meskinct
Mad Scientist at Work
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join:2002-01-07
Danbury, CT
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| HD Replacements When Olympics Are Over?
So what do you think Comcast will replace the HD Olympic Basketball and Soccer with when the Olympics are over?
I have my wishes but does anyone have an official word?
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Greg_Z
Premium
join:2001-08-08
Springfield, IL | Probably nothing, and just remove those channels from the lineup. |
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reelbigfish
join:2002-06-06
Boston, MA | Why not FX HD, Speed HD or Fox News HD? They just signed a deal with those channels. |
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bicker
join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA | Yup, they'll almost surely re-use that bandwidth, perhaps few new channels, perhaps for other bandwidth needs. |
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Greg_Z
Premium
join:2001-08-08
Springfield, IL | reply to reelbigfish
I would definitely want FX here in Springfield, but Fox & CNN could go. My wife wants E! in HD, and I personally would want to see Encore get on the bandwagon for HD broadcasts. |
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reelbigfish
join:2002-06-06
Boston, MA | Well, E! is owned by Comcast, so most systems should carry it once there is room. |
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Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL | reply to bicker
they may just taken the bandwidth away from PPV, ondemand, PPV sports. |
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bicker
join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA
| Not here. There are some frequencies recently freed up by moving analog channels to digital. I suspect that as soon as the Olympics are over, they'll start engineering a new use for this bandwidth, either new channels (I'm hoping for FX HD) or other new services or service enhancements needing bandwidth. |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
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join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
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2 edits | reply to meskinct
It's only a few weeks, some areas are using a temporary reserved frequency for these two HD's, but after they cease broadcasting, they will go back into 'reserved' state for future SDV or DOCSIS 3.
A lot of the frequency maps (whether currently occupied or NOT), are already reserved months in advance for certain services, or even as temporary migration slots for major QAM restructuring that cannot get done in one nights maintenance window. |
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luckykevin
join:2005-04-30
Arlington, TX
|  cypher my system is almost finsihed with the 870mhz upgrade
we now have
all testing and final qam setup
all qam 256
121-1 cnbc hd+
121-2 olympic basketball
121-3 olympic soccer
122 digital phone
126-1 versus golf hd
126-2 history hd
126-3 usa hd
127-1 tbs hd
127-2 cnn hd
127-3 fsn hd
128-1 hgtv hd
128-2 food hd
128-3 a&e hd
129-1 discovery hd
129-2 animsl planet hd
129-3 national geographic hd
130 digital phone
135 spectrum alayzer return path now
we still have 15 open qams |
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CRP
Comcast of Ocean County
join:2005-12-26
Brick, NJ | I would hope that longterm replacements were in order. I'd love to see TLC HD, FX HD & Spike HD. |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
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join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
clubs: | I would love to have some new HD channel. Anything. |
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Mgsports
join:2004-11-11
Olathe, KS
| reply to meskinct
People in Olathe/MO are waiting for Analog channels of 56 and 68 be deleted becuase they are already on Digital so they space would open up for more HD or SD Channels like SHOPNBC,Fox Movie Channel,Bloomberg News,Reelztv and so on.
Oh Comcast has a deal with CNBC HD. |
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ak3883
join:2005-08-20
Bensalem, PA | reply to luckykevin
All that room and they are still shoving 3 HD channels into one QAM slot, interesting. |
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bicker
join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA
| I suspect the 3:1 muxing, in cases where bandwidth is available, is a product of the fact that that is how those three channels are delivered to the local head-in, from the HITS. There are a lot of considerations, all the way through the delivery chain. |
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luckykevin
join:2005-04-30
Arlington, TX | we do not use hits we are a twc system |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
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join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
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1 edit | Could of fooled me, posting in the Comcast forums!
But I was going to say, you don't need HITS "Headend in the Sky" for 3:1. Much of that comes straight off the CRAN in multicast digital video streams pre-packaged and all ready to go. The headends just pick off the multicast and convert it to RF.
But if your TWC, that explains the *different* 3:1 muxes. VS Golf, History and USA together eh? Hows the quality? Wonder if they are using the Imagine Communications encoders over there at TWC.
Oh and I remember you said they upgraded to newer Motorola nodes? That's interesting, I would of thought TWC would pick Scientific Atlanta, exclusively. All TWC plant's I've seen use SA line gear. |
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luckykevin
join:2005-04-30
Arlington, TX
| we are the largest time warner market with all motorola equipment were getting the dcx boxes next year.
the picture on all my hd channels are decent we dont get the microblocking like the hits muxes.
we were comcast until august 1st 2006 when twc swapped markets with comcast
we did not get alot of channels until twc took over
cypher how long does it take to finish the upgrade after the reverse the spectrum analyzer. |
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