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08-25-2008, 02:43 PM
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Nope. The problem is that they need the larger dish to bring in three PBS stations.
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Hey, I didn't pee in your corn flakes and I haven't made one comment about Groovy City.
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08-25-2008, 03:36 PM
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To answer your PBS question, maybe ...
When we had Comcast, there were 2 PBS Stations (I assume they are the "free" ones that an antennae would pick up) and now that we have DTV, we still get the same 2 PBS channels.
Your DirecTV should pick up all of the local channels, so you should also be good with all 3 PBS ... but you will also get Noggin
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08-25-2008, 05:22 PM
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Just finished with Time Warner and Direct. Seems the Miz signed us up for a price deal with TW last January. 24 months. It will cost me $80 to get rid of TW. ON the bright side: Direct offered me the Premier service which includes the NFL package (au resvoire Bengals) free for four months plus free hook up and three dvrs to set up the rest of the house. Then comes the bomb. They can't schedule me for service until September 9th. Questions: I now get three PBS stations (and most of the TV we watch, other than OSU football, is on PBS) will I still be able to get all three (CET in Cincinnati, KET in Covington and DET in Dayton) PBS stations? |
Type in your zip code at the following link to find out which local channels you will get.
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08-25-2008, 07:35 PM
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just an update....I still have Direct TV.....thus I am happy.
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08-25-2008, 08:54 PM
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Just finished with Time Warner and Direct. Seems the Miz signed us up for a price deal with TW last January. 24 months. It will cost me $80 to get rid of TW. ON the bright side: Direct offered me the Premier service which includes the NFL package (au resvoire Bengals) free for four months plus free hook up and three dvrs to set up the rest of the house. Then comes the bomb. They can't schedule me for service until September 9th. Questions: I now get three PBS stations (and most of the TV we watch, other than OSU football, is on PBS) will I still be able to get all three (CET in Cincinnati, KET in Covington and DET in Dayton) PBS stations? |
YMMV on what locals you get. It used to be that you could still run an off air ant into your reciever but a lot of the new DTV equipment does not have that option. I was really kind of [censored]ed off when we got our new DVR (had the old TiVO HD DTV) but couldn't get B10 Network in HD with it. So, when we made the switch to the new DVR I lost off air ant running into it. So, that all sucks eggs.
I could still runn the off air into the TVs themselves... and I may if I ever get up the nerve to get that far up on my roof...
So, if it is a big issue for you, ask them what options you have in terms of recievers and see if you can get something that has off air inputs... or run off air directly into the TV.
Best of luck. Frankly, I don't miss the off air too much. We picked up a few extra local things (e.g. NBC 5 in Chicago had a weather channel and some other stuff)... but it's hardly worth flipping out over with B10 Network in HD. Fair trade. Cake or eat it I guess.
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08-25-2008, 09:23 PM
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Serenity now
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Not sure how legit this is...
Ohio State Buckeyes - BTN and TW Reach a Deal
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Posted August 25th, 2008 by George Thomas
Sources familiar with negotiations said that the Big Ten Network and Time Warner Cable have reached an agreement in principle for carriage of the year-old cable network in time for this weekend’s Ohio State Buckeyes season opener against Youngstown State Saturday.
The deal calls for Time Warner to carry the channel on expanded basic on all of its systems in the eight-states where Big Ten schools operate. As recently as Friday, it looked as if an agreement wouldn’t be reached in time to broadcast the game.
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08-25-2008, 09:30 PM
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08-25-2008, 09:51 PM
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Hopefully this is true, but the SEC just owned the Big 10 again today with the deal they signed
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08-25-2008, 09:57 PM
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