rv65
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Re: [TWC] New HD channels for San Diego
Fine Living
Fit TV, DIY
National Geographic
Biography
History International
Ovation
GAC
G4 Video Game TV
Boomerang
WAM
Bloomberg Channel
i-Life TV
Encore Action
Encore Love Stories
Encore Mystery
Encore True Stories
Fox Movie Channel
Sundance Channel
IFC
IndiePlex
Flix
These channels are going SDV. So it looks like more HD channels are going to be added via SDV. Except for KUSI HD and XHDTV HD. Our MNTV affilate XHDTV still doesn't have their digital signal up yet. They are licensed in Tecate, Mexico which means they don't have to follow our laws in regards to DTV. XETV the CW affiliate has HD. Once XHDTV goes digital they will start airing HD MNTV and HD syndication. |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA
| TWC San Diego is now deploying Tuning Converters for CableCard HDTV's. It's similar to an HD box but doesn't have all the Digital cable features. It is however 2 way capable so it can handle SDV. Who knows how much SDV capacity they have. They have been really nice in adding new HD channels but there is always more. None of the QAM channels exceed 770 MHz. They most likely have an 870 MHz system but only use a portion of it. One rep said they had a 1 GHz cable plant. If that was true then they should add more HD channels. At least they would be better prepared for Docsis 2.0. |
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motorola870
join:2008-12-07
Arlington, TX
| well my motorola area still has test patterns on 2(57MHz) and 120(771MHz).
We only have 4 VOD QAM's
1 H.S.I
2 VOIP
18 HD QAM's
here is how my twc area goes
2 ANALOG TEST PATTERN
3-76 ANALOG
77 8 SD
78 9 SD
79 11 SD
80 8 SD + 48 MUSIC
81 11 SD
82 11 SD
83 VOD
84 VOD
85 VOD
86 VOD
87 13 SD
88 12 SD
89 DOCSIS 2.0
90 12 SD
91 14 SD
92 10 SD
93 11 SD
94 Digital phone
95 public access
96 religious access
97 County college
98 Local ISD
99 UT Arlington
100 Digtial phone
101 10 DS
102 12 DS
103 3 HD (mux)
104 2 HD (mux)
105 2 HD + 1 SD
106 13 SD
107 2 HD + 2 SD
108 3 HD (mux)
109 3 HD (mux)
110 3 HD (mux)
111 11 SD
112 13 SD
113 11 SD
114 10 SD
115 10 SD
116 11 SD
117 11 SD
118 3 HD (mux)
119 Local DS/FETN/EAS Digital
120 ANALOG TEST PATTERN
121 TEST DIGITAL QAM
122 UNKNOWN interference
123 11 SD
124 9 SD
125 TEST DIGITAL QAM
126 3 HD (mux)
127 3 HD (mux)
128 3 HD (mux)
129 3 HD (mux)
130 3 HD (mux)
131 3 HD (mux)
132 3 HD (mux)
133 3 HD (mux)
134 3 HD (mux)
135 3 HD (mux) |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA | reply to rv65
How can you get all the QAM information like that. |
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motorola870
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Arlington, TX | cable boxes and qam capable tv plus neighbor has H.S.I. |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA
| The northern ex adelphia has less HD channels since they don't have SDV. I bet they'll need a big band SDV solution since that works on both Moto an SA/Cisco. The Main TWC headend is a Cisco/SA headend that has SDV. The SA areas use a Cisco/SA SDV solution that doesn't work with Moto headends. I'm in a Cisco/SA area. San Diego is testing the SMT-H3090 but I don't know if they started deploying them. They are probably deploying the SMT-H3050. Not sure what they are using. Probably the underpowered POS 8300/8240HDC and the 4250/4240HDC. The Moto boxes might be deployed in the ex adelphia area but I think they will use all Samsung boxes. The Samsung boxes are tru2way so they can deploy it in moto areas. |
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Carlsbad, CA
| Peering into your crystal ball, do you have any idea when the ex-Adelphia area (Carlsbad) might get SDV and the Samsung boxes? We still have the Moto devices and quite honestly, I have been very happy with the level of service we have been receiving. Mind you, I am always open to additional HD channels... but then again, who is not? |
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rv65
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| They are testing a different kind of Samsung box. Model numbers are 3260 and 3270. It's in the final stages of testing. It should come out by the end of April. I also heard they are testing Moto boxes. The Moto box is probably the DCX series which is an OCAP/tru2way box. The DCX can work in the ex Adelphia and TWC San Diego. I don't work for them of course. The DCX is a nice box from what I have heard. Comcast is testing them with 250 GB HDD's. The Samsung will have a 320 GB HDD. Mind you the DCX can be ordered with a 320 GB HDD if TWC wants to. They will probably do just that.
As for SDV ask Bob Barlow at firstname.lastname at twcable dot com. Just change the firstname.lastname to his name. I wanted to reduce the spam. I think they are working on a solution to use the Cisco SDV on the Moto headend. They could use Big Band SDV equipment and be done with it. Of course the iGuide has to be fairly recent in order to support SDV. |
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rv65
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I've heard that the North County area will still use iGuide but the new boxes will run an OCAP/tru2way version. If they are testing Motorola boxes then they will likely get Moto boxes. The Samsung boxes can run on the Moto network. It's up to TWC to decide what they are going to use not me. |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA
| San Diego has added the Pentagon channel though it's not in HD. Expect more channels. Probably a few HD channels with a ton of SD channels. They are going to add a Korean channel which makes sense since there is a sizeable Korean community here in San Diego. That channel will likely be a SDV channel since there won't be many people watching it. |
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rv65
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In 30Apr2009 SDUnion, TWC-SD posted a LEGAL NOTICE, giving
the mandatory 30-day notice that things could be changing:
1. A number of carriage agreements are up for negotiation and
potentially could be dropped. [Possible, but unlikely.]
2. The following (NEW SDV!!!) channels will not be available to
Unidirectional DCR (e.g. CableCARD) customers (no date given):
ESPN-News-HD, E!-HD, TennisChan-HD, Smithsonian-HD, KUSI-HD,
Chiller, PBS-Sprout, RetroPlex, Big10Ntwk-OnDemand,
XEWT, XHUAA, GalaVision, ZeeTV (Hindu), TVK (Korean), KBS (Korean),
GMA Pinoy (Tagalog) and VirtualVideoStore (huh??? sounds like VOD).
3. The fol. channels will also migrate to SDV by "May 09":
FineLiving, FitTV, DIY, NatlGeoChan, Bio, HistIntl, Ovation, GAC,
G4TV, Boomerang, WAM, Bloomberg, CNNIntl, EWTN, TBN, Word,
AmLife, Insp, GospelMusicChan, iLifeTV, EncoreAction, EncoreLove,
EncoreMystery, EncoreTrue, FoxMovieChan, Sundance, IFC,
IndiePlex and FLIX.
4. XHAS (Telemundo) "MAY MOVE" from Expanded (Ch66) to
Local Basic (Ch95) "on or about June 2009".
5. HDNET "MAY MOVE" from HDVipPak to VarietyTier
"on or about June 2009".
6. They are in negotiation to possibly carry KUSI-HD.
So yeah some new HD channels. 5 New HD and HDnet will move to the variety tier. No FSN Prime Ticket but the northern Ex Adelphia area has it. It would be nice to have it for San Diego. TWC San Diego hasn't decided to make a 24 hour FSN West HD and FSN Prime Ticket HD channels yet. It would be nice though. |
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Mad Mac
join:2003-03-10
Moorpark, CA
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| said by rv65  :5. HDNET "MAY MOVE" from HDVipPak to VarietyTier "on or about June 2009". Interesting, given that they're dropping it elsewhere:
»Time Warner Buffalo dropping HD Net & HD Movie Net |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA | reply to rv65
KUSI HD seems nice but they seem to forget the HD switch on Regis and Kelly at least once a week. Only available on OTA for some reason. |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA | So here are the list of new HD channels that are coming soon
Smithsonian HD
Tennis Channel HD
KUSI HD
E! HD
ESPN News HD
So San Diego will be getting some new HD. Could the HDnet move be a result of new negotations? |
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rv65
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XEWT-TV/TD/DT and XHUAA-TV/TD/DT might be added. This might be great if you like Mexican programming. Don't think TWC SoCal will add this. These channels might prove popular with the latino community especially in LA. They would love to have Mexican shows direct from Mexico. Though Televisa and Azteca sometimes forget to flip the switch and end up showing stretch-o-vision which is really, really bad m'kay. If they add XHTIT and XHJK in HD then it would be awesome since those channels have severe cochannel interference. |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA | reply to rv65
San Diego will be deploying Samsung cable boxes in July. Model numbers are 3260 for the HD STB and 3270 for the HD-DVR. The HD-DVR is black, has home networking, and a 320 GB HDD. |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA | These boxes are supposedly newer than the 3050 and 3090 boxes. If your division is getting the 3090 then thats what your getting. |
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rv65
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HDnet is still a maybe. I think they will have to take it off. TWC might just work out a last minute deal. I can finally receive Bio HD. You have to have the up to date packages in order for this channel to work. A bunch of stretch-o-vision.
In non HDTV related news Start Over has been activated. It's a nice feature when it works. It's like VOD but you can't FF a show to skip the ads. Only works on certain SD channels. You can however rewind the show. The record function is also disabled.
So the possible channels are.
Smithsonian HD (721) (if HDNet goes away on 5.31.09)
MavTV HD (722) (if HDNet goes away on 5.31.09)
Tennis Channel HD (7xx)
E! HD (748)
ESPN-News HD (7xx)
Hope this helps. |
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rv65
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Still no signs of more channels for the ex Adelphia area. Don't know if they've implemented SDV yet. If they do then they can add more channels and keep up with the San DIego sytem. |
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rv65
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San Diego, CA | reply to rv65
On May 27 HDNet and HDNet Movies will be dropped.
The new channels are 717 - Smithsonian HD and 720 which is Mav TV HD. MavTV HD is already up on 720 but no guide info. |
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