Who to blame?

I have Time-Warner Cable in southeast Wisconsin and a 42" Toshiba Plasma
HDTV. Fabulous for the most part but, occasionally, my HD picture stalls for
a few seconds or goes goofy pixellated with the small squares. Not a killer
problem but very annoying when it does happen.
I don't watch much major network HD because there's so little available so I
haven't noticed the problem there. Last Monday Night Football was flawless.

So, is this problem with the satellite feed from say INHD, HDNET, Discovery
HD Theater, etc. or is the problem on TW's end?

Thanks for any opinions,
Rick

meagain wrote:

I have Time-Warner Cable in southeast Wisconsin and a 42" Toshiba Plasma
HDTV. Fabulous for the most part but, occasionally, my HD picture stalls for
a few seconds or goes goofy pixellated with the small squares. Not a killer
problem but very annoying when it does happen.
I don't watch much major network HD because there's so little available so I
haven't noticed the problem there. Last Monday Night Football was flawless.

So, is this problem with the satellite feed from say INHD, HDNET, Discovery
HD Theater, etc. or is the problem on TW's end?

Thanks for any opinions,
Rick


Hi,
Fluctuating signal strength? Try in-line amp module to prove.
Tony

meagain wrote:

I have Time-Warner Cable in southeast Wisconsin and a 42" Toshiba Plasma
HDTV. Fabulous for the most part but, occasionally, my HD picture stalls for
a few seconds or goes goofy pixellated with the small squares. Not a killer
problem but very annoying when it does happen.
I don't watch much major network HD because there's so little available so I
haven't noticed the problem there. Last Monday Night Football was flawless.

So, is this problem with the satellite feed from say INHD, HDNET, Discovery
HD Theater, etc. or is the problem on TW's end?

Thanks for any opinions,
Rick


I have TWC in GBay, WI and have the same occasional pixel

breakup... on INHD, HDNET, Disc, etc & PBS-SD....

Since it not yet annoying to me using a Sony 34" CRT & SA-3250-HD
box...

I do not intend to call TWC and ask for a 'good' tech.....

Depending on which cable-box you have, you can check the signal integrity
level on the channel that is having issues.

On my Motorol 62xx you tune to the channel in question, turn the power off,
and press 'select' within a couple of seconds. From there you can select the
in-band signal-level display.

I had this same issue, and when I performed the above steps I was seeing an
extrodinarily high number of uncorrectable errors on the same channel that
was breaking up. Contacted the cable-company and the checked my line-levels
and all was fine. So, they swapped out the box and the problem (and the high
error-count readings) went away.

-afh3

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I have Time-Warner Cable in southeast Wisconsin and a 42" Toshiba Plasma
HDTV. Fabulous for the most part but, occasionally, my HD picture stalls
for a few seconds or goes goofy pixellated with the small squares. Not a
killer problem but very annoying when it does happen.
I don't watch much major network HD because there's so little available so
I haven't noticed the problem there. Last Monday Night Football was
flawless.

So, is this problem with the satellite feed from say INHD, HDNET,
Discovery HD Theater, etc. or is the problem on TW's end?

Thanks for any opinions,
Rick

TW calls that macroblocking ... When I reported that problem in the
past (TW, Austin TX) they would "send a signal" to my box or headunit
or whatever - apparently to help increase its quality of service in
order to get a better digital stream of data. Note that I had
macroblocking probs even on a previous standard def digital cable box.
Now I only rarely see it on HD programs.

"meagain" wrote in message
...
I have Time-Warner Cable in southeast Wisconsin and a 42" Toshiba
Plasma HDTV. Fabulous for the most part but, occasionally, my HD
picture stalls for a few seconds or goes goofy pixellated with the
small squares. Not a killer problem but very annoying when it does
happen.
I don't watch much major network HD because there's so little
available so I haven't noticed the problem there. Last Monday Night
Football was flawless.

So, is this problem with the satellite feed from say INHD, HDNET,
Discovery HD Theater, etc. or is the problem on TW's end?

Thanks for any opinions,
Rick