rawboard
join:2004-08-05
Woodbury, NJ
| reply to Joedub
Re: Comcast says no HD boxes until possibly February???
Well good news. On Tuesday I found out that I can indeed goto other local offices. I don't know why the lady at the woodbury office said I couldn't. So ofcoarse I decided to check out other comcast offices. Luck was on myside, because apparently Tuesday is the day of the week the comcast offices around here get there stuff.
So I went to a pitman office. Really nice lady there. She tells me, her delivery just got there 10 minutes ago, and altough she ordered 10 HD boxes, they only got one. So I got the one and only box fopr the week potman NJ was getting. Still I needed another. Went to the franklinville office. This lady was not so nice. I think they also got some HD boxes, but she after she found out I wasn't from that serving area, she told me no. I then went to the turnersville office. They did have some HD boxes, but were on a waiting list, so i couldn't get them. However I ended up getting the DVR box there.
BTW, according to the lady in the pitman office, the DVR boxes are in short supply too. She didn't have any delivered (which is why I didn't get one there) |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
Premium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
clubs:  | Alright so I guess I'm taking a road trip on Tuesday and I'm going to visit my Avenel office and the Union office to get one. I called em up today and both were out of stock, they both said Tuesday come and see. |
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mdelcorso
@comcast.net | I just picked up a HD box from the Union, NJ office. They just got 4 crates of them in today. |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
Premium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
clubs: | I called them up again, they said I have to have a service call to get that box installed?!?!?? I'll drop by the Union office tomorrow morning and see. |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
Premium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
clubs: | reply to rawboard
Alright, my dad couldn't wait so I called them back again. The lady on the phone said they could ship the box directly to me, so I ordered it. $9.99 for shipping, getting the DCH3200. 3-5 business day shipping. Woot! |
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rob316
join:2005-10-17
Carteret, NJ | Thanks for the heads up Sansri, I called Comcast on the Dec 27th and will be receiving the DCH3200 box for my son's new Westinghouse on Jan 3rd via UPS.
Rob |
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rob316
join:2005-10-17
Carteret, NJ
 ·Comcast
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Just an update Comcast came this morning and swapped out the DCH 3200 with a DCH 3416. I was having an issue with Cartoon network and a couple other channels not coming in like SCi-Fi. Well everything worked out the bix is great and all channles come in. |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
Premium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
clubs: | Are you getting free DVR service for 3 months? For the inconvenience, Comcast gave me DVR free for 3 months. |
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rob316
join:2005-10-17
Carteret, NJ | 6 months, I have 3 other tv's hooked up to comcast and also a Triple Play subscriber , so they hooked me up. |
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Richie61
join:2006-02-14
Jacksonville, FL | reply to rawboard
So what can I get with just a QAM tuner on COMCAST in Jacksonville, Fl??? Can I get all the Locals in HD? |
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Pimpinelli
@comcast.net | reply to rawboard
Just picked up hd box however they did not have any hdmi cables and told me they are back ordered but that I should buy one. They cost $60 to $80 for a 6 footer. They should supply them but you know Comcast. Mike |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs:
2 edits | No they cost $5-15 for 6 footer.
»www.monoprice.com |
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TurboDan
join:2006-06-08
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
| Cables at stores like BB and CC are the biggest scam going. A couple times, I've told people looking at cables to go to Monoprice, eHDMI or other sites to get them. One time, a sales guy got visibly angry at me.
Don't like it? Don't gouge customers. |
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bicker
join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA | reply to Pimpinelli
Comcast is under no obligation to supply HDMI cables -- not every area does. IMHO, the component cable work just as well, if not better. |
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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
clubs:
·Comcast
| Depends on what the receiver end wants. Also, most STBs won't output anything greater than 480p over companent (worse, even if the STB will do it, quite a few TVs have issue with greater-than-480p over component, especially lower-priced HDTVs). For this reason, for STBs, I prefer HDMI over component (but CableCARD, if the TV supports it, over HDMI, due to differences between the scalers in the TV and STB; usually, the TV has the better scaler). |
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Pictor Guy
join:2004-06-21
Sammamish, WA
1 edit | said by PGHammer  :Depends on what the receiver end wants. Also, most STBs won't output anything greater than 480p over companent (worse, even if the STB will do it, quite a few TVs have issue with greater-than-480p over component, especially lower-priced HDTVs). For this reason, for STBs, I prefer HDMI over component (but CableCARD, if the TV supports it, over HDMI, due to differences between the scalers in the TV and STB; usually, the TV has the better scaler). I have yet to run into a TV that will only do 480p over component. The same goes for STBs. Especially if either has HDMI as an option. The cap on component is generally 1080i and for some TVs it is 720p, although component can carry 1080p I don't think I've ever seen it in use on commercial TVs. Even my more than 9 year old Panny HDTV supports 1080i over component and it has only one option for HD input. |
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bicker
join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA | That's my experience as well. Component and HDMI are most often mostly comparable in most every way, video-wise. |
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schja01
I need to get a life.
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-27
Morton Grove, IL
clubs:
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T Midwest
| said by bicker :That's my experience as well. Component and HDMI are most often mostly comparable in most every way, video-wise. It's a lot easier to fish a HDMI cable up through a wall than a bulky component bundle. |
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bicker
join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA | True, though fishing cable is beyond what most of us attempt to do. Generally, the most common problem I see with this sort of thing involved HDCP handshake problems, which happens only with HDMI. |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs: | reply to Pictor Guy
My TV supports the following resolutions Samsung HP-T4254 Plasma 42"
Component (Red/Green/Blue)
480i
480p
720p
1080i
HDMI (or DVI to HDMI adapter)
480p
720p
1080i
VGA
1024x768
800x600
640x480 |
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