On Apr 23, 10:30*am, wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:25:38 -0500, "



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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:15:23 -0400, LouB wrote:

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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:52:23 -0500, bud--
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Since you have a "new digital converter boxes" you have probably gone
through "digital conversion", and the old analog channels (other than
those above), like Discovery, are only available as digital channels
through the converter.

In my opinion Comcast has shot themselves in the foot. The only real
advantage cable had was that you could hook up all your cable ready
TVs and other devices without a box. Now that you need a box
everywhere anyway, satellite really looks attractive. Dish is going to
save me over $50 a month with the bundle I am getting through my phone
company, my existing DSL will be faster and I am getting a lot of new
features in my phone for that price. It will be very satisfying for me
to cut that cable and throw it out in the right of way although I
suspect a scrapper will have it before I can walk back into the
house..

I would get dish but it dies whenever there is a decent rainstorm.
I am in FL

I have Dish also. *It's crap.

TV is crap in general, what's your problem with Dish that makes it
worst than cable?

Screen freezes/drop outs, jerky scenes (lasting a minute or more),
really gross digial compression artifacts, sound gets out of sync with
video, set-top box crashes, thunderstorms...
My last two cable setups had some compression artifacts but none of
the other issues and Internet speeds were *many* times what I get now
(eight years ago I was getting 4Mb).

I just got my installation and I am still finding my way around the
hardware but it looks pretty interesting (one duo DVR, one duo
receiver for 4 outputs). If I understand this right I think I have a
lot more flexibility than I had with cable and so far the picture
looks as good, more channels and $50 a month cheaper adding a DVR
with the Telco bundle. I also get more stuff on my POTS line and my
DSL got faster in the bundle deal.

My DSL sucks (*best* it can to is 768K, and that's a outright lie) and
I have no POTS so I'm not ****ed about that.