[mythtv-users] Comcast analog shutdown for SF Southbay

[Robert McNamara]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Brad Fuller<bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Brad Fuller<bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Brad Fuller<bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Brad Fuller<bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM, RAM<ram at bca.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Brad Fuller wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Anyone notice that 35-up has been shutoff today on comcast in the SF
>>>>>>>>> southbay ? Maybe it was yesterday?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Still on in 95132.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interesting. I get lower channels but not the higher ones. At least,
>>>>>> that's what it was last night (95124)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Brad Fuller
>>>>>
>>>>> Still on here in 95032. Receiving everything from 2-82.
>>>>
>>>> Ii just checked, this is what I found:
>>>>
>>>> 1-34 Still on
>>>> 25-66 - not on
>>>> 67-82  Still on
>>>
>>> Oppss...  Should have checked my typing! Try again:
>>>
>>> 1-34:    Still on
>>> 35-66:  not on
>>> 67-82:  Still on
>>>
>>> I can only assum 67-82 will go away sometime soon.
>>
>> One thing that did happen last night was the bandwidth on Letterman
>> almost doubled. It's been running about 1.1GB for the hour over the
>> last month. Jumped to about 1.8GB last night. No noticible difference
>> in picture quality watching with the dead and/or dieing MythTV Player
>> app, but it was listed with more disk space.
>>
>> Probably not related but I thought I'd share it.
>>
>
> wouldn't it would be related in that there is now more bandwidth
> available (in my neck of the woods.)
>

For what it's worth, it's a worthwhile tradeoff (IMHO) as the analog
shutoff is being followed up immediately with 51 new HD channels.
Firewire recipients and HD-PVR owners, rejoice!

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=179081

Robert