Cincinnati Bell Fioptics

[Nick]

I had Cincinnati Bell's fiber optic tv/internet/phone service (branded Fioptics) installed yesterday. Thought I'd post a video of their Intellistar installation.

Cincinnati Intellistar March 5, 2010

They also offer TWC in HD in the 500s channels.

[Zach]

Awesome.

I noticed that a lot of IntelliSTARs on Fiber Optic cable feeds look like that on tuners.

[TWCToday]

I noticed that a lot of IntelliSTARs on Fiber Optic cable feeds look like that on tuners.

What do you mean?


Thanks for posting the video. Great quality

[Zach]

I noticed that a lot of IntelliSTARs on Fiber Optic cable feeds look like that on tuners.

What do you mean?

Look at these videos from two different FiOS headends. I know he doesn't exactly have FiOS, but he does have Fiber-optic cable. If you look at the videos, they look a bit darker than any other IntelliSTAR video.

IntelliSTAR on Verizon FiOS Philadelphia- Aug 28 3 of 3

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And then a standard IS video

Savannah, GA IntelliSTAR Clip- 7/26/09 @ 11:28 PM ET

[TWCToday]

OK... i just assumed that was tuner related. I doubt it has anything to do with fiber optic cable companies

[Mike M]

Thanks for this. I noticed this star uses the traffic flow narration (since there's no traffic map). The Time Warner Cincy star wasn't like that as of late 2008.

[Nick]

I was going to say the differences in brightness were probably caused by different tuners or settings, but I see the last two videos were both recorded by Zach.

I will say that the picture quality I've seen so far surpasses what I had with Dish Network (compression artifacts) and far surpasses Time Warner's analog (ch 2-75).

[Mike M]

So Nick, I saw in another forum you got rid of Dish in early 2009. So you had no TV for a year? That must have sucked...

[TWCToday]

So Nick, I saw in another forum you got rid of Dish in early 2009. So you had no TV for a year? That must have sucked...

Wow that must have been rough

[Nick]

Not having cable/satellite wasn't that bad. I can receive all the over-the-air TV stations in the Cincinnati and Dayton markets. Better than back before cable when only about 5 channels would come in clearly here.

[james]

  When will Cincinnati Bell  offer   channel 5.2   me tv from WLWT Cincinnati ?  I hear Time Warner and Insight have it  ..And if you have a converter box you can get it without having cable .

[Trevor]

  When will Cincinnati Bell  offer   channel 5.2   me tv from WLWT Cincinnati ?  I hear Time Warner and Insight have it  ..And if you have a converter box you can get it without having cable .

  What?

[Nick]

  When will Cincinnati Bell  offer   channel 5.2   me tv from WLWT Cincinnati ?  I hear Time Warner and Insight have it  ..And if you have a converter box you can get it without having cable .

I get it on channel 23 (it was Weather Plus until July 1st). Not sure if it's the same channel number for cable ready.