Comcast Gone Digital Overnight 2
August 10, 2009
So this morning, I flipped on the TV to catch CNN and it was gone. In place is a nice note from Comcast saying I needed to get a digital device from them. This was announced multiple times and multiple ways, so I believe that I’m prepared. The only problem is that Comcast isn’t publishing a ClearQAM channel list (yet?). And all the channels have been relocated and are no longer in order. Anyway, as of yesterday, below are the channels for the North Cobb header with both analog and ClearQAM. Only the analog below 23 still work.
The Channel Lineup:
Channel Description 2 WATC – 57 3 ABC Ch 2 4 Fox-5 5-802 Peachtree TV 5-808 GPB-PBS 6 NBC 7 Peachtree TV 8 GPB-PBS 9 ???? 10 CW 11 Religious 12 ION 13 ???? 14 Univision – ESP 15 WGN 16 17 18 19 HSN 20 QVC 22 Public Access 23 TV23 24 Cobb EdTV 25 Access 26 Access 29-2 NBC-HD 29-810 CW – HD 30 31 C-SPAN 32 Weather 33 TLC 34 CNN 34-1 Univision – ESP 35 Headline News 36 CNBC 37 Fox News 38 A&E 39 tbs 40 41 TNT 42 USA 43 FX 44 VS 45 --- 46 ESPN 47 48 49 50 MTV 51 VH1 52 --- 53 Sports South 54 ???? 55 Lifetime 56 E! 57 food 58 Tru 59 HGTV 60 Travel 61 Animal 62 Toon 63 Nick 63-1 TBN 64 Disney 65 TV Land 66 AMC 67 --- 68 Comedy 69 70 Bravo 71 72 BET 73 Telemuno 74 Syfy 75 Speed 76 77 78 Spike TV 80-201 ABC Ch 2 DTV 80-202 Fox-5 80-203 NBC DTV 80-204 Peachtree TV 80-205 GPB-PBS 80-206 CBS-46 DTV-WGCL 80-207 CW-69 80-208 Religious 80-209 ION 80-210 NBC – 11 Alive 80-212 PBA-30 PBS 81-5 Public Access 81-10 ???? 81-21 Public Access - Sales 81-22 Public Access-Roswell 81-23 Public Access- 23 81-24 Cobb EdTV 81-25 Public Access - Sales 81-26 Home Channel Sales 81-27 TV Guide Channel 81-32 Weather 82-39 TBS 82-120 85-101 CSS 85-102 Fox News 85-103 ESPN 85-104 ABC-Family 85-105 TNT 85-106 HGTV 85-107 FX 85-108 ESPN2 85-109 FS-South 85-110 CMT 85-111 WGN DTV 85-112 Religious - WATC-57 87-8 CBS-DTV 87-10 Empty 88-3 Ondemand-video feed 88-4 Nick - on demand feed? 88-7 Empty 88-9 Movie Feed 88-10 Empty 90-7 On demand Feed 90-9 Showtime-on demand 93-1 Comcast Weather 93-3 93-8 Telemuno 93-12 VS 93-56 E! 93-75 Speed 93-111 Hallmark 98-3 ABC HD Ch 2 HDTV 98-248 RTV 98-804 Fox-5 - HDTV 99-500 Cortesia VTV 99-521 GranCine – ESP 100-1 Ondemand-video feed 100-63 Religious-Daystar 103-101 BET 103-102 Cartoon 103-103 Comedy 103-104 MTV 103-105 Disney 103-106 Nick 103-107 SyFy 103-108 AMC 103-109 Discover 103-110 TLC 103-111 VH1 103-112 USA 104-201 C-SPAN 104-202 C-SPAN2 104-203 Animal 104-204 Travel 104-205 104-207 CNN 104-208 GOLF 104-209 HSN 104-210 QVC 104-212 Headline News 108-10 CBS-46HDTV 108-211 WXIA 11 -HDTV - Weather 108-245 Universal Sports – NBC 108-806 NBC - HDTV 116-2 PPV Previews
Just to be clear, if you use Comcast provided equipment, the channels probably didn’t change. Comcast performs a translation from the QAM channel into the normal 2-80 analog channels.
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Since last Friday, digital channel 93 and subchannels have extremely low power according to the ClearQAM TV. All the other channels appear with 4-5 bars, nice.
Call Comcast and schedule a TV and Phone service call.
The tech arrived today, Thursday, and did some signal measurements. In the end, removing the old VCR from the coax solved the problem. Interesting.
Onto the phone problem, a 10 sec delay in getting dial tone. Also, some phone calls never ring the phones. A few have been seen thanks to Google Voice. He does lots of tests looking for the issue. In the end, he determines that the signal coming from the street box is noisy and needs to be fixed. The VCR being removed from the coax may help (my thoughts, not his). Since the main symptom is the delayed dial tone and that takes awhile to be seen, this theory can’t be disproved until tomorrow morning.
All the analog channels from 27 up have been removed by Comcast. This actually happened in August or September 2009, but wasn’t important to me until I started setting up another Windows7 Media Center tuner with ClearQAM support. My old 7MC PC died and due to other computer system changes in the castle, I find myself with an extra C2D that I’d like to make into a Windows7 Media Center DVR.
So, Comcast decided to keep about 10 useful analog channels. The big locals and a few county government channels. Yeah! They did give 2 digital converter boxes to every home included in the monthly charges, but those don’t help VCRs record anything since VCRs don’t know how to change a digital cable channel. Brilliant. I’m not very happy with my County Utility Commissioners at all.