In today's (7/3) Business Section of the NY Times, a story about the failure of the 1-way CableCard. According to this story, so few people use it and cable...
I attempted to get a cablecard but was not successful. I don't want pay-per-view or DVR or the on-screen guide. I also didn't want digital cable. I just...
... When we had a CableCard from TWC, we had ESPN-HD. You can certainly get that from them, if that is what you want. ESPN-HD comes as part of the TWC "HD...
That is a stupid MLB rule, nothing to do with any cable provider. The NFL only blacks out everyone in a 35 mile radius while MLB blacks out the entire state....
This is nothing new. I grew up about an hour from New Orleans, and I remember my extended family renting a condo in Destin, Fla, so we could watch the...
ABC HAS HELD DISCUSSIONS ON the use of technology that would disable the fast-forward button on DVRs, according to ABC President of Advertising Sales Mike...
... Of course they want it disabled. They get paid for the work they do by advertisers estimates of how many people will see their ads. The more DVRs make a...
... Wayne, could you please say what program it was? I suspect that the 'protection' in this case is limited. I would bet that, if you put the box in SDTV ...
... It was the Sundance broadcast of Townes Van Zandt -- Be Here To Love Me. Everything else that's recorded says "Copy To VCR", except for this program, which...
I had TW's phone service installed on Tuesday. And, yes, someone deregistered my old modem before they registered the new one, and all my email accounts got ...
... Keeping in mind that we're discussing something that we don't know anything about in terms of actual implementation - the solution would be to not delete...
... You certainly have my sympathy which arises from past experience :( ... This is because the homepages are outsourced rather than being hosted by TW...
... I had assumed that removing the modem-association might be too fundamental to the structure of the current solution. Thus I was suggesting a kludge that I...
Peter, Given the long history of this issue, and the numerous times it has been "promised" to never occur again because human process and training has been put...
David Vanderschel wrote: Fortunately, most mailing lists do ... As a part-time volunteer email administrator for a non-profit, I can testify that this is...
This is a bigger issue than just modem swaps, I think. Something similar happened to me recently with cable boxes. Returned one, kept another, then get home...
I'm interested in faster upload and download speeds, and Business class has more than I need and is too expensive, so I've been looking at signing up for RR...
Yes! Four out of five times, they mess up when adding/removing components. The latest for me was losing DVR service when I returned one of four dvrs today....
... I think that is a minor issue compared to having your email accounts deleted. Yes, such a foulup can be caused by human error on TW's end. However,...
I wasn't trying to imply losing cable services was a bigger problem, perhaps I should have said it was a broader issue than just modem swaps. I was merely...
... Make sure you have a backup and check it again in a couple of days. When my account got zapped (also by a tech who did a modem swap at the house -- the...
Is anyone else having trouble with their VCR not automatically setting the clock? In the past two weeks, my VCR has decided that it's July 2 and about 5 hrs...
I have three of these boxes in my house and one of them is getting a really good signal (35-37 dB) on all HD channels except HBOHD and ShowtimeHD. On those two...
There are several things that are unique to that box. The cabling that runs to the outlet, the port of the splitter that cable originates from, the fitting on...
