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Oh Eff You, Comcast

We constantly lose BBC America on Comcast. It was gone last night when I tried to watch Life on Mars. It was also off-line when we tried to watch the season one ender of Torchwood.

There was, at one point, a good seven months when it wasn’t working and repeated calls to Comcast resulted in a replaced cable box and still no BBCA.

The new season of Torchwood starts in January. I am going to pitch a fit if this doesn’t stop happening.

Does BBCA come as part of any standard satellite packages? Not that I really want satellite, but I’m really getting tired of not getting one of the only channels I watch.

Seriously. I want some sort of cable provider that’ll let me get the local stuff, all the Discovery-related channels, Sci-Fi, and BBC America. I don’t need/watch anything else.

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3 Responses to “Oh Eff You, Comcast”

  1. daffyd Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

    dish network and direct tv offer all those, and are more competitive cost wise than comcast. Depends on what you want other than tv programming though. Don’t suppose FIOS has made a trip to your area yet.

  2. The Ninth Says:
    December 13th, 2007 at 12:40 am

    I don’t want anything other than television. I want the three major networks, FOX, the Discovery collective, Sci-Fi, and BBC America.

    I don’t even know what FIOS is.

  3. daffyd Says:
    December 13th, 2007 at 11:21 am

    Reason I ask is that I don’t know how you get to the internet, sometimes it’s a bundle from Comcast. If you get internet via comcast and television with DirecTV, then your internet will be about 50 bucks a month and the DirecTV would be about 60 depending on what equipment you want (DVR etc.)

    FiOS is Fiber Optic Service that Verizon is working to get everywhere that can provide you with all the TV, Internet and Telephone you need. I’m considering switching over, but not right now.

    If you like, after the holiday (say Jan 12th) I can borrow some test gear and see if the problem is a frequency falloff in your house, where a simple 30 or 40 dollar amplifier would fix it, or if it’s more major. Don’t trust the Comcast techs, they use simple testers that can’t check for what a spectrum analyzer can.

    How many splitters are on your main cable into the house?

    me

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