ncmikey
join:2003-05-27
Greensboro, NC
| HD Channel Additions in Greensboro
TWC has added ESPNnews-HD, Fam Chan-HD and Disney-HD to the Triad lineup. If those channels are your thing I guess it's good news, but I have no use for any of them. I would like to see USA-HD and my wife wants to see Lifetime-HD. BTW there was no announcement they were coming they just appeared in the channel lineup. |
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tasmithe
join:2002-09-16
Graham, NC | That's why I dropped TWC for DishNetwork. Got tired of a lame lineup of HD channels. Dish has USA and Sci-FI HD which are 2 channels I really wanted. |
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gamer999
join:2004-10-27
Richardson, TX | reply to ncmikey
My question is did you notice a diffrence in quality when you went to dish? The rurmor mills say that it's not as good and i have always wondered. |
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tasmithe
join:2002-09-16
Graham, NC | I have a critical eye and I didn't notice any change. Supposedly Dish compresses more but I, personally, haven't noticed it. |
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davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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July 19th, @02:29AM
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FYI... I'm housesitting this week at someone's house who has DirecTV HD... and the HD channels I watch most often look substantially better on DirecTV than they do on Time Warner in the Greensboro/Burlington market.
And the channels that are digital simulcasts of analog channels on Time Warner Greensboro look so much better on DirecTV I actually had to get face to face with the screen because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Comparing the 2 on same model, same size LCD TVs. The only difference is at home I watch on a SA 8300HDC and here they have a DirecTV HD DVR - the black version.
I had also forgotten how nice the DirecTV guide was compared to the one on the SA 8300's. Not as nice as a TiVo but DirecTV has come a LONG way fast while Time Warner appears to be stuck in the 1980's.
}Davoice |
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MattE
Obama '08
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
 ·Corporate Colocation
| reply to ncmikey
I have DirecTV HD and Time Warner HD ... the DirecTV picture is better, at least in this market like davoice  said.
The guide on DirecTV is 100% better, but the DirecTV outages are a PITA. Also, I live in a townhome, so they have to drill holes in the wall and run multiple wires for the DVR if you want to record more than one channel, whereas Time Warner can send 3 streams across one wire. |
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