OT: Center Ice Package weirdness

Can't answer your question, but you may want to specify how YOU get it. There was one day that I was watching something on cable and a friend was watching the same thing on dish, and one of us had problems that the other didn't.

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Expletives barely deleted Comcast.

We have the DirecTV feed.... We just have to deal with weird black out rules

but the other day, I was watching something and the picture and sound on one channel were offset. It was funny at first but then just got annoying. I figure it was Spike (I was watching old CSI episodes) and it was out of sync on both TV's and between the HD feed and the not HS feed.

Once upon a time, we had something reliable called "over the air analog TV" and if you lived close enough to the transmission tower, the only problem you ever had was if there was a power outage.

Then someone came up with the idea of digital. I was first introduced to this when one cable channel went digital and suddenly the picture was regularly freezing or pixillating, which didn't happen on the channels that were still using analog technology.

And now the whole system is digital, and the whole system has problems, because young'uns refuse to believe that sometimes the old way is the best way.

Newer is NOT always better.

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Don't get me started on those. Why would the HD broadcast of the Caps be blacked out, but not the regular one. And the Caps are over 100 miles away, so not exactly local, either. Not that there are any Caps fans here. I'm trying to get this sound thing ironed out before baseball season. The baseball package shares channels with Center Ice. Comcast is supposed to come tomorrow (we'll see) and I'm pretty sure they'll tell be the problem is not at the level of my house and they can't fix it yadda, yadda. Talking to Comcast is like beating my head on the wall. Sara

I can't pick up any broadcast with any antenna where I live. So the old way, which which I grew up, won't work at all here, or in many other places.

Sara

I live right in the heart of the city, and can't get anything with just antenna, either. #1, the transmission towers are located in a suburb, not at the studio (which is only a mile or two away). #2, they tell me the density of the buildings also prevents receiving broadcasts in the heart of town.

There are enough trees in the neighborhood to make it almost impossible to find a clear view for a satellite dish, so I'm stuck paying for cable or I have no TV at all.

Thank you, Congress, for not listening to all the people (including me) who wrote and explained to you why digital conversion was not a good idea, because the signal doesn't travel as far as analog.

Next time there's a hurricane and the cable goes out, there will be a whole lot of people who won't know what's going on, because they won't be able to get TV at all. When my cable went out during a big storm, I discovered that my favorite radio station does almost no news, and "weather" consists of what's going on right now, not a forecast. The only radio station that did a decent news/weather required me to listen to Rush Limbaugh and others like him to hear it (or do nothing but sit and clockwatch to make sure I changed the station at the top of the hour). Because God forbid they should pre-empt Rush to provide more-frequent news about how long the storm was going to last and how many people were without power. Channel 3, in such situations, turns the entire day over to the weather department, but not one radio station I could find did more than comment "still raining here in [part of town]", other than the one with Rush.

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That's odd. I have Directv and nothing is ever blacked out, which is what the promissed when we purchased Center Ice. Cheryl if you have Center Ice you should complain.

-Margaret in MA

we did - we have a different contract based on the state we live in.

Not only that but, if you didn't get a picture, you'd still at least get the sound so you could *listen* to the show. Now, if the digital picture goes, it all goes.

Since I don't have cable (not available in the country), we rely on the antenna, which is *very* fussy!

True!