hitchcockblonde Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 We have been very frustrated for months now that TCM has lots of transmission problems (images get pixellated and the sound gets distorted and it never seems to clear up). I thought it was the fault of our cable provider (though this is the only channel we have trouble with) but just heard from a friend in a different city who has the SAME problem! Anyone else having trouble watching movies because of this? I'm new to this discussion board, has anyone posted about this before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsallieharding Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 What is happening is that your cable company is running out of capacity and TCM is on a channel where the effects are noticeable. Here in central Va, Comcast Cable is running out too, and so many people complained that they moved TCM to a lower analogue channel number (still analogue, that's enough to switch to D* by itself!). If your cable company still has analogue channels and TCM is one of them, then you should see if they will move TCM to a digital channel. D* and Dish* have all digital channels, that would solve your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomagain77 Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 I have Dish Network and the TCM signal has been perfect. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcmviewer Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 I receive TCM over cable and it looks perfect. The problems noted by the original poster are definitely related to their cable systems. Getting them to admit it is a different matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 I'm having problems with reception and quality too. This is the only channel that I'm having problems with. This is BellSouth cable and the quality has been excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktrek Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 I have Dish Network and cable as a backup. The Dish Network is far better than my cable company picture. However, on a 50 inch plasma you do notice a lot of compression pixelation. I'm sure on a 32 inch or smaller you would not even notice. I sure wish that TCM would broadcast in HDTV. I'd make the switch in a second. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsallieharding Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 About two weeks ago I watched Charley Rose and they were discussing HD and the reason most channels will never be in HD. The HDNet CEO said that Comcast wants to carry them but they can't because of bandwidth problems and that channels that come to the table too late will never be HD. DirecTV compresses their HD signal in order to carry what they do carry and even they cannot add anymore of them.Voom started up to early before enough people had HDTV's, and that's why they were taken over by Dish*. For me the important thing that was talked about was that many channels do not need to be HD and should not try to be. For movies to be OAR is the important thing also, only Showtime and HDNet do this, and any channel which refuses to show films in OAR should not be allowed to be HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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