently. At the places today, my house, my mothers and a friends, it locked up the DTV signal. Froze the channel. Happend at least 10x and each person said they were noticing this as well. Also, when you choose an OnDemand channel, it seems to send it in a funny resolution, and my TV seems to mis convert the signal and it oversizes the menu. Can't see the bottom half of it anymore. Very glitchy.
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Post by zekmoe on Mar 21, 2010 7:26:20 GMT -5
I've given it a couple of weeks, looked thru the menus trying to understand it, but I've decided I hate the updated menu software. Here's what I lost:
1) Font is smaller. Sorry, but I'm needing it just a bit larger 2) Way slower to change channels 3) when you do change, if you immediately do a menu scan up/down, to see what's on adjacent channels, the menu scans your previous stations adjacent channels. Like the channel tunes in first, but the menu has yet to catch up. 4) Scanning up/down by time is gone. I used to be able to see what's on an hour from now, but advancing the time on the station I was on, then menu channel up and down to see what's on other channels at that time. When you do that it reverts to the current time. So to see what's on at 8pm on other channels, you need to go to the menu on the channel and forward up the time. Very clumsey 5) a "Please Wait" black screen hang. It seems to get hung up and only turning it off fixes it. 6) a very long delay if you accidentally cross a channel you don't subscribe to. This is likely to call up the press on purchase menu that now displays, trying to trap you into ordering it. But it's like 10 seconds waiting for the channel display to unhang and show the BUy Me display before being able to switch away.
I swear I'm going to drop everything but what can be tuned in my my set. These boxes have made the experience unenjoyable. ANd I still miss HDNET and HDNETMovies.
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Post by zekmoe on May 28, 2009 9:27:15 GMT -5
they were gone on my system as of this morning.
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Post by zekmoe on Jan 8, 2007 22:35:12 GMT -5
Neither format is selling. Consumers, even those with a decent tv, are pretty satisfied with regular DVD. It's not like VHS-DVD differences to the average guy. I'll wait until they're cheaper. And I have a decent high end standard dvd. It's just not night and day from what I've seen.
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Post by zekmoe on Oct 14, 2005 13:38:55 GMT -5
This whole article smarts of Po-Boy sour grapes. It's like the same reasoning that consmer reports used when they lied about the sounds of all CD players being the same, when in fact they are glaringly different. Look at the image, the features, and the cost, and decide for yourself.
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Post by zekmoe on Apr 8, 2008 19:28:51 GMT -5
Were they back on the original 18.08 or still on 102.07? I hate it when they change because there's both no warning, nor is there a listing that I can find telling where they went. It takes a while for my set to rescan the channels in, and longer for me to really remember where they are. What's the benefit in so much shifting?
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Post by zekmoe on Dec 16, 2007 20:10:33 GMT -5
Thanks. That's probably what happened. Got blocked or encrypted. The only reason I asked is I didn't want to go thru the longish channel tuning thing again.
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Post by zekmoe on Dec 15, 2007 18:59:59 GMT -5
Recently we got an HD Set for the bedroom, which tunes in some digital HD channels over the cable without my HD cable box on the downstairs main set. Channels show up on the tuner like 18.6, 18.13 etc. Anyway, we had a channel on 114.6 , and after a couple of weeks it disappeared. I checked the TW web site, and all they had were listings for the channels on thru the box. None of these digital channels are listed. Anyone know where 114.6 went and where I could find a local listing of what channels there should be? Thanks
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Post by zekmoe on Dec 20, 2006 20:56:37 GMT -5
Ugh! Nothing to me is a greater waste of TV time than ESPN 2. Womens Basketball? 6 hours of World Series of Poker? Table Tennis? Truly a waste of HD bandwith. And they could have had Cinemax or StarzHD. Oh well, maybe next year.
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Post by zekmoe on Oct 15, 2005 12:55:08 GMT -5
I guess what I meant more was, that for 99% of what I know people do, RR is more than sufficient. Maybe not for live broadcast, but everything up to that. I download movie trailers all the time and hardly wait if ever for it to show. General web surfing, you're more at the speed of all the hops, routers, and site servers than TW response. But yes, comparitive speed to what you state, it's a competative deal. I'd still rather have my 6mbps for $20 than 15 for $45 though.
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Post by zekmoe on Oct 14, 2005 13:30:01 GMT -5
From their web site, the rates don't look so good, and certainly no better than TWC. Up to 5 Mbps/2 Mbps $34.95 - $39.95 Up to 15 Mbps/2 Mbps $44.95 - $49.95 Up to 30 Mbps/5 Mbps $179.95 - $199.95 // Who outside of a business is going to pay for this?
I recently looked into the digital phone option, and overall, it would save me about $5 a month, and I would lose the rock solid reliability of the regular phone, including working when there is a local power outage. Not better in anyway. What people want, the companies won't give them. Similar service, LOWER COST. Try $20 for broadband and $30 for 180 cable channels and then you'd have mass migration.
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Post by zekmoe on Dec 14, 2005 17:56:14 GMT -5
Just curious Skaggs, but what do you think the percentage of over the air HD customers a station gets in this area? I have no idea, but I'd say it's way below the national average of like 5%. It seems like a losing investment for the stations.
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Post by zekmoe on Jan 11, 2005 19:07:45 GMT -5
The reply I got was essentially "It's none of your business, but thanks for asking" I know they mean that everything these days is contractual with hush clauses until it's final, but really, we're not talking Nukes, we're talking HD Tv.
Bob, worked for a corporation for years. Knows how it goes.
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Post by zekmoe on Jan 3, 2005 17:43:38 GMT -5
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