Milwaukee HDTV User Group

Hung on the antenna and tried to watch it on TMJ4.  The constant flashing of that FleetFarm board and that goofey 'Packers TV Network' shield actually made it unwatchable.  I gave up in the second quarter.  

More and more commercials during the commercial breaks, and that annoying garbage during the game itself and then they want to charge the transportation service more too?  Un-fricken-believable.

Here either.  Advertised 15/1, actual 14.5/0.98.

Are they still offering these rent free until the end of the year?  Did you just drop in to the TW store and ask for them?

There used to be an online link (which I can't fond now) that allow you to request one online.  But the 'procedure' didn't work.

I think you already know my opinion on this 'Retransmission Consent" on for otherwise free OTA stations, but whatever.

IRT your suggestion, what is to keep the distribution provider from just never coming to an agreement with the content provider?  The rate would stay at the original rate forever.  The only real power the content provider has it their ability to go on strike - to remove their consent to distribute..

Just recently bought an SB6141 from these guys:
https://www.advancedstream.com/49modem

Installed it and had it provisioned last Monday night.  Overnight, Tuesday morning at about 2 am, it got a new software load.  I too am now at
SB_KOMODO-1.0.6.12-SCM00-NOSH

Been stable since then, with no entries in the log other than those related to the SW load and reboot.

Quote from: Jack 1000;59519maybe the laws governing the Cable Retransmission Act of 1992 had to change

Need to go back to basic "Must Carry" with no fees.  Advertising is supposed to pay for content.  If the viewer needs to pay for content, then dump the commercials.

There were *lots* of questions that didn't get by the censors.  At least four from me.  

"Pennies a day"  How many content streams does TWC carry?  At a very minimum, 250.  What if each of these asked for "Just one more penny per subscriber"?  Well, that would be a $75.00 per month increase in cost to TWC which they would have to pass on to the customer.  

And WTMJ wants 'pennies' (plural).  !#!@#@ em.  Take them off the air.  

There is nothing on NBC or Channel 4 that is worth watching anyway.

I like that jbganswers site - not.  It tells you how you can send a comment to TWC, but nowhere does it allow you to leave a comment to JBG.  I'd really like to tell JBG how much I think TWC should be paying them.

There's NBC programming worth watching??

IMHO

As I probably posted last time something like this came up.  We should be paying TWC for the transport of the content.  Advertisers should be paying WTMJ (or whatever) for content itself.

Making a deal with TWC is in the best interest of a commercial content provider without regard to any carriage fee.  If WTMJ decides it does not want TWC to carry their programming, then they get nothing.  If they allow TWC to carry their signal for free, they still get wider distribution, and ostensibly more viewers, so they can charge advertisers more.  If TWC wants to pay them a small fee, that's just a bonus.

For WMJT to withhold their signal would be just *stupid*.

Quote from: Jack 1000;59374Hey Guys,

Just a heads up that TWC has Community Help Forums for all products and services.  You will need to register with a TWC My Services Account to post at the forums.  Or if you already have a My Services account, you can sign in with that.  Techs are there to answer questions and provide support for TWC Cable TV, Internet, Phone, Mobile Service, and My Services Account questions or problems.  It's a pretty cool community:

http://forums.timewarnercable.com/

Jack

Quite a bit more activity there since the last time I peeked in.  Seems somewhat disorganized though, could not find any way of just viewing 'unread posts' and no way of marking the forum as 'read'.   And it apparently covers all of TWC's geographic area -  Would be nice to have it more specific to SE Wisconsin.

Jack, do the people who can help actually read here, or would you be better off contacting TWC directly - phone, email, chat, or the tech direct forum over at DSLR?  The last helped me out of a problem a while ago that no one else seemed to be able to fix.

From what I have been reading on DSLReports, the white one has firmware version 1.0.6.8.  But don't worry, TWC will reflash it to 1.0.6.3 as soon as they notice.

I believe American does too.  In case it's closer....

Just note that the SB6120 is not on the TWC approved model list.  http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/residential-home/support/topics/internet/buy-your-modem.html