Tag Archives: Cable

Fun with Charter Customer Support

Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 by MegaZone

So, shortly after 22:00 Friday night I checked my TiVo Series3 and attempted to watch my in-progress recording of Shockwave off HistoryHD. But it was null – so going to LiveTV I get the ‘Searching for signal’ error. Checking other … Continue reading →

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Bright House Giveth, And Bright House Taketh Away – And Giveth Back

Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by MegaZone

Back in February Bright House cable decided to pull HD channels from their CableCARD customers. This, understandably, created a backlash of complaints from users, as there wasn’t a good reason for the loss of the channels. Bright House did it … Continue reading →

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CableCARD Deployments Break The 4 Million Mark

Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 by MegaZone

As reported by Multichannel News, cable MSOs have deployed 4.18 million CableCARD-enabled STBs in the last nine months. 1.9 million of those have been deployed since the last industry report on December 26th. However, as of March 19th, only approximately … Continue reading →

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Panasonic To Ship Tru2Way-enabled VIERA HDTVs This Summer

Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 by MegaZone

A couple of months ago at CES Panasonic was one of the vendors showing off Tru2way, nee OCAP, products. At the time I focused on their ‘portable DVR‘, which I still think is a poor idea. But what I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Bright House Giveth, And Bright House Taketh Away – From TiVo Owners

Posted on Friday, February 8, 2008 by MegaZone

There’s an article in today’s Orlando Sentinel about Bright House cable yanking four HD channels (HGTV HD, TBS HD, The History Channel HD, and Food Network HD) away from CableCARD users who have had them since last October. It seems … Continue reading →

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