[mythtv-users] Lost Clear QAM on Boston Area Comcast
Kirk Bocek
t004 at kbocek.com
Thu Mar 25 01:02:04 UTC 2010
On 3/24/2010 5:57 PM, Rusty Nelson wrote:
> I did a rescan with my HDHR and it looks like they changed all the
> channels on me. I'll rescan through Myth and i guess it should work.
> Thanks Bill. This whole thing may hasten my move to Fios.
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com
> <mailto:bogstad at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Rusty Nelson <rustymtb at gmail.com
> <mailto:rustymtb at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > As of today, it appears as though I've lost clear QAM on all of
> my tuners.
> > I can only seem to get the digital (non-HD) local network
> channels. Has
> > anybody else seen this or is it just me?
>
> Not yet. Although I did get the 'letter' from Comcast in my last bill
> telling me that only Basic Cable channels (essentially re-broadcast
> OTA) would be available in clear QAM soon. I believe the cutoff date
> was sometime in May. Perhaps somebody jumped the gun in your area?
>
> Bill Bogstad
In my area (North of San Francisco), Comcast went through a period where
they moved all the digital channels around before turning off most of
the analog channels. Since the cutoff, the digital channels have been
pretty stable. This is a different issue from the ClearQAM encryption
process.
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