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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Sept 15, 2018 15:39:01 GMT -5
Last night during the nine o’lock Hour, both of the Houston stations that have late local news at that hour had technical issues. So, I tuned in one of the other stations ad waited until the ten o’clock hour. At 10:35, one of the affected stations was working again. They were both fixed this morning. Although on my Comcast Xfinity streaming, I forgot the local stations come in at two channel positions: one single or double digits, the other up in the 600s. Didn't check to see if they came in at the higher-numbered positions.
And, looking at the original message, I shouldn't try to send messages in the wee small hours of the morning. Can't type worth a darn, missing letters here and there!
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Oct 12, 2018 14:58:36 GMT -5
Had a couple of glitches watching Xfinity Instant TV on my ROKU in the past couple of days. Channels that showed up but you couldn't tune into them. That said, it is a beta service where you don't have to pay for a cable STB because you brought your own.
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wb6yyz
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Post by wb6yyz on Oct 13, 2018 13:29:09 GMT -5
I solved these problems by not watching Television! Total waste of time IMHO
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Oct 13, 2018 14:39:27 GMT -5
I solved these problems by not watching Television! Total waste of time IMHO The major use I have for a TV set is to use it as a 54.6" computer monitor. Mine spends about half of its life as a ThinkPad display. And the news. Can't forget the news. Although there's a lot less of it on the weekend. My housemate's former girlfriend was amazed at the amount of CNBC I can soak up. When I turned it on on the living room TV, she'd say "No Squawk!" That's the reason I got a TV in the business room post-Harvey. Pre-Harvey, I did have an Apple Thunderbolt Display, but nowadays TV sets are better and cheaper.
People that come see me (I'm the main bill payer of the house) are amazed at the huge computer display in my business room.
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Post by wb6yyz on Oct 14, 2018 23:23:28 GMT -5
I want to get a big "TV Set" for gaming. Then again, if VR finally gets good enough where it doesn't look like you are looking through a window screen at it, I'd want to get that for gaming. I had an Oculus Rift DK2 for awhile and except for the grainy display, the concept was fantastic. It was more like being there.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Oct 15, 2018 15:23:23 GMT -5
I want to get a big "TV Set" for gaming. If you shop around, you can get a 55-inch class 4K HDR smart TV set for less than $400. I bought one the middle of January, and I do about an equal amount of watching TV and using it as a video monitor. My ThinkPad has a HDMI output, and my TV has three HDMI inputs. I have an over-the-air antenna as a backup, but most of the TV I do is via streaming.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Oct 15, 2018 17:10:17 GMT -5
The streaming video of local channels was glitching out momentarily earlier today. We had a cold front and thunderstorms come through. Kind of like digital TV: either comes in great or with pixelated blocks. Don't know how much the signal goes over the air to get on the Internet.
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wb6yyz
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Post by wb6yyz on Oct 15, 2018 23:35:10 GMT -5
Sound like there was a Ku band link in their somewhere.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Oct 27, 2018 22:01:42 GMT -5
I need to call Comcast Customer Care because they have an old account in their system for me. Their system won't let you enter your cell phone number or E-mail address as contact points for an account if it's on file for another account! After multiple calls to and from Customer Care, they let me enter my cell phone number as a contact point. But they still have the old E-mail address floating around in their system.
Am I the only one of their millions of customers to have this problem?
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Oct 27, 2018 22:49:59 GMT -5
I came up with a solution to Comcast's wonderful feature: I defined a new E-mail address. It's effectively an alias to the E-mail address I wanted to use, it forwards to that E-mail address.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 1, 2018 18:30:23 GMT -5
More streaming video glitches this afternoon. Unfortunately, not all of them were during political commercials.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 13, 2018 21:18:08 GMT -5
Elections finished up about a week ago. I can say one thing: the political ads were more entertaining than the lawyer ads they replaced! More wind howling from the north last night, more streaming TV pixelated blocks. But only on one station.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 15, 2018 19:13:43 GMT -5
Had a glitch last night during the ten o'clock news: streaming data wasn't coming in. Tried loading an updated ROKU client with no improvement. Ended out resetting the cable modem. Also hit my ThinkPad, but it failed over to its integrated mobile broadband modem. I could tell it got the PlayStation in the living room because I could hear our resident SMITE fanatic cussing!
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 26, 2018 18:31:19 GMT -5
Had a glitch over the weekend. Tried to turn on the local NBC ("Never Been Correct") station and it didn't show up in the list of channels on my Comcast Xfinity Instant TV. Imagine not being able to get one of Comcast's own channels on their service! Exited out of the ROKU client and tried again,. It appeared on the second try. It came up fine today.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 30, 2018 16:54:16 GMT -5
Opened today's snail mail. Yet another comeback ploy from AT&T DirecTV. This one offered a $300 VISA gift card and service for a year at $19.95 a month. When are the smooth cerebrums at AT&T going to figure out I dumped their service because it's flaky at best? They say "99% reliable" but that must be in the desert. On the Gulf Coast, where they get storms one day out of six pretty much the year round, it's sure not 99% reliable. I like seeing weather forecasts when there is weather outside! And AT&T DirecTV only has the main digital subchannel from the local stations. Comcast streaming has the dot channels too. And you can get your TV without hanging coax all over the house. I was able to turn off AT&T's E-mail and wish I could do the same thing with their snail mail.
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