<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>----- "Brad Fuller" <bradallenfuller@gmail.com> wrote:
<br>> From: "Brad Fuller" <bradallenfuller@gmail.com><br>> To: "MythTV-users" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:44:35 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific<br>> Subject: [mythtv-users] Comcast analog shutdown time for SF-Bay?<br>><br>> Today is the day that Comcast is to shut off channels 35-100. But,<br>> they haven't yet. Does anyone know the exact time? Is it 11:59pm<br>> tonight? Or?<br><br>Brad & others going through this:<br><br>We up here in Portland went through this in April.<br><br>The official announced cutoff was April 15. That was the advertised date by which everyone wanting to keep watching channels 32 - 71 (our Standard Cable had fewer channels, it seems) had to have DTAs or STBs installed.<br><br>However.<br><br>The analog channels stayed around until April 29. Probably not coincidentally, this was also the date that Comcast introduced a bunch of new HD channels.<br><br>While YMMV, the digital channels which replaced channels 32 - 71 underwent a major shift a few weeks later. The program numbers, and the grouping of channels on the various transports, did not change, but the transports did. For MythTV users, this means a rescan. <br><br>The Silicon Dust support site for the HD Homerun has a channel scanner which is a great way to learn when this shift happens. <br></div></body></html>