Comcast

I've spent the past month preparing for and implementing a migration from Comcast cable TV to relying on both off-air HDTV and Internet video. The easy part was dumping Comcast, though they magically managed to NOT turn off billing because they had to send out a service tech (for no […]

From Cable TV to Internet TV – A Nerd’s Journey

Sat May 29, 2010 in Fedora / General / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / TV tagged big bang theory / Bravia / cable modem / Comcast / comcast cable tv / digital converter / Fedora / gnome / GTK+ / hdtv / nvidia / Sony / Video / wireless bridge / wrt54g (updated 5082 days ago)

I tested the antenna in my basement with the first of two digital converters (the second from Amazon still hasn't arrived even though it was ordered the same day) and an analog TV. The antenna was able to pick up all the expected channels which antennaweb.org said we should get. […]

Antenna up, first digital box tested

Sun May 09, 2010 in General tagged antenna / Bravia / cable / Comcast / digital converter / digital TV / MythTV / nvidia / radio shack / set top box / Sony / Video (updated 5101 days ago)

The problem with getting rid of cable TV comes from the desire to continue to receive local off-air broadcasts. When the government mandated switch to digital broadcasts occurred, cable users ignored it because the cable companies would handle the situation for us. As long as we were plugged into the […]

Dumping cable: not as easy as it might seem

Sun May 02, 2010 in General / TV tagged antenna / Bravia / cable / Comcast / digital converter / digital TV / MythTV / radio shack / set top box / Sony

Here in the armpit of America known as Colorado Springs we have one cable provider, Comcast, at least in the area we live in. For the past four years we've had Extended Basic Cable service for about $50/month with no cable boxes required. Two xmas's ago our "big" projection TV […]