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- 08-06-2008 10:18 PM #1
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Olympic Soccer & BBall HD channels
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As many of you probably know, NBC has created two new channels for the Olympics with dedicated coverage (one for Soccer, One for Basketball). Satellite services (Dish & Direct) have picked up on these, as have some canle companies.
I have been surfing and finding conflicting info regarding whether Comcast has added these to their channel listings. It might be a regional Comcast office thing. I'm curious, how many of you are receiving these new channels?
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- 08-07-2008 01:46 AM #2
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I have the HD soccer and basketball channels.
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These channels are not available in the San Francisco Bay Area, at least not yet.
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- 08-07-2008 10:00 AM #4
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They are not in Central PA yet... just searched the guide for soccer and it only found a game on ESPN desportes (and it wasn't Olympic Soccer)
- 08-07-2008 12:19 PM #5
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I know that yesterday, when I checked DISH's satellite service, the OLYMS channel was only showing a fixed message stating that soccer coverage was coming soon. This is kind of stupid since there were womens games being played and being broadcast elsewhere (Direct TV, I think)
Today, I checked OLYMS on DISH and I saw a few minutes of the Argentina game. I could not find it on Comcast, but then my package with them is pretty limited. I am running cable straight to my set's QAM tuner without a set top box, so I have no EPG to search.
- 08-07-2008 12:23 PM #6
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I have dish at home, caught some of another soccer match (forgot the teams) when I went home at lunch. At work (we sell tv's) we have the ole full blown HD Digital cable; no dice... not even a message (thru the STB message menu) talking about the Olympic HD-VOD stuff they are supposed to be offering. Maybe they will turn it on tomorrow...
- 08-07-2008 12:53 PM #7
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The soccer channel was active for me on Comcast Wednesday morning.
- 08-07-2008 12:54 PM #8
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I don't have them here in the Chicago area.....yet.
- 08-07-2008 12:57 PM #9
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Was that on an inline channel or was that VOD? I'll try searching our guide again; but I think their carriage of these stations is spotty at best.
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We got soccer and bball channels yesterday (Thursday) in Boston
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