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Originally Posted by BroadHopper
The same with Metrocast, 9.1 is Channel 9 hi def. And the weasels wants you to rent a box! When I told them about getting hi def without the box, they say I am not suppose to do that. They advertised free Hi Def, yet you have to pay for extra to rent a Hi Def box. Isn't that false advertising???
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When we got our very first LCD flat screen TV, I printed out the channel guide and tried to select the various channels, thinking that I could now get ESPN HD....did not connect up with 728 selected.
However, by scrolling throught the channels, I was able to find several, but not all the "HD" channels that Metrocast listed for free. What I couldn't do was select ch 72.3 and get whatever was on that for HD. I could select 9.2 and get METV NH. (Ch 9's ME TV).
So I called Metrocast and they said I was picking up the over the air channels. To select the HD channels as listed, I would have to get the box. We agreed to it, and they said that an installer would have to come out.
When he got there, I asked him why I couldn't have just picked up the box and installed it myself. He said in essence I could, with a little help from tech support, assuming the signal was strong enough. He told me what was needed as we got to where the TV was. He hooked it up, and as he turned in on, told me what we needed again. Not even close.
So we started tracing the wiring, and found several splitters, starting in the box outside, and then in the crawl space, and then at the modem, there were TWO, from when we went to the "package". The splitters were doing nothing but acting as couplers or unions between two coax connections. Replacing these unneeded splitters with couplers brought the readings to where they were supposed to be, giving me a good signal and as a side bonus, better (faster) connectivity on my old (10 yrs) Win xp computer.
I do get a little pixlating on occasion, but it has slowed down to hardly ever. There is a gray box up the street on a pole, that normally has a green light. after a power failure, it had the steady green but also a flashing red. I thought this box was NHEC, but after seeing a metrocast truck go up the road (I had gone out earlier and it was still flashing), I went out again and the red light was off. Coincidence? Dont know.
I do know that TV reception has been much better since then. Maybe I am easy, and I have never had Comcast or Verizon Fibre optics, but we are happy with our channel lineup and picture quality.
