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OK, I guess I'm going to be here a while. Let's get serious with this form.

I was with Charter for years. I use to email them at least once a week when HD first started coming out. After years with no replies to my emails and no HD I finally left Charter.

Within months after I left Charter to go to DirecTV, Charter finally started up HD in my area. That was two and a half years ago. I went with VOOM in November 2003.

I think the VOOM forum here at satelliteguys accomplished a lot of great things, foremost for me was it gave me an outlet for my comments and I here the discussions from others. I never had that from DirecTV or Charter. I hope we can do something similar with this Charter forum that we accomplished with the VOOM forum.

Here is a list of things I want to know about Charter;

1. When is Charter going to quit broadcasting analog signals?

2. How may SD and HD channels can the Charter equipment support?

3. Can and/or when will Charter convert to MPEG4?

4. Charter has a press release stating that it's going to start broadcasting TNT-HD. When and what other channels HD channels is Charter planning in the future? When is Charter going to pick up VOOM?

5. How can we recruit Charter subscribers to our forum?

6. How can we get Charter executives to come to our forum to read our posts.

7. Or, if we can't get Charter to come here, how do we get our comments to Charter?

My Charter isn't actually getting reinstalled until next Saturday. I'm sure I'm going to have many more questions as time goes on.

Trying to communicate with Charter before was always like beating my head against a brick wall before. I'm sure I am going to have many complaints and comments about Charter. It's going to be great to be able to share those with that actually read them and respond.

Goodbye VOOM :( Charter, I'm back :cool:
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cableman265
Here is a quick list of some answers for you.

1. Charter will quit broadcasting analog when they are required to. Right now they broadcast analog because it is required by many franchise agreements so that people dont have to convert to digital. In the next month or so, if you have digital then you will not have anymore analog, but analog will not go away anytime soon until the government starts requiring digital.
2. They can support many SD and HD channels. It is not unlimited space, but there is a lot of room there for many more channels, plus new technologies freeing up more space. But analog channels take up a lot of space, so as soon as they can dump those much more space will be available.
3. I dont know, havent heard but i will ask around.
4. There are numerous HD channels in the works right now. The problem is not receiving the channel, its getting the lawyers and bean counters for both Charter and the channels to come up with a contract that lets them show the channel. Its all about the money. More channels makes your bill go up, and thats what most people care about.
5. I think word of mouth is the best way to get people to a forum of this type. The people are coming, but its hard to just target Charter people.
6. Wont happen unless somebody below them reads something interesting and sends it along for them to read. And by interesting I mean some wild crazy rumor, or some type of slanderous attack against them personally. They just dont have the technical knowledge to answer any common everyday questions.
7. I dont know, on their website you can send emails for problems and stuff, I dont know if you can send other stuff. Wouldnt matter anyways.
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What a joke, Charter has no HD here, and no plans.
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OK, here is a very important question;

Currently most televisions can receive all the Charter analog channels without a converter box. All the new televisions are coming out with digital over the air receivers. Will the new televisions be able to receive the Charter digital signals that replace the under 100 channels?

Another part of that question is will all the local channels that broadcast in HD over the air be available as HD when the under 100 channel digital conversion takes place?

And that brings up another question that maybe I can get a real answer to; Can the current digital local channels Charter broadcasts be picked up by an over the air digital receiver? Any of you that have Charter and an over the air digital receiver should be able to plug the cable into the receiver to see if you can pick up the locals.

If Charter does not support the digital receivers coming out in the new televisions and forces all owners that have digital receivers to pay rental for digital cable boxes but allows the same analog signals to be received without a box for free, I think Charter will have real trouble with customers.
cableman265
Not all locals over the air will broadcast when digital conversion takes place. All they are doing is converting the analog signals on existing channels to digital so that the box can display all digital channels. The channels will not change. The digital channels cannot be viewed with an OTA receiver, because they are not in the air, they are in the cables coming to your house. I imagine you are talking about the digital cable cards that some TVs are capable of using. Those are being used now, and dont require a digital box.
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Dan Berndt said:
Another part of that question is will all the local channels that broadcast in HD over the air be available as HD when the under 100 channel digital conversion takes place?

No. Charter has to have licensing agreements in place to carry locals in HD. Where I live, I can get about 10 different HD locals OTA from the 2 markets I live between, but Charter currently gives me only 2 of those in HD! It's very frustrating and very slow getting more added. That's why I originally went to Voom in the first place.

At least with the OTA antenna now, I can watch the others, but they don't go through my Charter DVR.
Scott Greczkowski
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Shooz - Styx
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Too Much Time on My Hands - Styx
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Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
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TIME Won't Let Me-The Outsiders
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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dfergie
I loved it when Rodney was on the Tonight Show...
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Foxbat
Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
Thanks, I wasn't sure if you had the wrong Subject or the wrong YouTube link.
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osu1991
Was a Don Rickles fan. I've dvr'd most of his appearances on Carson from the antenna tv replays.

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dishstaller
More Dangerfield rapid fire on Carson.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scEQFHQHHhU
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dishdude
Rodney Dangerfield is great. One of his best one liners - "My wife likes to talk to me during sex, last night she called me from Florida!"

Jackie Gleason is another one of the greats.


View: https://youtu.be/ciUV77AzIB4
dfergie
Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU!
Last reply · posted in Movie Talk
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primestar31

Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
Bruce
Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
At theaters, only in Japanese, on Disc and Netflix, available in English.
Foxbat
New trailer has dropped:
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long_time_Dish
Looks good! I'm interested...
dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
Videos like this can make you appreciate the things we take for granted.


View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a2cgQidHQJI
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Bobby
Videos like this can make you appreciate the things we take for granted.


View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a2cgQidHQJI

That brought tears to my eyes.
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That brought tears to my eyes.
Really...REALLY hate to do this to you Bobby, but....


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsOo3jzkhYA&pp=ygUed29tYW4gaGVhcnMgZm9yIHRoZSBmaXJzdCB0aW1l
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Okay....if you think you can take it....this one brought tears to my eyes when I first saw it and did again just now.


View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i5UCDwHMatg?feature=share
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dishstaller
This came up in my suggestions probably because of the video I posted. I had NO idea exactly what being color blind actually was. Now I understand why that man was so blown away with seeing the trees......a lot of color blind people see green as brown, so grass, trees, etc all look brown.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i18_RngKJDQ
meStevo
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Continuing the Kilauea thread in the Pub here. Perhaps the Iceland one too next time there's remarkable activity.

Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.

You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.



View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4


Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.


View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
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Looks like Episode 55 is over at 09:00 HST, just under six hours. The USGS said the fountains reached 720' or 220 meters.
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The USGS Kīlaeua Webcam #1 has been showing overflows and doming from the North vent overnight. Maybe the volcanic plumbing has settled back into its two-three week cycle of fountaining?

But I do miss the little cinder cone that broke up in the last episode.
Foxbat
Sorry, I should have posted these earlier:

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We're still waiting on the start of Episode 56.
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At 08:01 HST 11/05/2026, the North Vent produced what I would call a "wet burp" after the precursory "pistoning" events, small amounts of lava pouring out of the vent for a few seconds to minutes and then everything recedes. There must have been a gas bubble holding thing back because two minutes later the lava started flowing out of the vent in all directions. Then, at 08:25, it stopped. What a tease! I thought this was how Episode 56 started.

About 12 minutes later at 08:38, the North vent once again started overflowing and picked up steam at 08:42. By 09:00, slight doming could be seen in the pool of lava in the vent. Surely this is it!

But, 09:50 and things wind down again. By 09:57 HST there's just fumes coming out of the vent. Phooey.

But then 10:00 comes and the heavy lava flows kick in again. This time seems like the real deal. At 10:30 HST there's little spurts of lava flying up in the air over the vent, but more from gas than a steady fountain of lava. This looks promising!

11:30 HST and the color of the lava is definitely hotter, and the intensity has picked up to a definite dome and precursor to fountaining. The USGS calls Episode 56 as officially starting at 12:10 HST:

Alert Level: WATCH, Color Code: ORANGE 2026-11-05 22:29:12 UTC
HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice

Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)

Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH
Current Aviation Color Code: ORANGE

Issued: Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:29 PM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H514
Location: N 19 deg 25 min W 155 deg 17 min
Elevation: 4091 ft (1247 m)
Area: Hawaii

Summary: Episode 56 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 12:10 PM HST on November 5, 2026.

Volcanic Activity:
Episode 56 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea began at 12:10 PM HST on November 5, 2026.

Lava fountain heights are relatively low at about 100 ft (30 meters), but will likely increase. Ground-level sensors near the eruptive vents indicate that winds are blowing from the northeast direction, which suggests that volcanic gas emissions and volcanic material may be distributed to the southwest direction from Halemaʻumaʻu.
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BlackHitachi
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Since the Reds have there thread we should too!

Last watched Nine inch Nails
Next 3:10 to Yuma
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dfergie

Last of the Dogmen is my favorite of hers.
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Star Wars Despecialized Edition

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dishstaller
Just watched Napoleon. Good night.....all of those young men dying for the egos of their leaders. Now we can kill at a distance, back then you saw the man you were killing eye to eye.
comfortably_numb
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Last reply · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum
Not sure saving $24/year is worth it unless you're a hardcore Philo user. I'll stick with monthly.

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Jimbo
Not sure saving $24/year is worth it unless you're a hardcore Philo user. I'll stick with monthly.

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$24 for the Year, would be more useful.
Howard Simmons
$24 for the Year, would be more useful.
But when you cancel you still have to watch until the plan runs out. With monthly you're done at the end of the month.
Jimbo
But when you cancel you still have to watch until the plan runs out. With monthly you're done at the end of the month.
Sorry, my point was the expense.
comfortably_numb
$24 for the Year, would be more useful.

Philo's monthly price is reasonable, IMO, because it's still the cheapest way I'm aware of to get all the linear Discovery networks AND access to the Discovery Go apps.
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Philo's monthly price is reasonable, IMO, because it's still the cheapest way I'm aware of to get all the linear Discovery networks AND access to the Discovery Go apps.
I guess if it was something I used on a regular basis, I suppose.
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In other Philo news..

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Bobby
Oh boy, I can't wait! 😂
K
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Last reply · posted in TV Shows
'Rockford Files' Reboot Gets NBC Pilot Order

I grow tired of all the reboots. Most I don't bother with but will depend on the actor chosen.
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long_time_Dish
Yeah, I'll check it out as well, but shan't be holding my breath...It'll be tough to equal James Garner in that role...
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...It'll be tough to equal James Garner in that role...
I can think of a few actors (including some females) who might fit the bill.

This will all depend on the storyline. I'm not sure how well it will translate. Modern TV hasn't been all that kind to PIs and even less kind to CIs (confidential informants).
K
Premier is Saturday, Jan 2nd. Moving to Thursday on the 7th.
long_time_Dish

I wonder how they're/if they're going to do something like the answering machine message opening? It was always funny...
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