Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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Re: Hmm...
said by plat2on1  :man you are one piece of work...  Thanks. I'd tend to put much more reliance however in my own experience as an actual user of the service rather than some of those above who, by their own admission..don't even have the service but yet who choose to bash it.
Now THAT is what i'd call a real piece of work.
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plat2on1
join:2002-08-21
Hopewell Junction, NY
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| said by Rick :said by plat2on1 :man you are one piece of work... Thanks. I'd tend to put much more reliance however in my own experience as an actual user of the service rather than some of those above who, by their own admission..don't even have the service but yet who choose to bash it. Now THAT is what i'd call a real piece of work. evidence be damned! comcast is great! |
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voyager6868
join:2003-01-29
Lynnwood, WA | reply to Rick
Someone owns Comcast stock. |
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Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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said by plat2on1 :said by Rick :said by plat2on1 :man you are one piece of work... Thanks. I'd tend to put much more reliance however in my own experience as an actual user of the service rather than some of those above who, by their own admission..don't even have the service but yet who choose to bash it. Now THAT is what i'd call a real piece of work. evidence be damned! comcast is great! Evidence? I don't need any evidence. I have the service and it works great.
I'm sorry if your experience has been less than satisfactory..but mine hasn't.
I have yet to see a HD picture that looks anything close to what has been presented in these "news" stories.
My HD pictures look great. Awesome in fact.
And so too is my 30,000k HSI speeds.
Sorry if that seems to trouble you. But that's how comcast performs for me.
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tiger72
SexaT duorP
Premium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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 ·T-Mobile US
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| said by Rick :Evidence? I don't need any evidence. Bush Doctrine strikes again! |
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wolfhouse
join:2001-03-01
Union City, NJ
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I have Comcast, and the HD is really bad.
Can't get satellite because of trees arouns, and FIOS Tv does not carry the NHL center ice package. So i ma stuck with lousy Comcast. In spite of cramming lots of HD on little bandwidth, they still have an issue with capacity. I was told, sorry we don't carry the HD game of the package... They are terrible. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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said by Rick :said by plat2on1 :man you are one piece of work... Thanks. I'd tend to put much more reliance however in my own experience as an actual user of the service rather than some of those above who, by their own admission..don't even have the service but yet who choose to bash it. Now THAT is what i'd call a real piece of work. Ok.. I'll chime in..
I just went from Wideopenwest to CC. I got the HD pack as well. Since I have no standard to compare to, other then the stuff people say and post on the internet (just like when everyone was saying how Sunrocket was GREAT... NOT!), I have to go with my experience so far. My channels look outstanding. I just recently installed a HDMI cable and seen even a better difference just on standard channels. Getting over the air HD channels will never compare to getting them through numerous coax connections, splitters, etc.. so that's apples and oranges as far as that goes. Hmm.. OTA HD vs miles of coax, jumpers and old inhome coax.. time to up the meds if I expect them to have the same end result.
This all sorta reminds me of my first HD LCD tv. Picture looked so great in the store. The brightness, clarity and sound. Ok.. sold me.. so take it home, hook it up to my "coax".. Dang.. must have got a tv that's been dropped. Picture looked so "putty", jagged and blah.. But tune in some OTA HD channels and holy crap batman! CC may be crap but short of not having a life that revolves around watching the History channel in HD.. I'm more then happy with what I get and the price (WOW winback deal), the price is worth getting a drop out from time to time. Sorta like the FiOS fanboys who will put up with billing issues and the aholes at Verizons customer service department just to get that 15mbps HSI and a little better HD experience. Sorry guys put some of you are pushing this a little over the edge. Well.. time to take the dog for walk. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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said by Rick :Evidence? I don't need any evidence. I have the service and it works great. I'm sorry if your experience has been less than satisfactory..but mine hasn't. I have yet to see a HD picture that looks anything close to what has been presented in these "news" stories. My HD pictures look great. Awesome in fact. And so too is my 30,000k HSI speeds. Sorry if that seems to trouble you. But that's how comcast performs for me. One person being happy does not constitute a valid statistical survey. Let's add your obvious bias and you can hardly be neutral about the matter. |
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Hes a troll
@rr.com | reply to Rick
The guys avatar says comcast rick, and we are supposed to take his word on a comcast article. Yeah right, troll somewhere else. |
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Thisisdigital
@tds.net
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This is all digital, so what you're saying isn't correct. It shouldn't matter how many times the signal is split or anything like analog. Either the signal is there, or it is not. I find is laughable that people go out and buy Monster brand HDMI over a cheaper HDMI cable... The signal is DIGITAL! As long as the signal gets there, you're gonna have an image!
You would be correct about the over compressed HD channels comcast is offering. They would still look better than SD to most people. Compared to OTHER HD from other providers, they're crap. There are two different issues going on here. There's the "this is good enough of a picture" issue, and then there's "How does this HD picture compared to a standard, reference HD picture." Two issues. |
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Ytsejamer1
join:2008-01-18
Somersworth, NH
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That is the reason I kicked Comcast to the curb for TV...that and more channels being taken away, crap shopping channels being added, and prices going up on top of all that...
Watching HD on Comcast varied...sometimes it was fine, but other times it was completely unwatchable. Especially with action scenes. Some channels altogether just would just go black, then pixelate back into view. Lovely.
The internet and phone has been rock solid, but tv service has been lackluster. |
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | reply to Rick
I agree rick. Some of these people have nothing better to do than hate on something they done even understand. |
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cuda
@sbcglobal.net
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wrong, digital signals suffer from loss and deterioration. Noise interference also can cause loss of bits and will cause the error correcting software to have to re-stream data causing freezing while being rebuffered. Even through fiber there can be loss and noise caused by things such as reflection, refraction and certain types of frequency interference. Every time there is a splice in the fiber or a connector..etc, it does affect the data stream quality which can be degraded to the point that a digital amplifier can not repair it. When that happens... your screen will start dropping pieces of the image and cause a blocky effect until the error correction can re-buffer enough good data which is when you see a frozen image for a second or 2. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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said by Thisisdigital :
This is all digital, so what you're saying isn't correct. It shouldn't matter how many times the signal is split or anything like analog. Either the signal is there, or it is not. I find is laughable that people go out and buy Monster brand HDMI over a cheaper HDMI cable... The signal is DIGITAL! As long as the signal gets there, you're gonna have an image!
You would be correct about the over compressed HD channels comcast is offering. They would still look better than SD to most people. Compared to OTHER HD from other providers, they're crap. There are two different issues going on here. There's the "this is good enough of a picture" issue, and then there's "How does this HD picture compared to a standard, reference HD picture." Two issues.
Ok.. read what CUDA said.. On top of that. I'm not buying into that "digital" theory your holding on to. That allows the provider to CRAM more crap onto existing coax. People think just because it's digital, your guaranteed the best picture no matter what. In a perfect lab. Yes. To someones house a few miles from the node, no. Digital from my 20+ years of communications experience just means using less bandwidth and putting more data on the same size pipe. Didn't make it any better, just more of it. Garbage in, Garbage out. The end result is only as good as the highway it's riding on. But now, that's just me and I don't have a degree in electrical engineering to back it up..  |
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Dilligas
join:2007-10-30
Windsor, ON
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Actually I am not defending comcast but the images presented looks like pixelization issue with signal and not the compression.
Honestly I see no diffference with comcast or any cable company for that matter along with the satellite...they all look relitively fine to me...plus the kiddies cant get over the fact coax works just as well, not every company can lose billions investing into a complete fiber network just so joe blow can sit 5 feet away from a tv set and compare pictures. |
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emptywig
Huh? What?
Premium
join:2002-08-05
Pasadena, TX
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The only thing for which your experience is evidence is how the service is in your home. You cannot extrapolate your experience to Comcast markets across the country. I'd bet there's far less demand for HD in Waterbury than there is in more highly populated areas.
Please come to Houston and I will show you pictures that look every bit as pixelated as those in the news stories. I'll show them to you any day, every day. I'll take you next door to my neighbor who also gets the same crappy pixelation. And the folks who live behind me, and everyone on the block, and all over the city.
I'm happy you are getting a great picture, but your experience is not the same as everyone else.
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emptywig
Huh? What?
Premium
join:2002-08-05
Pasadena, TX | reply to Thisisdigital
The same kind of signal goes in one end of that coax whether its "digital" or "analog."
wig
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weartherman
@comcast.net
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boy someone is stupid its the sheilding in the cable that can make a diffarnts if the signal is there yes it does matter how many times you split it and you will get the same quality pic weather you have dish or cable because either way you have to go through coax and dish usally uses the cable wiring anyways and if you have dish i hope its not down pooring if so just wait to see what happens to your pic now |
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