Topic 'Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09' in forum 'Comcast Cable TV' - dslreports.com

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:07:37 EDT

DisturbedDan posted : woah... I was coming here to post about the added channels on my DTA's. Thought it was an error because when these boxes originally came out, I got syfy for a few weeks.

Pretty happy.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:55:55 EDT

kb1 posted : Yes, for now.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:54:12 EDT

mbkeller posted : DTA channels activated here around 2PM or so.

Anyone else getting Movieplex now? It's even activated on my DTA (ch 149 here).

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:31:58 EDT

andyross posted : The DS channels are on my DTA as of 6am this morning.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:15:15 EDT

audee posted : No, digital starter channels on the DTA.... Ok. 20 min. later tech says will happen some where in a 24 to 48 hours time frame.

Don't call Comcast, they will call you a cheapskate and a liar...which I find hilarious.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:46:44 EDT

BigBearsFan posted : Same thing in Peoria/Galesburg/Macomb/Quincy area.(Chicago+ West) Feb. 15th first cuts got a letter and Xfinity Welcome to the World of More detailed channel adds states they are to start adding channels Feb. 16th then 17th Feb 23rd. March 8th second cuts second adds March 9th.Starting to get excited ; but then I remembered how things change when it comes to Comcast and that they couldn't give us NFL/RedZone until after the season is over !!!!

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:04:37 EDT

andyross posted : Another me-too here in Schaumburg.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:30:57 EDT

runnoft posted : Ditto for the the same digital starter channels going to expanded basic on the Highland Park, IL head end Feb. 17th, 2011.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:37:13 EDT

Spiderman865 posted :

said by mbkeller:

I'm in the South Bend market, but it seems that everything that happens here happens in Chicagoland too.

In this month's bill, I got notice that all digital starter channels are going to expanded basic...namely the DTAs. The list is:

CLTV/CSN+ (there are a few that I've noticed will be happy about this)
CSPAN3
Bio
Bloomberg
Bravo
Daystar TV
G4
Hallmark Movie Channel
History International
Jewelry TV
NHL Network
Oxygen
PBS Kids Sprout
Style
SyFy

Effective 2/17/2011

I got the same notice on my bill today in Joliet.
--
Yesh

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:36:23 EDT

anon posted : In the mount prospect il super head end systems got the same letter.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:27:24 EDT

Joe12345678 posted : They show live news and other stuff that WGN 9 does not have the room for as they have other stuff like CW and sports at times.

But CLTV dates back to the old analog days and back when had sports vision / sports channel Chicago later FSN Chicago.

Also in 1992-1993 we had Hawkvision PPV.

CLTV stared 1993 and I think over flow games from sports vision / sports channel Chicago later FSN Chicago where on CLTV.

MLB leads to times where the cubs and sox are on at the same time.

Also the NBA play offs where on the same time as base ball as well.

Does any know if Hawkvision was on a PPV channel or just on the main sports vision / sports channel channel scrambled?

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:18:04 EDT

Joe12345678 posted : CSN CA is showing NHL Extra with the blackhawks game CSN + CHI feed.

CSN BA is showing NBA game and you need NBA LP to get that out of market.

When we get NHL Extra games from CSN BA they are SD with bars on CSN HD.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:20:50 EDT

timburke posted :

said by mbkeller:

I don't see what the big deal about CSN+ not being on its own channel...CLTV is basically airing looped news at that time and the HD channel is just that info video. Maybe it's because I'm not in Chicagoland and CLTV is basically worthless to me. West Lafayette, IN has CSN+/HD on their own channels, but no CLTV.

CLTV is just looped news no matter what... never really understood the point of that channel.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:29:19 EDT

mbkeller posted : NHL Network has been Starter for a while now, including HD.

I don't see what the big deal about CSN+ not being on its own channel...CLTV is basically airing looped news at that time and the HD channel is just that info video. Maybe it's because I'm not in Chicagoland and CLTV is basically worthless to me. West Lafayette, IN has CSN+/HD on their own channels, but no CLTV.

Two other things: there must be a good reason 409 is a repeat of CSN Chicago SD? And 425 is supposed to be CSN Bay Area but is a SD widescreen of CSN Chicago.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:42:27 EDT

Joe12345678 posted : NHL Network?
Is that right it's in sports pack or digital preferred now.

But it's about time to give CSN + it's own channel or add CLTV HD to the CSN + HD slot.

As that will fit better in with comcast master channel list plan CSN and CSN + on there own.

RCN has CLTV and CSN + on there own channel slots.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:11:58 EDT

andyross posted : By me, those duplicates of CSPAN/CSPAN2 are dead in that they are allocated a frequency, but there is no signal. It is a bit unusual in that duplicate channels are pointing at different frequencies. One issue is that they are set for 95MHz, which is in the FM radio band. It may have been shut down due to interference in and/or out.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:08:30 EDT

Mgsports posted : What do you mean by being dead? Om my Comcast we have 97 that should be taken off but they haven't yet.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:57:57 EDT

andyross posted :

said by andyross:

Now if they would just add Antenna TV (353) to the DTA. It's WGN's subchannel and ClearQAM, so should be on the DTA's.

Did somebody from Comcast read this? :o

Antenna TV is now on the DTA. They also got LATV and WJYS2 working (the frequency assigned to them had been dead here.)

Now if they would make up their mind on the CSPAN/CSPAN2 dups on 950 and 951, which have been dead for months.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:26:16 EDT

andyross posted : Now if they would just add Antenna TV (353) to the DTA. It's WGN's subchannel and ClearQAM, so should be on the DTA's.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:07:38 EDT

mbkeller posted : I'm in the South Bend market, but it seems that everything that happens here happens in Chicagoland too.

In this month's bill, I got notice that all digital starter channels are going to expanded basic...namely the DTAs. The list is:

CLTV/CSN+ (there are a few that I've noticed will be happy about this)
CSPAN3
Bio
Bloomberg
Bravo
Daystar TV
G4
Hallmark Movie Channel
History International
Jewelry TV
NHL Network
Oxygen
PBS Kids Sprout
Style
SyFy

Effective 2/17/2011

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:55:19 EDT

Joe12345678 posted :

said by D FENS :

AT&T U-verse and Xbox will be in sync on Nov 8th. You will be able to use your Xbox 360 as A U-verse tuner. Will Comcast ever do this ? Of course not ! They want their rental revenue.
Well it's good to be back and GO BEARS !!!

The Xbox 360 and U-verse boxes have the same OS core. Yes M$ did part of the software for the U-verse boxes.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:13:41 EDT

anon posted :
I am loving the new hdmi black boxes. Those big silver clunker ones were the biggest P.O.S's. It's cool you can use all the outputs for multiple tv's. It's great the R.G.B. output works even with the hdmi on at the same time. The audio is A little out of sync giving an echo effect when both tv's audio are on.
Does anyone know how to disable the on screen caller ID ? I searched around and cant seem to find it. On the old silver box I remember disabling it no prob.
Is there going to be another free NFL Red Zone day ? NFL network is great. But I don't want to upgrade.
AT&T U-verse and Xbox will be in sync on Nov 8th. You will be able to use your Xbox 360 as A U-verse tuner. Will Comcast ever do this ? Of course not ! They want their rental revenue.
Well it's good to be back and GO BEARS !!!

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:59:06 EDT

andyross posted :

said by kb1:

said by andyross:

Found my box had rebooted overnight. It was updated to the newer A28r8. Looking at the diagnostics, the memory allocated for the Guide data increased from 6.5M to 9.5M, which should allow it to hold the full 2 weeks again instead of the 8-9 days it has been.

Where do you find the i-guide memory data?

MENU/MENU/Setup/Cable Box Setup
Scroll to "Configuration: Select to display" and hit OK
From this screen, hit the FAV key to enter iGuide diagnostics. Each press of FAV goes to the next screen. The 3rd screen is the DB (database) diagnostics.

»en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use···gnostics

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:42:52 EDT

kb1 posted :

Where do you find the i-guide memory data?

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:02:48 EDT

runnoft posted : You're right! I have A28r8 now, and boxes are displaying program guide date 14 days out.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:48:41 EDT

andyross posted : Found my box had rebooted overnight. It was updated to the newer A28r8. Looking at the diagnostics, the memory allocated for the Guide data increased from 6.5M to 9.5M, which should allow it to hold the full 2 weeks again instead of the 8-9 days it has been.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:48:53 EDT

SKORPI0 posted : Just noticed the added channels in Orland Park (Homewood Area) a few days/weeks back. Same channels that Romeoville area had for the last year. :D

225...............Nick
226...............Toon
227...............Hallmark Movie Channel
228...............Lifetime
229 ..............Lifetime Movie Network
231...............ESW
232...............CBSC (CBS College Sports)
234...............NHL
236...............The Tennis Channel
238...............ION
261...............GRN
262...............E!
263...............ENC
264...............FBN
265...............FNC
266...............CNBCD
269...............BIO
270...............TWC
278...............Bavo
279...............Fuse
280...............IFC
281...............WE
282...............QVC
283...............DXD (Disney)
284...............MGM
287...............Style
288...............G4
289...............TVOne
290...............Spike
293...............Travel
294...............Comedy Central
295...............BET
296...............MTV
297...............VH1
298...............CMT
299...............gmc
314...............TMC
318...............HLN (Headline News)
319...............TCM (Turner Classic Movies)
320...............TruTV
321...............HCH (Hallmark)
322...............HSN
323...............HI (History International)
324...............ID
333...............3DTV (subscription)
334...............ESPN 3D (subscription)

plus more SHO, STARZ, MAX and HBO HD channels.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:59:17 EDT

SalesGOD posted :

said by kb1:

Did you guys get HDnet in your area yet?

No HDnet in Tinley Park.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:59:34 EDT

Comcastblows posted : Oh and I need to have HDnet, "Drinking made Easy" starts this month on there. Zane Lamprey is my homeboy.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:57:25 EDT

Comcastblows posted : I've been waiting on Fox soccer channel HD since the HD feed was made available back in February. I've been on the comcast twitter people for months. Alot of people have left Comcast for Directv due to this, I'm thinking of doing the same when I finally close in my new condo next month. They have fsc hd, fs+ hd and goltv hd. Comcast has fsc sd which looks like absolute shit on my 58 inch plasma.....*sigh*

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:50:23 EDT

mikedz4 posted : just curious if crete went all digital yet and if they received the new channels yet?

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:24:52 EDT

kb1 posted :

said by mhornet:

said by SalesGOD:

said by tontorial:

The 9/15 channel updates were finally added overnight.

We received them in Tinley Park!

Got them here in OF as well.

Did you guys get HDnet in your area yet?

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:49:26 EDT

mhornet posted :

said by SalesGOD:

said by tontorial:

The 9/15 channel updates were finally added overnight.

We received them in Tinley Park!

Got them here in OF as well.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:31:00 EDT

RichRuggiero posted : Sorry...I'm no longer with Comcast and don't have any insight into the issue.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:39:22 EDT

SalesGOD posted :

said by tontorial:

The 9/15 channel updates were finally added overnight.

We received them in Tinley Park!

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:04:51 EDT

tontorial posted : The 9/15 channel updates were finally added overnight.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:05:11 EDT

kb1 posted :

said by tontorial:

Still haven't received the channels that were advertised for 9/15. Any one hear why they werent added?

On page 2 of this post there was a guy named Ruggiero who works for Comcast and answered
alot of the questions but he hasn't posted in awhile.
He might be able to help.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:03:16 EDT

tontorial posted : Still haven't received the channels that were advertised for 9/15. Any one hear why they werent added?

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:46:23 EDT

anon posted : Yet Elmwood Park still does not have the HD Net channel. Anybody hear anything on that?

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:01:12 EDT

Macks posted :

said by jay2031:

We got HDnet last night also, the Comcast box has the video and guide information. The Tivo's have the video but no guide information yet. I had to add the check mark to my Tivo's channel list manually.

Actually, my TiVo added the channel to my channel list automatically. The guide has been populated for HDNET, but I have no picture.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:18:30 EDT

jay2031 posted : We got HDnet last night also, the Comcast box has the video and guide information. The Tivo's have the video but no guide information yet. I had to add the check mark to my Tivo's channel list manually.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:04:25 EDT

Macks posted :

said by FSugino:

Schaumburg got HDNET on channel 291 this morning.

In the western suburbs here, and got a notice on my TiVo today that HDNET is now on 291, but the channel hasn't gone live yet. Does anyone know when the channel is scheduled to go live and/or what programming packages HDNET is included in?

Normally I receive a notice on my Comcast bills when new channels are arriving but never saw anything about HDNET. I really hope to add it to my HD channels.

EDIT: I just completed an online chat with Comcast customer service and was told that HDNET would be available to all customers who subscribe to a Digital Preferred package and it will be going live in my area (western Chicago burbs) next week.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:55:57 EDT

FSugino posted : Schaumburg got HDNET on channel 291 this morning.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:13:46 EDT

DisturbedDan posted : I still have my mailer. It says the 18th for certain movie channels but for stuff like spiketv and g4. All on the 15th.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:11:33 EDT

SalesGOD posted : I thought my mailer from them said the 18th, but that would be a weekend. Unfortunately, I threw it out.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:28:31 EDT

mhornet posted :

said by tontorial:

Did any one in the suburbs get the HD new channels that were scheduled for 9/15 yet?

Nothing here either. I wonder why it didn't happen? It seemed that everywhere else around here got round 2 on the day they were supposed to.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:16:31 EDT

anon posted : Nope, it doesn't look like they have removed any more of the analogs yet.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:49:36 EDT

mikedz4 posted : I guess that means crete didn't get them either?

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:49:09 EDT

DisturbedDan posted : I was just coming on to post about this. I didn't get them yet either.

Re: Comcast Chicago Suburbs Going All Digitail 9/29/09

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:16:32 EDT

tontorial posted : Did any one in the suburbs get the HD new channels that were scheduled for 9/15 yet?