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Roger 9
08-04-2011, 07:39 PM
As most of you already know, I have DirecTV but because I am in a condo I get BHN basic.

I am starting to get my house back after some major renovations that forced me to take my DTV box offline for about five days and watched BHN in my bedroom. The TV is directly wired in, no box and was surprised to see the thing that forced me away from cable in the first place.

No matter what BHN did they could not stop my HD signal from continuously blocking and I got tired of it. They told me the lines are so old that when there was heavy demand on my trunk line it was going to happen.

SURPRISE!

I don't need a box and/or HD to have it happen. The blocking happened on TNT - in SD no less - and the blocking started. 8O WTF 8O

It was bad enough BHN stomped on TNT promotions for upcoming shows for their commercials (their timers were off by a few seconds so you saw the beginning of the spots) but how the heck does an SD signal go goofy?

Sure glad I am a DirecTV customer. :D
pilotbob
08-05-2011, 03:48 PM
It was bad enough BHN stomped on TNT promotions for upcoming shows for their commercials (their timers were off by a few seconds so you saw the beginning of the spots) but how the heck does an SD signal go goofy?


Are you talking about analog with macro blocking? Hmm... there must be some digital in there somewhere. On analog you would see "snow" type stuff.

BOb
Roger 9
08-05-2011, 05:30 PM
Are you talking about analog with macro blocking? Hmm... there must be some digital in there somewhere. On analog you would see "snow" type stuff.

BOb

Bob, it was analog - TNT channel 33. That's what I didn't understand.
ispgeek
08-17-2011, 10:30 PM
Bob, it was analog - TNT channel 33. That's what I didn't understand.

Then the blocking didn't happen with BHN but more likely than not it was the provider that was having problems. It might have been a plant issue but that would have generated lots of complaints about the same thing and I have not seen anything that would indicate such a problem.
chetly
09-09-2011, 08:51 PM
I thought they were pushing "digital" signals over the analog...wasn't that the reason for those people needing to get boxes or lose certain channels.? Two TV's in my house are on HD boxes, but one in the office is an analog TV with direct coax in....I get macroblocking on my channels sometimes....2-99 is all I get.....
ispgeek
09-11-2011, 12:06 PM
I thought they were pushing "digital" signals over the analog...wasn't that the reason for those people needing to get boxes or lose certain channels.? Two TV's in my house are on HD boxes, but one in the office is an analog TV with direct coax in....I get macroblocking on my channels sometimes....2-99 is all I get.....

Between 2-99 without a box...that would not be macroblocking.