[tabi] Re: Comcast
- From: "blindwilly" <blindwilly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:39:31 -0400
Chip,
I have heard that I can just get a plug in card for a modern flat screen TV.
Do you know anything about this or where to get it or how to find the plug in
place?
Willy
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Orange
To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:34 PM
Subject: [tabi] Re: Comcast
Hi Darla,
You don't need to do anything except get a new box.
FYI, for some strange reason the new box will only give you the digital
version of the same channels you had under premium basic cable; that is, those
under 100.
However, at no charge, you can call Comcast and get switched over to "digital
starter", which adds a lot of extra channels above 100. It costs no more than
premium basic cable, and it made sense back when premium basic was preferred by
those who didn't want a cable box; this was a way comcast was using to get
people to switch to digital (by offering it at no extra charge).
but now that we all *must* have a box for anything other than the 6 local
channels, it makes no sense not to switch us all over to digital starter! But
no, you must call and ask for it! It's really needless.
Those 6 local channels by the way, Comcast is required by the FCC to offer
those to you in analog format (so no cable box), and at a price around $12 a
month. So if that's all you want, insist enough and you can have just those
(now pushed to channels 2 through 7), and no cable box.
For those who want more than that, for about $15 more you can get even more
digital channels with the next level of digital plan ("digital preferred").
and for those with sighted people in the house, be aware that all this talk
of digital cable does not mean HD at all! You get ABC in HD (and perhaps all
the local channels in HD I'm still trying to verify that), but nothing else.
Digital is still being sent to you by Comcast at standard TV resolution.
You have to pay more for a group of HD channels, and the first level of HD
package is $8 a month more. These are channels numbered higher than 384; so
any channel above that is HD, but it almost always just an HD version of a
channel you're already getting in lower resolution. Of course, you must have a
new HD TV.
It's amazingly difficult to get all of this explained to you by a Comcast
rep, and it's a modern miracle if you can find it on the Comcast web site!
Hth,
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Darla J. Rogers
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:19 AM
To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tabi] Comcast
It appears we don't have TV now; is it easy to reset the boxes when we get it
back?
Darla
Darla J. Rogers
djrogers0628@xxxxxxxxxxx
Home phone #: 850-329-7437
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