Originally Posted by Dartgod

Time Warner, but if I had a choice, I'd tell them f***ers to hit the road. I had an issue recently with my High Definition that took them a month and a half to fix. I was getting about three of the twleve channels and the rest were either badly pixelated or didn't work at all. Problem was, I had to keep calling them to find out when the f*** they were going to take care of the problem. Every time, I had to explain again what the problem was to yet another customer service rep. I bet I made over two dozen phone that time. Every time, of course, I had to wait on hold forever. I demanded to have a single point of contact until they resolved the problem, but actually speaking to someone in charge there is like pulling teeth. I finally did get a hold of the supervisor in charge of the contractors and within three days they fixed the problem (it was water in a trap, whatever a trap is). It pisses me off to no end that a huge corporation like that, knowing that there are no alternatives for the consumer, can dick a person around like that. The worst customer service experience I've ever encountered.

I considered switching to satellite, but an HD receiver with Tivo was going cost me $500 plus I had to install an OTA antenna to get the local channels in HD. I'm glad that ordeal is finally over, and all my HD channels are working.

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

I wish I'd known this was going on so I could have laughed at you. hehe A trap is a device that either enables you to get subscription channels or prevents you from getting them. I watched the Iggles game at a sports bar that had the game in high definition. It's picture was no better than my SD picture. I have mine hooked up with the "S" video cable and AV cables rather than coax. Makes a hell of a difference.

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

I wish I'd known this was going on so I could have laughed at you. hehe A trap is a device that either enables you to get subscription channels or prevents you from getting them. I watched the Iggles game at a sports bar that had the game in high definition. It's picture was no better than my SD picture. I have mine hooked up with the "S" video cable and AV cables rather than coax. Makes a hell of a difference.

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Maybe we should laugh at you. :D

Seriously, when you say the S-video cable makes that much difference over coax, think about the difference between RGB (component) cables and S-video.

The difference between HD and normal TV, especially for sporting events, is STRIKING. Your setup is preventing you from seeing it.

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

But I've had customers express disappointment with HD also so maybe not.

Originally Posted by JennyGump

Mediacom. They keep me in the tv and pron.

Originally Posted by keg in kc

And then I forget about it.

Originally Posted by ZachKC

Something shiny or bright show up?

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Time Warner.

Never had any issues, except that my digital cable pixellates sometimes, when there are CG intensive/flashy or very dark scenes.

It's makes me go...hmm, that was pixellated. And then I forget about it.

Originally Posted by htismaqe

DirecTV does the same thing.

Originally Posted by SLAG02

They all do the same thing sometime or another

its the MPEG 2 ENCODING that causes it the Compression of the Video Causes artifacts (Pixilating) to appear

Just the way it is

Originally Posted by morphius

Best interface and crappy hardware then?

I guess I'll look more closely at DTV when they bring down their HD stuff to be the same as the rest of their stuff, becuase right now with 3 TV's I would pay more using DTV then I do for Comcast, but I don't pay for digital cable because the extra cost and having to actually use a PoS box on my TV's pisses me off.

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Yes, thank you.

I was trying to IMPLY that artifacts were indigenous to digital TV, not just Time Warner cable, without actually explaining codecs.

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