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Messages - gparris

#1
Latest News / Charter to buy Time Warner Cable
Monday May 25, 2015, 06:46:15 PM
Com cast lost but that didn't mean the party ended. Plan B was to try to some other player buy TWC. Let's see how fast this happens. How much worse is Charter than TWC?:bang:
#2
Latest News / TWC Navigator/Box Update
Tuesday Jun 10, 2014, 12:49:44 PM
Not working either.  I wonder how bad it's going to be once Charter gets us.
#3
Latest News / Grid stuck
Sunday Jun 08, 2014, 12:01:43 AM
I have the home system and the grid is stuck. You hit the guide button and nothing works and you cannot get out of it. Rebooting does not work. This is awful. The remote cannot get you out of it. WTF?
Now it started working at least on one DVR. Are TWC's programmers working late to fix that B button? You still cannot do a search for anything yet. You are all correct - the old program let you use the B button to show repeat and future shows  -but no more.
#4
Latest News / TWC Navigator/Box Update
Wednesday Apr 23, 2014, 07:21:09 AM
There was a new update done to the 500GB TWC DVR  boxes a few days ago. Now the recorded and scheduled and options are on the top when you hit the list  button on the remote with different graphics. Additionally, the info button on a specific show will come up with a picture of the show being played or recorded, a nice feature.
I don't know if any other cable boxes show this, but the newer cable boxes are showing this now.
#5
Latest News / Same old, Same old...
Thursday Mar 20, 2014, 09:51:38 PM
Upon previewing what EPIX has, it looks like some nice noncommercial channels, but these are just like any of the other HBO, Showtime, etc channels, nothing new and I don't notice EPIX offering any series shows like HBO has True Blood, etc, nothing.
It is great though, to have more to watch and free (for now) with 4 more HD channels, especially since TWC has not added anymore HD premium channels in the lineup to match the SD ones not offered in HD in the HBO, etc. channels.
#6
Latest News / TWC raising prices-again
Thursday Mar 20, 2014, 09:45:41 PM
I just received my on line billing, mind you, I have a promotion that covers me (hopefully) until the end of the year, but the pricing is going up.
To start with, there is the $10.00 per STB or STB-DVR box fees are going from $10.00 to $11.25 each, for example, then the Standard TV (includes "Starter TV) is going from $75.99 to $77.99, Variety Pass goes from $10.95 to $12.00 and get this- $2.50 extra a month for "Broadcast TV fee". What a joke!:bang:
#7
In our neighbourhood, HD channels 1004 and 1006 like to go out in the late evening and suddenly reappear as if nothing happened. Channel 1224 and 1225 like to do the same thing but not at the same time the other 2 HD channels do and no one at TWC knows what is happening when I call, or so it seems. All I know is that once I call (sometimes) the channels reappear after I call and complain. Insane.
#8
Latest News / Comcast buying Time Warner Cable
Wednesday Feb 12, 2014, 11:06:06 PM
Oh great. Comcast has crap TV service. I guess the first thing that will happen is Comcast will end the good service I get with Signature Home. Maybe I should stop throwing out those DirecTV mailers?:bang:
#9
Latest News / TWC Navigator/Box Update
Thursday Jan 16, 2014, 07:22:32 AM
The guide and the DVR fast forward screens are finally set for full HD screens, a very (finally) good addition to what seemed to be a old format for SD TVs that are going away, at least in my household. DVR compensation, something we lost, is now  back and I now have to remember to use it, compensating on my own with the remote took some skill and I have to relearn not to do it.
As far as the other features, I  still use the # button to zoom, normal and stretch on the fly to get un-viewable parts of the screen, that is all I have to mention regarding that, but the upgrade is worth it-I don't watch any SD programming anymore.
My whole house system seems to work well and I did not see any problems last night. Jack 1000, thanks for the info. :wave:
#10
Milwaukee HDTV Programming / Time Warner/TM4 carriage dispute
Saturday Sep 21, 2013, 12:03:04 PM
Honestly, though there isn't much NBC I watch anymore, there are some new shows I find tempting for now, so if TWC goes to some oddball channel instead of 4 for channel 4, it will missed down the listing lineup with the other local channels when the realignment occurs with Auto HD. I can remember 1004, but the new channel number assignment is awful if used without 1004.
EDIT: I just found analogue channel WTMJ:  It's in never-ever land channel 83!:bang:
With the new alignment, that just won't do as it is way past the other local network channels, so if TWC keeps it that way with Auto HD, no one is going to find it, or at least NOT as easily and this will be even more damaging to WTMJ TV for viewers, what a mess.
TWC: you are not doing the subscriber any favors!
#11
Milwaukee HDTV Programming / CBS ends dispute with TWC
Monday Sep 02, 2013, 05:41:50 PM
Engadget HD has shown the announcement about CBS and TWC ending their dispute, but no details were given, but I wonder what they were? Did TWC cave much?
I am waiting for my Showtime and The Movie Channel credits to appear on my next billing cycle, Smithsonian Channel to reappear, too, no credit due because it is  part of the HD package, sad to say.
Will Journal Broadcast Group or " JBG"(for NBC channels 4 and 1004 and in my case, Chicago channel 5 for NBC) come back anytime soon, also? You never know until it happens.:huh?:
#12
Latest News / TW raising RoadRunner prices
Monday Sep 02, 2013, 10:28:04 AM
I don't know if 1Gbps service is really needed, my 50Mbps seems to work great, even for 1080p streaming for movies, but if and when more will be needed, it might just be there. Maybe if UHD movies streaming became "necessary" something close to that would be required, I don't know.
Raising monthly bills over a year's time seems inevitable, I don't like it as would anyone as a subscriber, but as long as there are no usage caps and RR works well, it is the lesser of two evils, IMO.
It would be great to have competition, it seems to make for lower prices, better service and overall customer satisfaction.
#13
Quote from: Jack 1000;59676Is it known how much revenue WTMJ is losing every day by not being on TWC?

Jack

JBG will do whatever it takes to make it look like TWC's fault, never admit that it is losing ad revenue based on lost viewers and continue its rhetoric until either one caves in. CBS claims it hasn't lost much of anything, even with over 3 million TWC subs not watching, unless they went the antenna route, which I doubt many have, IMO.
What I believe is that both have lost much ad revenue, they are hurting badly, but they will never show those "cards" on the negotiating table.
#14
Milwaukee HDTV Programming / Time Warner/TM4 carriage dispute
Saturday Aug 24, 2013, 09:50:07 AM
Good video, there seems to be a lot going on in the backround that CBS isn't telling us.
The part about CBS wanting subs to register their sets and end DVR-ing in the future (or something to that effect) she mentioned in the negotiations with CBS was very disturbing.
Right now, all I am really aggravated about is that, here in the Racine area, we lost Chicago channel 5 (NBC altogether) due to Journal Broadcast Group arrogance. My old neighbors in Kenosha still get it as an alternative to rabbit ears. That stinks for me, I refuse to do antennas with MY cable bill. :bang:
#15
Jack 1000,  
-TWC exists to make money for its investors, it tells its subscribers it's trying to hold down costs that gets passed on, but in reality, it's the investors, not the subscribers, TWC is concerned about. Its all BS, nothing more.

It's been a long time with these battles of Journal Broadcast Group and CBS with TWC, who is dragging it on and on and as its subscribers, we do not care, unless we, too are one of those investors, which most of us are probably not.

Putting the customer in the battle is annoying and aggravating, the subs just want to turn their sets on and watch the usual programming that they pay cable for, we could actually care less because in the end, the costs, due to investor demands, will go up anyway.

If other providers can work things out faster, so  be it. If Verizon FIOS was available in my area, I would have it by now, my family and friends in other states that have it, love it, they got the job done with CBS and TWC has not, plain and simple. But where I live all we have is TWC or satellite, no ATT or FIOS, so a monopoly exists.
TWC drags this on and on and the new fall shows are coming on, maybe that will push them, besides the falling subscriber numbers (maybe).