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May 18, 2009

Which Digital Transition are you talking about?

Read all about it at MercuryNews.Com This article clearly illustrates how Comcast has and continues to deceived the public in regard to the impact of the governemnt mandated digital transition on their customers. Comcast has stated in TV ads and on its Web site that customers don’t have to be concerned about the government transition because if they have analog televisions, Comcast [...]

Read all about it at MercuryNews.Com

This article clearly illustrates how Comcast has and continues to deceived the public in regard to the impact of the governemnt mandated digital transition on their customers.

  • Comcast has stated in TV ads and on its Web site that customers don’t have to be concerned about the government transition because if they have analog televisions, Comcast will translate the digital signals to analog ones.
  • The original governemnt transition date was for mid-February, but has been rescheduled to mid-June.
  • Comcast is in the midst of its own digital transition project which began in March…JUST WEEKS AFTER THE ORIGINAL GOVERNEMNT TRANSITION DATE.
  • Comcast customers with analog TV sets WILL REQUIRE a converter box to translate the signal from digital to analog.

Comcast’s ads assuring customers they didn’t have to worry about the digital broadcast transition have never made note that they would soon need to deal with a digital cable transition. And while those commercials have been running widely on Comcast’s networks for a year or so now, long before broadcasters were slated to shut off their analog signals, the company didn’t start talking about its own transition until early February, about six weeks before it planned to start rolling it out.  Even then, the marketing messages have tended to target customers in specific communities immediately before Comcast upgraded its system in those areas, rather than in a mass-marketing campaign like the ones use to deceive.

The Shaqnstein monster is out of control.  Bring on the FIRE and we’ll burn it down!

April 8, 2009

Comcast Reduces HD Quality to Cram in More Channels

See the detailed proof and picture quality comparison between FiOS and Comcast at AVSForum Forum member BFDTV has been conducting a detailed and intense comparison of HDTV signals being broadcast by various companies, Comcast and Verizon included.  His study continues and all of his findings along with the details and sources are included. Here is [...]

See the detailed proof and picture quality comparison between FiOS and Comcast at AVSForum

Forum member BFDTV has been conducting a detailed and intense comparison of HDTV signals being broadcast by various companies, Comcast and Verizon included.  His study continues and all of his findings along with the details and sources are included.

Here is one example…you be the judge:

FiOS - Red Hot Chilli Peppers Live on MHD

FiOS - Red Hot Chilli Peppers Live on MHD

 

ComCrap - Red Hot Chili Peppers Live on MHD

ComCrap - Red Hot Chili Peppers Live on MHD

There are pleanty more examples availble.  For those of you that have been on Twitter or other forums complaining about pixelation and the overall Comcast signal quality…IT MAY NOT BE THE SIGNAL AT ALL!!!  It may be the result of Comcast OVER COMPRESSING certain channels so that they can fit more garbage channels into their lineup.

Here is a sample of the SIZE of the signal being sent down the pipe by these two carriers.  The difference in size directly translates to picture quality.

                                            FiOS          Comcast           Difference

AETV HD                                18.66 Mbps      14.48 Mbps           -28.9%
Discovery HD                       14.16 Mbps      10.43 Mbps           -35.8%
Discovery HD Theater      17.45 Mbps      12.60 Mbps           -38.5%
Food Network HD               14.32 Mbps      13.73 Mbps            -4.3%
HGTV HD                                14.76 Mbps      12.43 Mbps           -18.7%
MHD                                          17.73 Mbps      13.21 Mbps           -34.2%
National Geographic HD   13.40 Mbps      11.92 Mbps           -12.4%
Universal HD                         12.72 Mbps      11.01 Mbps           -15.5%

HBO HD                                     8.87 Mbps       8.81 Mbps           -0.7%
Cinemax HD                          11.40 Mbps      10.77 Mbps            -5.8%
Starz HD                                  11.93 Mbps       9.76 Mbps           -22.2%

BFDTV comments, “The greatest differences are seen with movement. With slow movement on Comcast, the first thing you notice is added noise and a softer image, as fine detail is filtered from the picture signal. The greater the rate of movement, the more detail you lose and the more noise you see. With intense movement, you see more blocking and skipped frames. In VideoRedo, I noticed that a number of frames in the FiOS signal simply did not exist in the Comcast signal during motion intensive scenes. This may be responsible for the stutter and excessive motion blur seen with some video sequences on Comcast.”

…and the saga continues.  Remeber all of the money you spent on that nice wall mounted HDTV set?  Here’s an idea, take the money you are throwing away on Comcast and build up your BLURAY disc collection!  (-;

March 25, 2009

Non-Discrimination: Comcast screws Disabled & Unemployed too

Read this little gem at RipOffReport Deedra of Bothell, Washington is disabled and unemployed and wants nothing more than the most basic of television packages that Comcast sees fit to offer.  She has been a customer for 6 long years and has NEVER received all of the channels she is supposed to receive. “I subscribe [...]

Read this little gem at RipOffReport

Deedra of Bothell, Washington is disabled and unemployed and wants nothing more than the most basic of television packages that Comcast sees fit to offer.  She has been a customer for 6 long years and has NEVER received all of the channels she is supposed to receive.

“I subscribe to the most basic level of service. Note: I do not expect inferior service because of this, but Comcast seems to have a different opinion.”  But Deedra darling, WE ARE COMCAST.  We piss on you for a living,

“Comcast has provided the worst service for the longest time of any company I’ve ever been involved with.”  …and proud of it, ’cause we’re Comcast, BIOTCH.

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