CT systems get 17 new HD channels starting late Oct

CT systems get 17 new HD channels starting late Oct
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mws192 @ 21st Sep 11:10AM:
CT systems get 17 new HD channels starting late Oct

Beginning on October 20th, we are planning to launch the following new HD channels:

USA HD 743 20-Oct-2009
BRAVOHD 702 20-Oct-2009
DISNEY CH HD 753 20-Oct-2009
LIFETIME HD 748 20-Oct-2009
TRAVEL CH HD 738 20-Oct-2009
CNN HD 728 27-Oct-2009
SCIENCE CH HD 715 27-Oct-2009
CNBCHD 723 27-Oct-2009
HALLMARK MOVIE CH SD 194 27-Oct-2009
HALLMARK MOVIE CH HD 707 27-Oct-2009
SPEED CH HD 763 27-Oct-2009
SYFYHD 720 3-Nov-2009
AMC HD 705 3-Nov-2009
IFC HD 703 3-Nov-2009
WE HD 750 3-Nov-2009
FUSE HD 710 3-Nov-2009
NHL NETWORK HD 765 10-Nov-2009
CARTOON NET HD 756 10-Nov-2009

Western CT:
»www.dpuc.state.ct.us/DPUCUndocke···Document

NE CT:
»www.dpuc.state.ct.us/DPUCUndocke···Document
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Ox3g3n @ 21st Sep 12:21PM:
Re: CT systems get 17 new HD channels starting late Oct

Now if only the U.P of MI would see these...
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MadCity @ 21st Sep 01:31PM:
Re: CT systems get 17 new HD channels starting late Oct

How are they making room on your system?

Bandwith reclaimation (moving SD channels to digital only), SDV, ????
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google2 @ 21st Sep 02:18PM:
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I think they're using SDV out East, which would certainly help with the bandwidth.
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mws192 @ 21st Sep 02:38PM:
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said by MadCity :

How are they making room on your system?

Bandwith reclaimation (moving SD channels to digital only), SDV, ????

The Newtown, CT system has been using SDV for over 7 months now, although these are first HD additions since that rollout. They have not removed anything from analog recently.

SDV notice: »www.dpuc.state.ct.us/DPUCUndocke···Document
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MadCity @ 21st Sep 02:56PM:
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How would you say that the SDV is working out?
i.e. Good, bad, so so, ....

Are the unpopular channels the ones that are switched to free up the bandwidth?
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mws192 @ 21st Sep 03:14PM:
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said by MadCity :

How would you say that the SDV is working out?
i.e. Good, bad, so so, ....

Are the unpopular channels the ones that are switched to free up the bandwidth?

I don't have Charter in my town, but my family and friend's do in the surrounding towns, hence my interest. None of them have a cablecard or Tivo, but no one's said anything about being unable to tune to a given channel. So I would theorize that it's gone over well, although it's all about what channels are sdv and whether or not they're watching them.

I know when they rolled out SDV on my service, Cablevision, last year, it was on lesser viewed stations and lots of people had issues with 'channel not available' messages, however I never had a problem. Apparently if you don't have a decent signal to begin with, sdv will give you a headache, so you'd need to have that fixed. CV also had issues with not assigning enough 'slots' when they first rolled it out, so once the max # of people tuned into a sdv feed, no one else in the area could tune it. That has since been resolved.
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SMAN @ 21st Sep 03:24PM:
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said by MadCity :

How would you say that the SDV is working out?
i.e. Good, bad, so so, ....

Are the unpopular channels the ones that are switched to free up the bandwidth?

SDV here in worcester (which is a similar setup to CT) is currently setup to move all the digital pay channels (low def movie chans, those extra sports and science channels). None of the HD chans are on SDV yet, but they have about 15+ chans on each SDV Qam. So you don't really notice an issue with quality or anything at this point cause it's just low def channels that most people don't have. Lets hope that we get some of those HD chans up here that you are getting in CT soon.
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redwings1914 @ 21st Sep 03:27PM:
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And I thought getting 6 new HD was a big deal....
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anon @ 21st Sep 05:54PM:
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SMAN - How did you come up with 15-SD channels per QAM on SDV?
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jeffro @ 21st Sep 04:54PM:
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redwings-No shit! Damn that makes me want to cry.
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drbill28 @ 21st Sep 06:25PM:
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Is this just for the Newtown, CT areas. Or will other area in CT be getting some or all of this, such as northeast CT, Willimantic/Ashford network?

I mean, all the other channels I want are in this packagem except maybe 1 or 2. If I was getting NHL Network in HD, that would make me SO happy!
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mws192 @ 21st Sep 07:05PM:
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said by drbill28 :

Is this just for the Newtown, CT areas. Or will other area in CT be getting some or all of this, such as northeast CT, Willimantic/Ashford network?

I mean, all the other channels I want are in this packagem except maybe 1 or 2. If I was getting NHL Network in HD, that would make me SO happy!

Read the last line of the first post.
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KoRnGtL15 @ 21st Sep 07:23PM:
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That is a nice increase of HD channels if every thing goes okay with it. And they can deliver on time as promised.
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SMAN @ 21st Sep 07:38PM:
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said by FIB3RTECH :

SMAN - How did you come up with 15-SD channels per QAM on SDV?

I obtained a list of all the current qam mappings in the help of trying to diagnose some issues i'm having with signal issues.
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drbill28 @ 21st Sep 08:58PM:
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said by mws192 :

Read the last line of the first post.

Sorry got carried away and didn't look, heh
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acs12798 @ 22nd Sep 10:20AM:
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Alright some solid additions there. USA and SyFy are especially big for me.

Only 3 channels left that I actually care about:
-MSGHD(I honestly don't know how they don't carry it when ever other RSN is carried, they and they carry a permanent overflow channelf rot he SD Version)
-CW HD(I also find it odd there missing an OTA network in HD)
-ABC Family: I don't care as much about this one, but I would like it. I'm surprised however there adding Disney without adding this.

Anyway, overall I am extremely happy with these adds and am looking forward to them
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mws192 @ 22nd Sep 11:15AM:
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said by acs12798 :

-MSGHD(I honestly don't know how they don't carry it when ever other RSN is carried, they and they carry a permanent overflow channelf rot he SD Version)
-ABC Family: I don't care as much about this one, but I would like it. I'm surprised however there adding Disney without adding this.

MSGHD and MSG+HD exclusions are particularly baffling when you consider they're about to add all of the other stations Cablevision owns (We, IFC, AMC, Fuse). I guess the issue is that Charter has a national deal to carry those four, but the local office doesn't have a deal for the sports channels. So still no local pro teams involving the Knicks, Rangers, Islanders and Devils or Fox Sports Net affiliate college games in HD. I know Cablevision won't sell MSGHD and MSG+HD to Fios or Uverse, but they have sold it to Comcast since they don't compete with them.

As for Disney and ABC FamilyHD, also missing from that pact are Disney XD-HD, ESPNU-HD, and ESPNewsHD

And then there's the addition of Turner owned Cartoon NetworkHD, but not Turner Classic MoviesHD, which Turner doesn't charge extra for if they have a deal for the sd channel. (TruTvHD missing as well)
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acs12798 @ 2nd Oct 07:34PM:
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Well I was hoping for an opening day msg surprise. Didn't get that..however, did get a CW HD surprise which showed up on 780 today.
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SMAN @ 9th Oct 04:14PM:
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So after talking with a person who will remain nameless in the worcester head end, it apears as if this schedule (or something very similar) will also be deployed in the Worcester area at around the same time!
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luna50 @ 18th Oct 09:06AM:
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Just noticed that SyFHD has a slot allotted at 720 but no info yet. Can't wait for Nov.!
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drbill28 @ 20th Oct 05:22PM:
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Well, Bravo HD, USA HD, SyFy HD and Lifetime HD were listed in my channel list now on my TiVo, everything except Bravo has a picture once I selected them. Not completely the right order so far...
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scoosdad @ 21st Oct 11:51AM:
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said by SMAN :

So after talking with a person who will remain nameless in the worcester head end, it apears as if this schedule (or something very similar) will also be deployed in the Worcester area at around the same time!

Could you ask your headend contact for me what was the logic behind the recent move to put QVC smack-dab in the middle of the broadcast HD channel lineup in the 78x range on channel 784, forcing WBZ-DT to move down to 783? Made no sense at all, considering that all of the analog broadcast channels mostly had digital/HD equivalents with the "x" in the 78x matching their channel assignment in the analog part of the lineup (04 was 784, 05 is 785, 06 is 786, 07 is 787, etc.), and that was damn convenient to remember where to find them. And the irony is that the QVC channel they inserted up there isn't even broadcasting in HD. Don't get me started on whether the world even needs QVC in HD. Nothing Charter does makes any practical sense to me.
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mws192 @ 21st Oct 12:55PM:
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said by scoosdad[Could you ask your headend contact for me what was the logic behind the recent move to put QVC smack-dab in the middle of the broadcast HD channel lineup in the 78x range on channel 784, forcing WBZ-DT to move down to 783? Made no sense at all, considering that all of the analog broadcast channels mostly had digital/HD equivalents with the "x" in the 78x matching their channel assignment in the analog part of the lineup (04 was 784, 05 is 785, 06 is 786, 07 is 787, etc.), and that was damn convenient to remember where to find them. And the irony is that the QVC channel they inserted up there isn't even broadcasting in HD. Don't get me started on whether the world even needs QVC in HD. Nothing Charter does makes any practical sense to me.

QVC pays cable operators to be carried. So it keeps Charter's costs down which in turn helps subsidize your bill.

Considering some companies have paid to have their stations placed low on the dial in the past, it appears QVC thinks they'll get more people surfing through the HD tier and stumble across their station than they would elsewhere.

So since it makes no logical sense otherwise, I wouldn't be shocked if QVC paid to be placed there. Why they wouldn't just pay to have their HD feed placed there is another matter.

The only other somewhat-logical reason is that Charter agreed to carry the HD feed there once they reclaim more bandwidth. Since their overall national HD count is so low, I'm sure there'd be alot of iritated people out there if one of the few HD channels they got was QVC.
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SMAN @ 21st Oct 02:52PM:
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said by scoosdad :

That choice was made by corporate. The head end had no say in thel numbers.
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jamiers @ 21st Oct 05:49PM:
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UMatter2Charter -- I agree with the above referenced post...

In Charter NE CT, it should be Channel 3 is on 783, Channel 4 is on 784 (but really is on 785), Channel 6 should be on 786... Put QVC in slot 785 (empty) and move 785 to 784 (which would match the SD channel 4 location)!?>
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SMAN @ 21st Oct 09:41PM:
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Anyone else having issues with Bravo HD? I got all the others but that one says I'm not authorized.
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anon @ 21st Oct 10:50PM:
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said by SMAN :

Anyone else having issues with Bravo HD? I got all the others but that one says I'm not authorized.

Bravo has been working fine in Easthampton since yesterday
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aiboy @ 22nd Oct 03:14AM:
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can somebody explain how charter decides witch hd channels to add and witch areas get them first
wouldn't it be easier just to a national roll out of the hd channels on one day.instead of having some areas wait till its finally offered in their area.
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sd2hd @ 22nd Oct 03:00PM:
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said by SMAN :

Anyone else having issues with Bravo HD? I got all the others but that one says I'm not authorized.

I had the same error last night as well. I'll try again tonight when I get home
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drbill28 @ 22nd Oct 09:39PM:
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Bravo is doing the same for me. The new channels keep getting deleted off my TiVo. So they likely haven't been released "officially" yet. SyFy has tons of issues too.
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SMAN @ 23rd Oct 01:47PM:
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So it turns out that it was because bravo was on another package that I thought I had, but I didn't when they switched things over. I never watch analog so I never noticed. As for the tivo deleting the new channels, they are aware of it, but don't have an ETA.
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wiCKid @ 1st Nov 04:46PM:
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I really enjoyed watching the F1 race on SpeedTV in HD this morning. What a track.
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SMAN @ 2nd Nov 08:29AM:
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stupid question, but every time it went to or from the commercial break, did you hear something that sounded like a phone dialing?
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anon @ 2nd Nov 01:09PM:
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I've already had a few instances of not being able to tune into several of the new channels, with a message saying to try again later. I assume this related to SDV?
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SMAN @ 3rd Nov 11:11AM:
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said by met_fan :

I've already had a few instances of not being able to tune into several of the new channels, with a message saying to try again later. I assume this related to SDV?

As I stated earlier. SDV is only setup for low def digital channels like the HBO movie channels and stuff. None of the HD channels are on SDV.
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TMTBoomer @ 3rd Nov 03:15PM:
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Are you SURE about that?
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SMAN @ 3rd Nov 03:25PM:
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said by TMTBoomer :

Are you SURE about that?

Well my info is about 2 months old. But back then it was like that. Since they have added the extra channels, I'm not sure. But i can probably find out, but it was my understanding that they weren't going to put HD channels into SDV because they were watched more than the low def digital chans.
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anon @ 3rd Nov 09:09PM:
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said by SMAN :

said by TMTBoomer :

Are you SURE about that?

I live in Spencer so I imagine I am on the same system as Worcester. I believe the only non-SDV channels are the 780-790 block. When I first got my tivo setup, those were the only digital channels that would work until I got the tuning adapter.
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SMAN @ 3rd Nov 09:13PM:
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said by brianstak :

said by SMAN :

said by TMTBoomer :

Are you SURE about that?

It could be cause those were the channels that weren't encrypted. The public channels that occupy that space are all clearQam.
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anon @ 3rd Nov 09:28PM:
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said by SMAN :

It could be cause those were the channels that weren't encrypted. The public channels that occupy that space are all clearQam.

I should have specified this before, but this was after I had gotten my cable card authorized and before the tuning adapter was installed. The morons forgot to bring the tuning adapter on the first visit so I had to wait a week with only the locals in HD and analog channels.

Before the cable card was installed I got nothing on the HD channel numbers.
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forthekill @ 19th Nov 04:28PM:
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I don't have the tier Bravo is on but I have all the channels in the OP listed on my TiVo now.

However, Disney HD does not work yet. The thing I noticed is that the official lineup on charter.com does not show Disney HD as part of the lineup yet, though it shows all the others.

Not to go OT, but what is the deal with NFL network? Are we never going to get it?
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drbill28 @ 19th Nov 04:51PM:
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Disney was sent to the dealie early. It's supposed to be released tomorrow according to sources. Hopefully NHL network too.
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