I went to my local office to see what modems they had to offer. I was going to buy one outright from them (or Micro Center) but they told me that they no longer sell them to customers. Worse yet, they will not let you activate a modem you purchase elsewhere. You have to lease one from them at 7...

Channels 150 or 795?

I cleared my channel maps, and let it load new ones, and the channels are in there... but I can't get them to show up in Media Center regardless if I manually run a guide data update.

Time Warner Cable executives told investors on a morning conference call the cable company has embarked on a gradual transition to an all-IP-based distribution platform which could eventually mean the end of today’s set top boxes and radically increase the amount of bandwidth available for its...

I just got a message from comcast telling me that comcast has increased the speeds of their High speed internet service, and to take full advantage of those speeds, I need to replace my current modem with a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. My speed was 25/5... they've upped it to 50/5. Despite the fact that even...

Extended family lives in Maricopa, AZ. (a town ~25 miles south of Phoenix) and they've got an incumbent Cable provider, Orbitel Communications (they wired all the new developments in exchange for exclusive franchise agreement with the city, and required payment for basic analog cable in many of...

Comcast is giving me headaches, and i haven't even gotten through the order process yet. I thought I had Verizon fios in my area, but apparently I was told incorrect information.

So I'm going through the comcast ordering process. First of all, (unlike my current company, RCN) getting a certain...

Comcast- charges way too much and each CS rep gives different information regarding what services they offer.
RCN- one rep says it takes an hour to email me a hardware return label, the other says 2-3 business days. This is after I never received a physical mailer envelope 2 weeks ago.
Time Warner-...

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Richard, you have a bandwidth cap? I've read that many people in Canada already have caps, but I wasn't aware that anyone in the US had them. The number of people in this country who have cut the cord is very few. I believe that if this...

Get ready for ever more in-your-face sponsorship and product placement as traditional ad revenue inevitably declines.

Beginning with your next month's billing cycle, Tuning Adapters will be free for Brighthouse Networks subscribers!

See the following link for details:

They used to give them free for the first year, but now they will be free . Period.

Looking over the FCC regs and wondering about a couple things in advance of the first bill showing up. I have a single cablecard. When I had Comcast previously, I got one cablecard for free and the second for something approximating $2. There was also a $2.50 credit every month which showed up as...

So apparently there is an english STB user interface developer called NDS. Just read in the news that Cisco just purchased the company. That in itself isn't very interesting, however I went to look and see what the UI from NDS looks like, and I found this:

Very impressive UI. Reminds me a bit of...

I was just wondering how much the combination internet/tv plans cost with Verizon Fios? Can't seem to find an address that allows me to do window-shopping.

Good-looking cableco whole-house DVR solution:

Click on the link inside the blog to see their Youtube video.

I know, you'll all initially laugh when you see this, realizing that we've had this kind of power for awhile now--but then you'll pause and reflect how at least one cable company has...

I know Cisco was supposed to be updating their tunning adapter to handle all four streams for the Ceton Card. I was wondering if anyone had an update to this? I have to reset my adapters at least once a week for the wife to enjoy her channels. Just would be nice to have one and not have to worry....

If you are a DirecTV customer they sent an update to their H2x series of STB's last night that has intorduced a new Power Saving mode that puts the box to sleep if a channel is not changed in 4 hours. It is turned on by default an seems to have no settings other than on and off.

Absolutely stupid....

I have a Motorolla DVR (don't have the model # in front of me now) and it's the latest version offered by Cox. It performs well but I am interested in how to copy recorded shows to my network. Of course, Cox is not help though they say I am allowed to do so with their unit. The unit is connected to...

I have some random questions regarding coax signal loss as I plan on doing some re-wiring in the house soon. If I had my choice, I'd rip the drywall out and do it right.... but the wife won't allow that. :D So, I'll be doing some creative patching... so bear with the randomness.

Regarding female...

I know at least one waiver has been granted in the past (I believe to CableVision in NYC) but now waivers are no longer necessary. My understanding onf this is that MSOs can encrypt the OTA channels if they wish, so it's possible this will kill ClearQAM - depends on how many MSOs jump on board.

So I was home for the holidays, and got to experiment with the Uverse system that my parents had installed a few months ago. I initially thought it would be like Media Center, but maybe a different skin, but its very different. I'm actually not a fan. The menus themselves are very difficult to...

I live in Central PA, recently my QAM tuners could no longer tune the NBC HD channel, just said no signal.

Upon calling the Comcast customer service, I was advised the following:

- Would need a digital converter box as they are moving to SDV;
- The current signal is analog and our QAM tuner...

I recently moved and my new cable company, Windjammer Cable, says that they don't offer CableCARDS in this area. My reading of the Telecommunications act of 1996 is that cable companies are required by law to offer CableCards for a reasonable fee . Has anyone here encountered a similar problem with...

I did a search for this question but couldn't find exactly the answer I was looking for on Google.

I am currently a customer of Time Warner Cable. I have the basic cable package (channels 2-20) but due to a hardware error on their end the guy that came to look at cable removed the trap(??) so I...