Milwaukee HDTV User Group

It appears that now Spectrum includes the modem again.  Now savings owning anymore.

I don't watch a lot of network TV.  I do watch football.  Who is telling these local advertisers that it is a good idea to run their spots in SD?  Even worse, I have seen some that mush have been shot in least widescreen so they are letterboxed.   They look awful and distract from the message.

All the national spots are HD.

Are SD commercials cheaper?

Are you experiencing packet loss?  //www.pingtest.com

I had an issue like yours, but I was also experiencing random times of heavy packet loss.  It took several months.  As it was said before, if you don't complain agian right away, the close the ticket and you have to start over.  I had to be very persistant.  Be sure to get a ticket number, so you don't have to start over.

Eventually, I was given numbers to call directly to the level 3 people who helped me.  I don't know what they did, but is was their equipment somewhere on the network and they eventually  found it.

This is also why I have decided to keep renting my modem.  One less thing they can pass the buck to.

Thanks,

We are having the same problem.  Nice to know we are not crazy.

One thing to be careful when moving the modem is if you have whole house DVR.  They installed a trap on the modem coax going from our main splitter where the cable goes into the house.

It is also well known that people remember bad service more than good, so the bad picture quality is what will stick.

It is at the point that I won't watch that station.

I would like there to be a legal standard for HD.  A bitrate spec or something.   There is no way we getting HD.

Honda should ask for their money back on their spots.  Channel 58 ruined them.

I tried watching the the game OTA and there was no difference with TWC.  Too bad everyone is too cheap to pay for an uncompressed signal from Channel 58 to TWC.

I refuse to watch this channel unless I have to.

I swapped the client box for a second DVR and they can see each other's recordings.

The boxes are slow.

I will have to look at  my bill, believe that the cost is the same as having a regular DVR.

I had some misunderstanding about how it works.  I replaced our main DVR and had a standard box added in the basement.  The basement one can only play recorded shows on the main box, just like on demand stuff.  You can't pause live tv.  Today, I am having that box replaced with a DVR.  

They tell me that when you press list, you get to choose which DVR's list of shows you want to see.  You have all functionality except you can't delete or make a recording go on another DVR.

So far, the Cisco box does not seem quite as responsive as the SA box.  Not that I hate it, but things like horizontal scrolling are slower.

Also, getting any whole house equipment requires a tech visit.  They do not have them available at retail location.

Getting it installed today.  A-la-carte.  That is not part of signature home.

I use the analog cable on one basement TV.  I also have a tuner in my computer, however, I find the QAM HD signals used more.

Quote from: ArgMeMatey;56290I won't speak for anyone else, but when a station says they're "HD", I expect a nominal TV (Like my 40" LCD) to have a picture that is nothing short of fantastic.  Sports or otherwise, things looked better to me before broadcasters started loading on subchannels and cutting the rate on the "main" channel (I won't stoop to calling it "HD").  For example, ABC-12 looks better than NBC-4 and CBS-58.

Hear, hear.

Quote from: SRW1000;56287I wish it took a magnifying glass to see these problems.  Did you look at the screen capture I posted?  How could you not see the flaws in that picture?  They're not slight imperfections, they're ugly and obvious.

And unnecessary.

Scott

It shows the disconnect between the providers and the consumers.

I completely agree with you, Scott.  On any faster moving shot, the blocking was bad.  The cuts when the CBS logo moves on the screen are really bad.  Advertisers are aware of this.  Notice commercials don't often have fast motion anymore.

Before the digital transition and there were not a lot of subchannels, this did not happen.  The original specification for digital TV bandwith was 1 HD channel or 4 SD channels.  Now we are squeezing 1 HD plus all the sub channels.  Yes, there is picture degradation.

Signal strength has nothing to do with what the screen capture shows, it has to do with the bitrate.  Signal errors look entirely different.

However, it appears a lot of watchers are like my wife.  She insists she can't see the difference when I switch between SD and HD versions of the same show.

Mine was running slow yesterday.  All the speed tests were saying 2-4Mbps.  I call tech support and voila, full turbo speed.  They claimed they did nothing.  Hmm...

or This as a optical to digital coax converter.