technoevil Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 I heard on the news that in January Time Warner Cable and Road Runner in the Houston area will be changing to Comcast. Heres the story from channel 13. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=...&id=4423119 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 My uncle in Fort Worth told me that all Roadrunner customers had to change there email or I P addresses when Comcast enter there market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groovehouse Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 I am so not looking forward to this assinine switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxmulder Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 I am so not looking forward to this assinine switch.I have earthlink any idea what will happend(i use TW cable) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Is this going to be a problem editor. if so im throwing Times under the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Is this going to be a problem editor. if so im throwing Times under the bus. Shouldn't be a big problem. Just like any other time you change your e-mail address, you should update it in your user profile. There's a slight chance it might make your HAIFing faster at some point in the future because the HAIF server is next to a Comcast network, though not directly linked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Shouldn't be a big problem. Just like any other time you change your e-mail address, you should update it in your user profile.There's a slight chance it might make your HAIFing faster at some point in the future because the HAIF server is next to a Comcast network, though not directly linked.Comcast says we can keep our old RR email accounts-no change required so they say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Comcast has 10X the Video On Demand that TimeWarner did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Shouldn't be a big problem. Just like any other time you change your e-mail address, you should update it in your user profile.There's a slight chance it might make your HAIFing faster at some point in the future because the HAIF server is next to a Comcast network, though not directly linked. I never had to change my email address but thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Comcast has NFL Network, the only channel that I care about (besides ESPN, ESPN 2, and FSN for Rockets games). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston1stWordOnTheMoon Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Comcast takes over Houston market from Time WarnerComcast Corp. and Time Warner Inc. have completed their previously announced redistribution of their assets in Kansas City, south and west Texas and New Mexico. As part of the deal, Comcast is now the cable provider for approximately 790,000 subscribers in the Houston area who were previously Time Warner customers..... more here http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto...ml?surround=lfn Looks like Jan 1 2007 was the official change over. I have a reduction in my bill, does anyone else here have a reduction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 I just notice that 321 KPRC ch. 2 @ 310 KHOU ch. 11 has not been on for a day or so. Radar station's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1fd Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Looks like Jan 1 2007 was the official change over. I have a reduction in my bill, does anyone else here have a reduction?Nice. How big of a reduction? I'm expecting a reduction this month, but it was because I called and complained, and got a discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston1stWordOnTheMoon Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Nice. How big of a reduction? I'm expecting a reduction this month, but it was because I called and complained, and got a discount.We got the reduction because the wife called and complained several times. Apparently there were several cable outages and the internet connection in the rest of the house continued crashing-they use roadrunner. The monthly bill went from $109 a month down to $73 and some change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Hi! First time poster..... So does anybody know if we can currently order on demand from Comast and get the WWE 24/7 channel? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Hi! First time poster..... So does anybody know if we can currently order on demand from Comast and get the WWE 24/7 channel? Thanks in advance.here you go WWE Cable Systems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orikal Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 We had Comcast when we lived in Boston, and the customer service was fantastic. I think I'll be switching back to DirecTV though, because IMHO cable's HD channels are horrid. In some instances the picture quality is worse than the regular broadcast channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 We had Comcast when we lived in Boston, and the customer service was fantastic. I think I'll be switching back to DirecTV though, because IMHO cable's HD channels are horrid. In some instances the picture quality is worse than the regular broadcast channels. Uh-oh! I smell a Dish/cable debate coming on. Welcome to the forum Jman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orikal Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Uh-oh! I smell a Dish/cable debate coming on. Welcome to the forum Jman! No, no... Not here to debate (at least about this). Just offering my 2 pennies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Now i can't get the CNN International Channel. I guess there flipping switches and Knob's over there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark F. Barnes Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 We had Comcast when we lived in Boston, and the customer service was fantastic. I think I'll be switching back to DirecTV though, because IMHO cable's HD channels are horrid. In some instances the picture quality is worse than the regular broadcast channels.I agree the HDTV quality is much better on DTV. My son has Cable and you can definitely see the difference on the network channels HD broadcast. And I really am not sure I understand why, I would think you would get a truer digital signal thru cable than you would over the Sat bounce. Any short wave Guru's out there that can shed any light on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1fd Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I agree the HDTV quality is much better on DTV. My son has Cable and you can definitely see the difference on the network channels HD broadcast. And I really am not sure I understand why, I would think you would get a truer digital signal thru cable than you would over the Sat bounce. Any short wave Guru's out there that can shed any light on that?The cable company has to compress the signal more....they still have the overhead of all the analog channels sucking up a TON of bandwidth. They have to pack all the digital channels down into the remaining space. The satellite company doesn't have to worry about the excess bandwidth consumption of any analog channels....they're all compressed digital streams, so they can afford to relax the compression some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark F. Barnes Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 The cable company has to compress the signal more....they still have the overhead of all the analog channels sucking up a TON of bandwidth. They have to pack all the digital channels down into the remaining space. The satellite company doesn't have to worry about the excess bandwidth consumption of any analog channels....they're all compressed digital streams, so they can afford to relax the compression some.Makes sense thanks........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 The cable company has to compress the signal more....they still have the overhead of all the analog channels sucking up a TON of bandwidth. They have to pack all the digital channels down into the remaining space. The satellite company doesn't have to worry about the excess bandwidth consumption of any analog channels....they're all compressed digital streams, so they can afford to relax the compression some.That must be why those new HD local channels can have 3 or 4 stations under that same channels now. They each have a 24/7 weather station and one even has a music video channel called "The Tube". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orikal Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 The cable company has to compress the signal more....they still have the overhead of all the analog channels sucking up a TON of bandwidth. They have to pack all the digital channels down into the remaining space. The satellite company doesn't have to worry about the excess bandwidth consumption of any analog channels....they're all compressed digital streams, so they can afford to relax the compression some.Wow, thanks. I've always wondered the reason behind that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I wonder if that means people with houston.rr.com will lose that domain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1fd Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I wonder if that means people with houston.rr.com will lose that domain?From what I've heard, yes...Wow, thanks. I've always wondered the reason behind that.Yep...that's also the reason they're pushing the digital cable boxes....they want everybody to have a digital cable box so they can get all that analog out of their pipes, and offer even MORE channels/services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonMidtown Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Does anyone know anything definate whether or not we will have to change our email addresses? I tried calling RR support - that was a waste of time !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Does anyone know anything definate whether or not we will have to change our email addresses? I tried calling RR support - that was a waste of time !!From what I've read yes, email addresses will eventually change. However there will be a long phase-in period during which both the RR and Comcast addresses will work. The best thing to do to avoid that kind of problem is use an address from hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc. instead of from your ISP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1fd Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 From what I've read yes, email addresses will eventually change. However there will be a long phase-in period during which both the RR and Comcast addresses will work. The best thing to do to avoid that kind of problem is use an address from hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc. instead of from your ISP.No...the best thing to do is to buy your own domain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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