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Comcast of Ocean County
join:2005-12-26
Brick, NJ | reply to patspub
Re: Summer Olympics: Soccer and Basketball channels anyone?
I'll definitely be checking out the HD Olympic Basketball Channel when it comes on the air at 2:30 a.m. EDT. Thanks for making this possible Comcast. |
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Hound
join:2006-03-08
Princeton, NJ | reply to patspub
Patspub,
I will look tonight
and let you know. |
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intokkabire
join:2004-01-04
Burlington, MA | reply to Travelfan1
I have them in HD. Chelmsford, MA |
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patspub
join:2005-02-10
Philadelphia, PA | reply to Hound
Thanks Hound. By the way we do not have these 2 Olympic channels here in Philly yet. |
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Chad473
join:2007-12-18
Lancaster, PA | reply to Travelfan1
nothing here yet. I'd imagine if we don't have them by tomorrow, we aren't getting them. |
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timsdabomb18
join:2008-01-28
Essex, CT | reply to Travelfan1
are they going to be coming to the Clinton C.T. system? |
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reelbigfish
join:2002-06-06
Boston, MA
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| I wouldn't hold your breath in Clinton, you have the 2nd fewest HD channels of all Comcast headends in CT. The only one worse is Groton which is still a 550Mhz system. Funny thing is Branford is 650Mhz just like Clinton, but it has 24 HD channels versus your 17. Until SDV or a digital transition takes place on any 650Mhz system or lower, you won't be seeing much more HD. Hartford is 750Mhz and has 42 HD channels and Hartford is 860Mhz with 42 HDs. The 860Mhz systems probably still have room to go where as the 750Mhz systems are getting pretty full. Anything less is out of space. |
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markofmayhem
join:2004-04-08
Pittsburgh, PA
| SDV will not be implemented on system lower than 750. The cost to save the bandwidth of 1 QAM channel is not going to be absorbed by Comcast. 870 systems save, on average, 4 QAM channels with SDV which will be dedicated to VoD and Docsis 3.0. SDV rollouts will be alongside Docsis 3.0. HD will come from analog reclaimation and bandwidth expansion to 870. The future goal is 1ghz systems all around with the 750 and below spectrum dedicated to non-switched video; 750-870 will be VoD and switched video; 870 and above will be data (internet and phone) allowing enough data bandwidth to penetrate small and medium sized businesses. |
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rej4sl66
@comcast.net | so what system is Minneapolis-St.Paul on ? I heard rumors we were going to SDV on the forums but no idea if we are - but we did not get the two Olympic Channels but we do have a full line up of HDTV channels bar those two |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs:
2 edits | reply to Travelfan1
650 MHz is a weird one. What line gear does that? Older Magnavox, Texscan/Pathmaker, etc?
There's some old 550 MHz C-Cor in PA yet. Old Adelphia stuff.
Why not use SDV on a 550 or 650 MHz system while designers layout 1 GHz plans, do purchasing, and install it. Those phases take a long time, so SDV could hold them off a little bit. Or do you think if the bandwidth is that low, they are using old architectures with much larger Homes Passed per node, hence very minor if any SDV bandwidth savings. |
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markofmayhem
join:2004-04-08
Pittsburgh, PA
| said by cypherstream  :Or do you think if the bandwidth is that low, they are using old architectures with much larger Homes Passed per node, hence very minor if any SDV bandwidth savings. Bingo
It also comes down to less switching possible. Look, SDV can't make something from nothing. You CAN NOT have more video channels than total room. SDV is to maximize the space available for TEMPORARY space, NOT linear channels. That's Docsis bonds and VoD, not new HD channels. If a cable operator made available more channels than it could carry, it would loose subscribers left and right. You may not watch WORD, but someone does. You may not watch ShopNBC, but it only takes ONE viewer. You may never tune to FoxNews or CNN or MSNBC... etc.
The switched video is for extremely low viewership channels to make space for VoD streams. That stops that "communication error" after "One Moment Please" is displayed for a long time, because it can't find an empty slot. A 650 system just doesn't have the space. Gaining one QAM in switches isn't going to afford the ability to put high demand channels on the system. The switch has to be between low demand and temporary or their will never be "switching". |
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Hound
join:2006-03-08
Princeton, NJ | reply to patspub
We have Boomerang on channel 105. I do not
have access to it. It
is part of digital plus. |
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Bradshaw
@comcast.net | reply to Polish Jim
I am in Flint, MI, and I talked to a rep who stated that not every market is carrying these channels. It would be nice to get the Soccer and Basketball channels though! |
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mikedz4
join:2003-04-14
Weirton, WV | reply to Travelfan1
hound are you sure its not bloomberg? |
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patspub
join:2005-02-10
Philadelphia, PA | reply to Hound
Thank's Hound for the info. Princeton isn't to far from Philly maybe we will be receiving the Boomerang channel here soon. |
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Bronx101
@comcast.net
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Comcast 222 Olympic BB in Maryland-is anyone getting it?
Montgomery county maryland comcast channel 222 is supposed to be nbc olympics basketball HD but it is jumbled for 2 days. 221 is soccer and it works great but not 222.
i hanged on the phone for ten minutes to comcast and gave up.
does anyone else have the same problem? |
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RouterRooter
join:2001-11-22
Rockville, MD | Works here in Rockville, Bronx. Appears filtered to me like they didn't want to devote a lot of bandwidth. Has anyone yet determined how they've mapped the new channels to frequencies?
RR |
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neil0311
join:2005-07-24
Marietta, GA | reply to Travelfan1
Re: Summer Olympics: Soccer and Basketball channels anyone?
Nothing new here in the Atlanta area. Just Universal HD and USA-HD with coverage in addition to NBC HD. |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs:
1 edit | reply to Travelfan1
Nothing new in Reading PA. That doesn't surprise me however.
Would of thought with 12 MHz of purely unused spectrum available, without reorganization, they could of spared 6 MHz for 2 special HD's for a few weeks.
But what if they put it on demand? The Comcast Central: Olympics page is nice, and takes you to on demand. Why can't they put the HD content from those channels on demand, only about 15~30 minutes behind due to transcoding/delivery to the VOD server. That way the bandwidth is not used up unless someone in the node actually wants to watch it. (Poor man's SDV). |
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plat2on1
join:2002-08-21
Hopewell Junction, NY
clubs: | reply to Travelfan1
we have these channels on on ch73 here, clear qam. |
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