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Title: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: Nick on March 05, 2010, 06:25:20 PM
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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCfdxFhBFE#)

They also offer TWC in HD in the 500s channels.
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: Zach on March 05, 2010, 06:37:10 PM
Awesome. :)

I noticed that a lot of IntelliSTARs on Fiber Optic cable feeds look like that on tuners. :thinking:
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: TWCToday on March 05, 2010, 08:55:38 PM
I noticed that a lot of IntelliSTARs on Fiber Optic cable feeds look like that on tuners. :thinking:
What do you mean?


Thanks for posting the video. Great quality
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: Zach on March 05, 2010, 09:05:08 PM
I noticed that a lot of IntelliSTARs on Fiber Optic cable feeds look like that on tuners. :thinking:

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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUhSMWHiV5E#)

REUPLOADED: Wake Up with Al Playlist 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMi52-QyCmg#)


And then a standard IS video

Savannah, GA IntelliSTAR Clip- 7/26/09 @ 11:28 PM ET (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MuTjiCgJso#)
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: TWCToday on March 05, 2010, 09:13:57 PM
OK... i just assumed that was tuner related. I doubt it has anything to do with fiber optic cable companies
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: Mike M on March 05, 2010, 10:10:26 PM
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.
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: Nick on March 05, 2010, 11:11:12 PM
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).
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: Mike M on March 06, 2010, 12:01:08 AM
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...
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: TWCToday on March 06, 2010, 08:17:54 PM
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
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: Nick on March 06, 2010, 09:45:06 PM
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.
Title: New topic
Post by: james on July 05, 2011, 08:47:34 PM
  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 .
Title: Re: Cincinnati Bell Fioptics
Post by: Trevor on July 05, 2011, 08:57:24 PM
  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 .

 :blink: What?
Title: Re: New topic
Post by: Nick on July 07, 2011, 10:51:15 PM
  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.