icemannyr1
join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ | HBO & Cinemax Free Preview 9/5 - 9/8
Just a reminder that FiOS has an HBO & Cinemax Free Preview 9/5 - 9/8. |
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Baff
join:2007-12-05
Murrieta, CA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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September 1st, @05:59AM
| Where do you get this info from?
I don't think I have gotten anything from Verizon about it. Is there some website to watch where previews are announced?
There are several things on this weekend that are in my Netflix queue. There is also a new vampire show (True Blood) starting this weekend on HBO that I was curious about. |
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icemannyr1
join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ | reply to icemannyr1
One of the local cable ads running is a FiOS ad about the free weekend preview.
Some of the other forums also post the dates for the free previews. |
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Assault
join:2001-12-14
Garland, TX | reply to icemannyr1
will this be nationwide? |
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afiggatt
join:2007-07-12
Sterling, VA
| said by Assault  :will this be nationwide? Typically, the free preview weekends have been nationwide. I have not seen any announcements of the preview weekend, but I might have missed it. Also, in the past for the free preview period, the premium channels have the encryption turned off, so they can be viewed by any TV which is using a clear QAM tuner to view Fios channels. I'll have to re-check to see if Verizon has moved them, but for the markets that have NOT been re-aligned, the HD channels were at: QAM 94-xxx: HBO-HD, QAM 110-xxx: Cinemax-HD. |
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chitchatjf
join:2008-07-13
Lawrence, MA | reply to icemannyr1
The realigned markets (well NY and Boston) have 14 channels of HBO and 12 of Cinemax.  |
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texastown
join:2008-04-25
Plano, TX | reply to icemannyr1
Thank you for the info. I did not see anything about it and appreciate you giving us the notification. |
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ggma1126
Premium
join:2008-08-30
Claymont, DE | I am in N Delawar area and they called me today about it left a voice mail as I wasn't home |
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boomerd
join:2008-08-27
Plano, TX | reply to icemannyr1
Woo Hoo! Free Skin-emax for 3 nights!!! |
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matcarl
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | I saw the scroll on ch 49 today, it said to look for a message soon in the message center for more details. |
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fiosma
@verizon.net | reply to icemannyr1
Cinemax has been advertising about Tru HD which is starting from September 6th. |
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goose60
@verizon.net | reply to icemannyr1
what time doezs this start |
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icemannyr1
join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ | reply to icemannyr1
If the channels are not unlocked now they should be soon.
Usually they turn the channels on at 12am Friday and shut them off I few hours after 12am on Monday so you can catch the end of a movie that starts before 12am. |
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freehboprev
@verizon.net | still not on!!!!!!!! |
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matcarl
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | reply to icemannyr1
It's on here in NY, it's a four day preview. Will be on until early Tuesday morning. |
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as2higpark
join:2007-11-28
Braintree, MA | reply to icemannyr1
Anyone's OnDemand not working.
My channels work this morning, but the OnDemand still shows 'not subscribed' |
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afiggatt
join:2007-07-12
Sterling, VA
| reply to icemannyr1
The HBO and Cinemax SD and HD channels are now available to anyone with a clear QAM tuner as of this morning. I did a scan with a Samsung TV which has the useful feature of greying out in the channel list all the scrambled channels (does a second pass to find the unscrambled sub-channels). I think what Verizon does for the free preview periods is not to push out de-encryption codes to all STB/DVRs, but instead just turns off the encryption at the SHE so the STBs and DVRs passes them through and bypasses the normal subscription code checks.
In the Washington Metro market which has not yet gotten the re-alignment, the QAM channels are at:
HBO-HD: 94-612
Cinemax-HD: 110-614
The SD channels appear to be scattered along with other still scrambled sub-channels at QAM 92, 106, 108, 113.
In the markets that have the full slate of HBO and Cinemax HD channels, you or someone else will have to figure out where they are located. |
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Any
@rr.com | reply to icemannyr1
It's not working for me on Time Warner. Do I just tune to these channels, or do I have to click on buy or something. I don't know what to do. |
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Yaco
Yaco
Premium
join:2001-10-13
Allendale, NJ | reply to icemannyr1
Hi,
I called today for the free month. I just have to remind myself to cancel before Oct 1,
Lee |
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dt_dc
join:2006-09-27
Herndon, VA
| reply to afiggatt
said by afiggatt : The HBO and Cinemax SD and HD channels are now available to anyone with a clear QAM tuner as of this morning. "Free Previews" (even things like MLB EI) are generally / usually available via unencrypted QAM via cable providers (specifically, I've seen it with Cox and Comcast but most likely others as well.)
Of course ... special circumstances (a particular cable operator or individual plant policies / implementation ... technical issues like SDV ... bad PSIP ... etc) may prevent this but ... in general that's the case. Generalizations w/ cable providers are always ... problematic.
Good to know, though, that seems to be the case with Verizon too. Thanks. |
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