anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?
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mikedz4 @ 27th Oct 06:34AM:
anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

Has anyone received the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet? I received 3 new sd channels. retirement living tv, hallmark movie channel and halo whatever halo is.

We received mlb hd yesterday but no new hds yet today for some reason.
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Fireman Tom @ 27th Oct 12:21PM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

nope, nothing here.
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Fireman Tom @ 27th Oct 01:48PM:
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»www.comcastchannelchangetrr.com/
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Pullo @ 27th Oct 02:18PM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

Some sort of problem or delay in parts of Westmoreland County Pa,No DTA's available per this:

»pa.mypublicnotices.com/PublicNot···=1612460
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Mgsports @ 27th Oct 03:39PM:
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Noticed just before 10pm last night 292-Halogen a new Channel so what's next another Channel using a Science word other then Oxygen and it's by the Church Channels not by like Current TV or Fine Living or so on.
I hoping for a Website that for my area.
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Zifnab @ 27th Oct 04:14PM:
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I think some parts of the Pittsburgh area are changing tomorrow (28th)? I know my father got the new channels, but he's in the south hills area up closer to the city itself.
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anon @ 27th Oct 08:10PM:
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We got everything they promised here in Canonsburg. Spike HD isn't displaying info in the guide but it's all there. Any word on the next round? A rep told me that there would be more before the end of this year.
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HankSpud @ 27th Oct 09:21PM:
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Yes they appeared today. I am especially fond of the NBA TV HD, now I can follow the PGH Penguins.....oops forgot that would have to be on NHL Network HD.......what's up Comcast ?? If there is someone in the know please explain how the certain new channels were selected. Instead of NHL and maybe ESPNU in Hd we get NBA and the Biography channel HD. At this rate we could reach 100 HD channels by 2015.
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mikedz4 @ 27th Oct 09:37PM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

that's what i think. Why not add espnu,espn news, nhl and maybe weather channel instead of the ones they added??
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mikedz4 @ 27th Oct 09:39PM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

btw here in northern west virginia we didn't do the changes yet. Maybe they will wait and do a massive change like they are doing over the rest of the country and we will see 40 or 50 new hd channels in november or december.
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anon @ 27th Oct 10:02PM:
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i got mlb network hd today in mckeesport but nuthin else
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anon @ 28th Oct 07:09AM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

said by mikedz4 :

Has anyone received the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet? I received 3 new sd channels. retirement living tv, hallmark movie channel and halo whatever halo is.

We received mlb hd yesterday but no new hds yet today for some reason.

it got here today but i dnt like how they move changes to high pks instead of moving some. Nw i got to so down stairs to watch cartoonetwork and vh1!!!!
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mikedz4 @ 28th Oct 11:15AM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

eventually they will give people with out enough digital boxes 2 free dtas and 1 free digital box. I think some areas in the region already have them available so you might want to call or go to your local office.
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mikedz4 @ 29th Oct 09:25AM:
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they announced that the city of pittsburgh and suburbs will go all digital in january. The rest of the region will go all digital before april 2010.
I haven't seen an formal announcement or a website yet.
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anon @ 29th Oct 07:52PM:
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Anyone else not have the guide info for Spike HD? I called Comcast and the sent a signal to my box but no luck. I am in the Canonsburg area.
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Fireman Tom @ 29th Oct 10:33PM:
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No updates for Steubenvile again.
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mikedz4 @ 30th Oct 02:17AM:
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steubenvill will be the last to get updated because their elderly went to the meetings saying they were upset comcast was making them rent digital boxes and not lowering their rates. Actually I think they are a prime candidate for world of more. Steubenville-weirton may get it at the same time pittsburgh gets it. What I don't understand is if steubenville and weirton share a headend now why don't we have the same lineup?
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Fireman Tom @ 30th Oct 08:45AM:
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Steubenville and Weirton do not share the same headend. Steubenville is on a 550 system Weirton is on a 750 system. We pay the same rates as Weirton, but have not even close the channels that Weirton has.
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mikedz4 @ 31st Oct 12:34AM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

i have been told by regional and corporate that weirton and steubenville share the same headend. They combined the headends somehow. That is why I get the weather channel from steubenville instead of how it used to be when the headend was in weirton we got it from northern west virginia.
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Fireman Tom @ 31st Oct 11:37AM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

I have been told by many Comcast people that they are different, that is why the channel lineup is not the same. I wish Comcast combined them so Steubenville would get the same channels as Weirton.
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mikedz4 @ 31st Oct 12:45PM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

those same people told me they combined the headends into one when att tookover which is why i get steubenville's forecast instead of weirton's.
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Fireman Tom @ 4th Nov 11:29AM:
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?

Mike,
I talked to my guy from Comcast again and they do not share Headends.
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mikedz4 @ 4th Nov 08:04PM:
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why did they tell me they could only have one weatherstar for this area then?

" I have gotten word back about The Weather Channel. Our tech supervisors
contacted The Weather Channel directly and were advised that the local
weather has always come from Steubenville. The weather comes from the
local headend for the cable and Weirton's headend is in Steubenville,
OH. The main heading should be showing Steubenville Area during the
local on the 8's and Weirton is considered in the Steubeville viewing
area."
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Fireman Tom @ 4th Nov 08:27PM:
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Not sure why, but Steubenville is on a 550 system Weirton is on a 750 system. They are two different systems and that is why Steubenville lacks the channel lineup that Weirton has.
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markofmayhem @ 5th Nov 11:20AM:
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Weirton/Steubenville is within the New Castle-Pittsburgh region. A head-end can service more than one "system". A single local weather tie-in can service multiple head-ends, the equipment does not need to be installed in each head-end, but a head-end can only use one data point per "system". Steubenville-Weirton is considered one location, not two, by just about every organization in the world excluding government and residents who think the world is smaller than it is. The Corliss St. "head-end" services us all:

Choose the "Satellite" view

From left to right, between the 2nd and 3rd building: this is where Weirton and Steubenville's TNT, HBO, ESPN, etc. comes from.

Headends have changed over the years, they can be anywhere from the super-complex above to a shack in the woods. Fiber has become less expensive to run over the years, lowering the requirement for actually constructing brick-and-mortar buildings to be needed for cable TV. Fiber run to nodes can run longer distances and is much, much cheaper than a building with mux-servers and staff. A "system" is simply a shared last-mile fiber run servicing nodes, multiple "systems" can originate from the same "head-end".

So when you asked about "head-end", were you answered on where your node's fiber run terminates into the local network or where the building that muxes your channel line-up is generated? They can be two completely different locations, in most cases, this is multiple locations.

Traceroute from 750mhz system that received the HD updates same day as the South Hills of PGH in New Cumberland, WV to DSLREPORTS.COM:
Node -> Wintersville, OH -> E. Liverpool, OH -> Beaver Falls, PA -> Corliss Street, PGH (in 1st map above) -> world

The copper cable line to my house terminates at a node near King's Creek. The fiber line then runs down Pensylvania Ave on to Route 2. I loose it around the intersection where Kroger's is. I am on the "City of Weirton" cable system.
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