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Only on SDWhere I was at there was no issue on the HD channel that we were watching on. The only reason I heard about the outage was a neighbor called to ask if ours was out. |
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2014-Feb-4 12:58 pm
The SD feed- does anyone actually care?Seriously, who watches anything in SD anymore? I'm sure it would have been fixed a lot quicker had the HD feed gone down, as all the techs capable of fixing it would have been impacted too, thus providing a tiny bit of motivation. |
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Bloodsucker Superbowl commercial LOLReally TWC on the biggest day for TV watching your SD signal craps out? LOL better invest that money on more safety systems instead of putting vamps,P-ddidy,cruz,Jimmy Fallon,Duck Dynasty on a commercial. LOL |
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2014-Feb-4 1:38 pm
ReallyThis is the one day a year that every headend,uplink center, wherever has every possible feed (hd,sd, analog)being proactively monitored. Guess TWC didnt wanna pay an day overtime or their techs were busy watching porn. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA
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elray
Member
2014-Feb-4 1:45 pm
You can lead a horse...But you can't get them to punch in an HD channel number.
I shudder every time I see someone's huge flat screen tuned to an SD channel, then I realize that the content they're choosing isn't even worthy of Netflix, so I shrug and wander off muttering something about free will, cheap anesthesia, and the catastrophic consequences of the government monopoly on public education.
Meanwhile, the press and populist blogs enjoy another week of cable-bashing. |
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join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
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Re: The SD feed- does anyone actually care?Grandma is very upset she couldn't see Bruno Mars. |
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join:2005-07-12
Woodbridge, VA
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RockCake
Premium Member
2014-Feb-4 2:25 pm
The Broncos fans......probably saw it as a mercy killing. |
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join:2000-04-28
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to elray
Re: You can lead a horse...said by elray:But you can't get them to punch in an HD channel number. Dish took care of that as their different generations of HD receivers came along. On the previous generation, the SD and HD channels were duplicated side-by-side (ch 140 SD and 140 HD, for ESPN, were right next to one another). The "real" HD channel was way up high in the 9000 range as well. You also had a setting to show "only SD", "only HD", or both. On the latest generation, i.e. the Hopper, out of the box they have it defaulted to "only HD". Oh, you forgot to mention that SD channel on their huge flat screen being stretched to fill the screen !!  |
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Re: ReallyIt was fixed in an hour, that's not exactly a long turnaround time for an outage. Depending on what was broken about it.
Especially when the story doesn't offer up what was broken that they had to fix. But it's so fun to make assumptions and pretend than an hour is a long time. |
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Re: You can lead a horse...In all of AT&T's wisdom you have to tune to the 1000 channels for HD on uVerse.
You would think all of these morons would make it so HD settings on the receiver only = HD channels coming from it (when available). If I set the receiver to do 1080 widescreen, then I clearly dont want to see your 480 crap boxed up on my screen. |
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to Hall
TWC boxes also tune to the HD channel now if it is available and you're using an HD box, it's been that way for a while.
The people that had this outage were either using an SD only box, a TiVo, or some other tuner. |
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join:2002-12-04
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Re: ReallyI bet those companies who payed millions of dollars to put their commercials in front of eyes during that outage feel differently. |
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2014-Feb-4 4:09 pm
The advertisers choosing to advertise is not TWC's problem, they aren't paid to carry those ads and there obviously isn't any guarantee or SLA on retransmission. If anything they have to pay the TV stations for the privilege of carrying those adverts.
So who cares what the advertisers think? |
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An hour lost during the Super Bowl equals to billions of dollars lost down the road. Remember when the Ravens vs 49 electric issues and how much money some of the companies lost. |
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Re: You can lead a horse...Skippy, you are welcome to your opinion. Just don't try to force your option on me. I choose whether I watch SD or HD and I would not want to be forced to watch HD just because I happened to set my receiver to 1080 widescreen. |
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Re: The SD feed- does anyone actually care?People whose cable company charges more for HD channels/box and they don't want to pay extra on top of the $150 a month they already pay for cable service. Or maybe they can't spare the $700-800 for a giant flatscreen TV. |
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Re: You can lead a horse...Not every one has a huge flat screen. I know a guy who can just barely afford to pay for cable each month. After food and bills, he doesn't have much left over, so he's still using his old CRT TV rather than going out and buying an expensive flat screen TV. |
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join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA |
to smcallah
said by smcallah:TWC boxes also tune to the HD channel now if it is available and you're using an HD box, it's been that way for a while.
The people that had this outage were either using an SD only box, a TiVo, or some other tuner. Not in Los Angeles. |
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If you can "barely afford to pay for cable", then you shouldn't have it at all - for you surely aren't managing your finances properly, and you are unprepared for the next fiscal crisis that will cross your path.
Every person I know in the aforementioned category you brought up, has more than one flat-screen TV, and those are second-generation purchases.
My fellow miserly friends I know who still have tubes, simply don't see the point of HD, and are waiting for their CRT's to die before they spend their hard-earned money on a replacement, though I still question their desire for cable. Most of them have HD STB's, which down-convert the HD signal to composite, the result of last year's $1 DVR special. But even though they are wise enough to know to watch the HD channels, I don't think any care for spectator sports. |
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Re: The SD feed- does anyone actually care?Time Warner doesn't charge a penny more if you have an HD set top terminal versus a SD set top box. Cisco and Samsung don't even make SD boxes anymore. |
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2014-Feb-4 9:06 pm
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so naive did it occur to you that there are very poor people that need a tv cause they cant afford a pc or tablet and use tv as a primary means of cheap entertainment and information like when the next wild fire or drought hits LA. just because one is poor doesnt mean he doesnt deserve to watch the biggest sporting event of the year. there are places in the world where a village gathers around a TV to watch the super bowl. just cause u may live in a more affluent community like santa monica, you're clearly forgetting those in poor areas of the city/county. whatever the case time warner screwed up big time on this one. said by elray:If you can "barely afford to pay for cable", then you shouldn't have it at all - for you surely aren't managing your finances properly, and you are unprepared for the next fiscal crisis that will cross your path.
Every person I know in the aforementioned category you brought up, has more than one flat-screen TV, and those are second-generation purchases.
My fellow miserly friends I know who still have tubes, simply don't see the point of HD, and are waiting for their CRT's to die before they spend money on a replacement. Most of them have HD STB's, which down-convert the HD signal to composite, the result of last year's $1 DVR special. But even though they are wise enough to know to watch the HD channels, I don't think any care for spectator sports. |
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join:2004-06-21
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Re: You can lead a horse...said by Hall:said by elray:But you can't get them to punch in an HD channel number. Dish took care of that as their different generations of HD receivers came along. On the previous generation, the SD and HD channels were duplicated side-by-side (ch 140 SD and 140 HD, for ESPN, were right next to one another). The "real" HD channel was way up high in the 9000 range as well. You also had a setting to show "only SD", "only HD", or both. On the latest generation, i.e. the Hopper, out of the box they have it defaulted to "only HD". Oh, you forgot to mention that SD channel on their huge flat screen being stretched to fill the screen !! my grandpa only has SD boxes I tell him to call for the credit.... |
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join:2005-11-23
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to Rekrul
Anyone who can't afford a decent TV shouldn't be paying for cable! |
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BiggA to pb2k
Premium Member
2014-Feb-4 11:40 pm
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Re: The SD feed- does anyone actually care?Exactly. I saw the headline and was like "HOLY ****", then I saw it was SD only, and realize that NO ONE CARES. Such a non-story. I bet the people in the old people's home were upset LOL. |
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join:2010-10-16
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to elray
Re: You can lead a horse...I still use a SD tube TV in my living room (Toshiba 27"), I have my DirecTV Genie hooked up to it and it tunes to the HD channels by default. I just deal with the letter boxing that comes with the widescreen programming on an older set. As long as it works, just use it until it dies. I have two other TVs, both of them HD.
I have older gaming systems I like to play. I just don't get to play them right now with grandma in the living room and with the carpal tunnel. |
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I am not forcing crap on anyone, but if you set up your TV for HD then you would expect HD by default and conveniently available.
If you are the 1 out of 1,000,000 people that set your HD TV up and want SD on it then too bad. Why should the other 99,999,999 deal with that stupidity for the one.
And I will say, if you choose to watch SD when HD is available to you for the same content on an HD TV, then you either A.) Are an idiot or B.) Just being a PITA to be a PITA (yes I am judging) as there is no logical argument you could possibly make to choose SD over HD on an HD tv. |
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join:2000-05-31
Reno, NV |
to elray
If you can "barely afford to pay for cable", then you shouldn't have it at all - for you surely aren't managing your finances properly, and you are unprepared for the next fiscal crisis that will cross your path. As much as people love to bitch about their cable bills, cable is still a very cheap form of entertainment, relative to the cost of food, housing, and other vices folks might involve themselves in when they're bored. |
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join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA |
to OneTen
Re: so naiveAccess to information about wild fires and droughts does not require cable TV.
If you're "very poor", you do not need cable.
We are not affluent, nor do we live in an affluent neighborhood. Nice try. We just don't live above our means.
I work with the poor on a near-daily basis. Most are victims of public "education", after which it is a major battle to train them the fundamentals of personal finance and household budgeting, but we reach a few of them. |
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Re: You can lead a horse...Indeed, it is, for the average household.
But not for the very poor.
That idle time would be better spent on education and a second or third job. |
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join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA |
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Re: so naiveThe public schools here are broken, if I had kids, I'd send them to Catholic school.
There is no way I'd send my kids to the public schools here in Springfield. |
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