Recent Comments:
Poll: Are you waiting for a Tuning Adapter? {Engadget HD}
May 25th 2008 12:30AM I will probably get some tuning adapters when they come out. But they sound like they may be just another hassle.
Hands-on with the Motorola Tuning Adapter MTR700 {Engadget HD}
May 19th 2008 12:05AM In the pictures it looks like the coax from the MTR700 to is connected to Antenna in on the TiVo HD. And the TiVo's cable in has its own coax. Hope this is is just an artifact of the way they did the demo and not something we will need to worry about.
Also, I will be very disappointed if the tuning adapter ends up degrading signal strength.
BTW, I have 4 TiVo HDs, I used to rent Scientific Atlanta (SA) DVRs from Comcast. The reliability, capabilities and ease of use of the TiVos so far exceeds that of the Comcast SA boxes, it is like night and day. Same goes for the TiVo customer support.
Poll: Have you been affected by over-compressed HD feeds? {Engadget HD}
Apr 5th 2008 12:56PM Earlier this week I started to see a lot of signal noise; pixelation, audio drop out, screen garbage etc on my HD channels. Also, I had three or four cable cards lose their pairing this week. I called up Comcast to re-pair those cable cards and they mentioned that VoD was currently being put in my area.
The VOD implementation could include the increased HD channel compression as part of the plan, the changes for VoD, itself, may have temporarily impacted signal quality/cc pairing, or the video/audio quality problems I have been seeing on HD channels may be completely unrelated (sun spots, anyone?).
However, Comcast is allegedly cramming three HD channels into each QAM, I see compression problems as the more likely suspect -- at least for the video issues. I have not heard that this may affect cable card pairing, but that is also a possibility.
