Comcast/Xfinity

[Joe The Dragon]

If this does indeed happen would Xfinity Customers get Switched Digital Video (SDV) that Time Warner currently has?

that would need lot's of plant up grades in comcast land as well a lot of SDV tuners for cable card users.

[RJARRRPCGP]

I hate my Scientific Atlanta Explorer 4250C box! It randomly loses audio!

[HulkieD]

And we had Time Warner in some areas until it was assimilated into the borg hive mind that is xfinity.

I'm on FiOS these days, but my service was Comcast from the start in the 80s.  Hell, we had our service before it became Comcast!  Well, kind of.  Philadelphia, when it got cable in the late 1980s, had four different zones, each with a different franchise.  We were zoned as Rollins Cable, but Rollins got bought out by Heritage right before they launched.  So we were Heritage when we originally got cable, but Heritage decided to bail early on and sold to the operator of the adjacent zone.

I can still remember the creepy and cheap "Comcaaaaaaaast... commmmcast.... WATCH US NOW!" jingle and eyesore logo that started popping up all of a sudden.

I still kind of can't believe that the company that had the How To Order Pay Per View Rap now kind of controls the world. 

And yes.  Comcast.  took.  forever. to add anything.  We went to Wildwood, NJ to vacation, and they had TKR Cable (part-owned by TCI).  TKR kept adding stuff that Comcast wouldn't.  For a couple of years I wondered why their Weather Channel looked so awesome and ours looked like crap. (I don't think we got the 4000 until 1993 or 1994.)

[Joe The Dragon]

And we had Time Warner in some areas until it was assimilated into the borg hive mind that is xfinity.

I'm on FiOS these days, but my service was Comcast from the start in the 80s.  Hell, we had our service before it became Comcast!  Well, kind of.  Philadelphia, when it got cable in the late 1980s, had four different zones, each with a different franchise.  We were zoned as Rollins Cable, but Rollins got bought out by Heritage right before they launched.  So we were Heritage when we originally got cable, but Heritage decided to bail early on and sold to the operator of the adjacent zone.

I can still remember the creepy and cheap "Comcaaaaaaaast... commmmcast.... WATCH US NOW!" jingle and eyesore logo that started popping up all of a sudden.

I still kind of can't believe that the company that had the How To Order Pay Per View Rap now kind of controls the world. 

And yes.  Comcast.  took.  forever. to add anything.  We went to Wildwood, NJ to vacation, and they had TKR Cable (part-owned by TCI).  TKR kept adding stuff that Comcast wouldn't.  For a couple of years I wondered why their Weather Channel looked so awesome and ours looked like crap. (I don't think we got the 4000 until 1993 or 1994.)

Comcast Chicago area has done alot of poor stuff like.

Move channels to from analog to digital (higher tear with added costs) Back then direct was running radio ad's saying Comcast wants you to pay more or get less. Leading a few years down the road with channels like syfy and others being in comcast digital preferred when all other comcast areas had it in starter / extended

And years later when the main analog trun off for all of Chicagoland area was being down you where not able to get CSN + on the free dta's no you needed to pay like 6-7+ a box to get it. While at the same time other cable systems had CSN and CSN+ on analog (wow cable) / some comcast areas (was pulled midway though the turnoff that was going zone to zone in all areas). Also dish / directv had lower box / outlet costs.

CLTV SD and CSN + still use the same channel (why on digital cable is that sill needed?) and they was CLTV HD not added to the CSN + HD slot?

As for why CSN + was not just put on the SD ver of the info channel? That is on info channel HD (CSN + HD part time HD goes 480i when in info channel mode) there is a info channel SD / comcast network 101 that is a over flow of comcast network 100. CSN 2+ was on Comcast Network 101 and was on the DTA back then. But after analog trun off why not give CSN + it's own channel or add CLTV HD to the CSN + HD is a other odd thing.

also chcaigo land had other odd stuff like speed in expanded basic / starter in some parts but in sports pack in others and TCM is limited basic in some and in preferred in others.

Need to recall more about how bad they where.

[TWCJim]

The Comcast headend in Longview, WA has downconverted the HD Weather Channel feed onto the SD channel (channel 47) which shows an IS2 from nearby Vancouver. I don't quite understand why Comcast is replacing the SD channel with a 4:3 letterboxed HD feed. Perhaps to save money? 

[Eric]

The Comcast headend in Longview, WA has downconverted the HD Weather Channel feed onto the SD channel (channel 47) which shows an IS2 from nearby Vancouver. I don't quite understand why Comcast is replacing the SD channel with a 4:3 letterboxed HD feed. Perhaps to save money? 

If they've downconverted the HD feed onto an SD channel and removed the HD channel altogether, that's something I've never heard of before.  However, repeating the HD feed on the SD channel while keeping the HD channel, too, is becoming a common situation.

[TWCJim]

The Comcast headend in Longview, WA has downconverted the HD Weather Channel feed onto the SD channel (channel 47) which shows an IS2 from nearby Vancouver. I don't quite understand why Comcast is replacing the SD channel with a 4:3 letterboxed HD feed. Perhaps to save money? 

If they've downconverted the HD feed onto an SD channel and removed the HD channel altogether, that's something I've never heard of before.  However, repeating the HD feed on the SD channel while keeping the HD channel, too, is becoming a common situation.

Comcast has the regular TWC HD channel in Longview as well, but I wasn't able to view it with the digital adapter box. I guess Comcast must be trying to make room for newer channels by removing the TWC SD feed and repeating the HD feed as they are pretty much the same thing (sort of).