04-22-2009, 05:55 PM
I get about 30 digital channels via Comcast without a digital converter box. Most of them are in Spanish, but I also get C-span, a few SuperStations and local networks.
They moved the channel guide up into the digital channels. I get it somewhere around channel 106. Yours may be up there, too.
I used to receive a lot of stations on digital-96, but now there are a bunch of black images being transmitted on those channels. The appearance of the black images coincides with the loss of several digital channels, including Cartoon Network, which is now available on its old analog station as a digital transmission only via Comcast's converter box ($14.99/month).
I don't have that box. I don't want that box.
This really stinks.
I have a television that's capable of tuning in via all three of the major digital transmission standards. I'm paying for a cable lineup that I can no longer receive without an additional monthly expense.
Comcast has encoded the most popular family-oriented channels in such a way as to prevent all such televisions from receiving the signal and the only explanation that I can see for that kind of action is to force users to rent their proprietary digital converter box in a blatant abuse of their local monopoly.
(No, FiOS is not available here. And I don't think Verizon's any better than Comcast.)
They moved the channel guide up into the digital channels. I get it somewhere around channel 106. Yours may be up there, too.
I used to receive a lot of stations on digital-96, but now there are a bunch of black images being transmitted on those channels. The appearance of the black images coincides with the loss of several digital channels, including Cartoon Network, which is now available on its old analog station as a digital transmission only via Comcast's converter box ($14.99/month).
I don't have that box. I don't want that box.
This really stinks.
I have a television that's capable of tuning in via all three of the major digital transmission standards. I'm paying for a cable lineup that I can no longer receive without an additional monthly expense.
Comcast has encoded the most popular family-oriented channels in such a way as to prevent all such televisions from receiving the signal and the only explanation that I can see for that kind of action is to force users to rent their proprietary digital converter box in a blatant abuse of their local monopoly.
(No, FiOS is not available here. And I don't think Verizon's any better than Comcast.)