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reply to Floppy

Re: Any updates?- Comcast of Ocean County, NJ

Impossible because when I moved down here in 1999 the digital boxes and equipment was Motorola, which continued to be Motorola until Comcast came in.

comcast doesn't change boxes in a system because that would require a complete rebuild of the system to switch from motorola to cisco UNLESS they combined it with a Cisco system and switched the gear on the poles from motorola to cisco.

reply to actor90
Why not just deploy Simulcrypt, so they can use Motorola set tops (as well as Moto DTA's) as well?

Verizon starts Simulcrypt on Wed 9/15 I believe. They will slowly start rolling out Cisco set tops with IMG loaded on and expandable hard drive DVR's. It lets them have more inventory and not have to rely on only ONE set top provider. So if Motorola jacks their rates, they can pull more from Cisco (or vice versa).

reply to Mike Wolf

ah ok, cool.

Now I gotta complain about the lack of HD channels by Comcast, compared to Cablevision, down in Seaside Park which is like a handful of miles from me, and yet most of these channels here we dont get in my town. Why can't Comcast get thier act together sooner.

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Mike, I can't dispute your facts about Cablevision with the HD. The only point of contention that I can make is that Cablevision is ONLY situated in the NY area now. They sold off all of their systems in Chicago, Ohio, and Massachusetts before the digital revolution and only has systems left in the New York market. That made it easier for CV to upgrade it's sytems[Especially since they only dealt with SA/Cisco for it's hardware as opposed to CC having systems througntry with bot Motorola and SA/Cisco system hardware].

Not sure what you mean when you say its ONLY in the NY area now, since its available in a wide area of New Jersey. Though I do understand that the places you listed dont recieve the NY feeds. »www.optimum.com/channel_lineups.jsp

reply to Mike Wolf

Re: Any updates?- Comcast of Ocean County, NJ

ok? so that includes Ocean County as well since we get both the Philly channels and NYC channels for local news, though only the NYC ABC, CBS, NBC, CW, FOX, and UPN are sent in HD on the digital channels, where as the Philly channels are digital, marked as HD by every device, Comcast, and channel guide, but aren't actually transmitted in HD.

That is correct, although in Ocean County the digital Philly network channels are NOT listed as HD[Unlike TR]. The reverse takes place in Mercer County, where the Philly networks channels are in the HD slots, while the NY network channels were not. Mercer County is actually part of the Philly DMA[or ADI]

ah ok so I'm not crazy, because I called Comcast a few days ago, and the tech was very insistant that those channels ARE in HD, that 480i is HD, and that I'm recieving it in HD. When I told him that I've never recieved anything in HD on that channel, he muttered something and hung up.
Whats irritating is that every online guide, TiVo, Moxi, and DVR mark those Philly channels as HD.

480i is HD?? In the words of a famous comedian, "Obviously that tech is definitely on drugs".

Yeah, it was like 6am in the morning, and I didn't want to chew him out and wake people up, and I just hung up. I called immediately back up, got another tech, but was told the same thing. What the hell are they teaching these people..