I live in the area, and yes it's the result of upgrades that were originally promised to be finished back around 2003 or so. Comcast head ends in Ross and Castle Shannon are going from an ancient 650mhz system to a new 1ghz system so we are finally going to get channels that everyone else in the area has had for about 9 months already (even though we always got to pay the same price) as well as a few newcomers.
Too little too late though as far as I'm concerned. I'm going to be moving in two months down the road to an area that has FIOS and I'm never going to look back. Even if FIOS has a lesser channel lineup than Comcast, Comcast has created too much bad faith with me over the years.
I'm sure this also has something to do with Verizon rolling out its new FiOS HD channel lineup (45 HD channels) in the Pittsburgh market on the 6th. FiOS still doesn't have Fox Sports Net HD though :(
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bull3964 @ Jul 3rd 2008 10:05AM
I live in the area, and yes it's the result of upgrades that were originally promised to be finished back around 2003 or so. Comcast head ends in Ross and Castle Shannon are going from an ancient 650mhz system to a new 1ghz system so we are finally going to get channels that everyone else in the area has had for about 9 months already (even though we always got to pay the same price) as well as a few newcomers.
Too little too late though as far as I'm concerned. I'm going to be moving in two months down the road to an area that has FIOS and I'm never going to look back. Even if FIOS has a lesser channel lineup than Comcast, Comcast has created too much bad faith with me over the years.
as6o @ Jul 3rd 2008 11:17AM
I'm sure this also has something to do with Verizon rolling out its new FiOS HD channel lineup (45 HD channels) in the Pittsburgh market on the 6th. FiOS still doesn't have Fox Sports Net HD though :(