"Among the changes promised will be faster high-speed Internet service and improved video on demand." I would settle for reliable internet service between 9 - 10 pm. I am so an ex-Comcast customer as soon as I can get FiOS.
i received the lineup card a couple weeks ago and saw that they were going to drop about 8 hbo channels including one of the hd ones. Showtime also reduce its channels including one hd as well. So i decided to drop both premiums since i am now receiving 2 hd channels as opposed to the 4 previously.
Are they dropping HDNet? Last I heard they didn't carry HDNet. That would really suck -- HDNet has a lot of great musical programming.
they are not dropping HDNET, the price of the HD plus package drops to $4 instead of $5 though In addition, ESPNHD will be free, I'm still waiting to see on TNTHD and Discovery HD though, because if they are free as well I will have no need to get the HD plus package.
But you also realize that they now have the HD content available on their on-demand premium section... you're not losing programming. At first, I didn't like that they took away HBO W HD, but when I found out that their on-demand service carries the HD content of HBO (in the HD on-demand section), I was more excited. Having HD premium content on-demand completely outweighs anything that time warner can offer. (and on-demand is suddenly becoming a bigger reason, for me, to stick with cable over satellite).
NFL Network is awesome during the season, plus we get to see those Games we've missed the last two years. I did hear NBA-TV might get the boot...that would suck!
My on-demand has not worked in 2 years. TW can't seem to fix it. I guess I'll get Comcast to see if they can but as of right now you are wrong... I've already lost programming by them removing the channels I previously had without fixing the problem with the cabling in my neighborhood.
If your on-demand wasn't working... you're already getting the raw-end of the deal. I'd switch over to satellite, or demand that time warner fix it or else you're switching. Half the price of premium subscriptions are now going to factor in the on-demand content... along with DVR, its the future (and the present) of digital cable.
http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4842611.html As Road Runner bows out, brace for address change By DWIGHT SILVERMAN Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Road Runner customers will begin switching e-mail addresses to Comcast in July. Here's a timeline of the process: • First 60 days: Switch to a new Comcast address, with e-mail forwarded from your old address through Dec. 31. • 60-90 days: You can still make the switch, but expect more urgent harassment from Comcast until you do. • 90 days forward: You no longer get to choose your address. One will be picked for you, but you can change it later. • 135 days: Your houston.rr.com inbox is history. For many people, an e-mail address has become as important a fixture in their lives as a phone number or house address. Just as it's a huge hassle to get a new phone number or move to a new location, it's a major pain to change e-mail addresses, particularly when you've been using one for a long time. So when Comcast announced last year it was taking over the Time Warner cable franchise in Houston, its broadband Internet customers started to get nervous. A change of Internet providers usually means a change of e-mail addresses, which means having to alert anyone who has the old address that it's changing. That's not as simple as just e-mailing everyone in your contact list. Companies with whom you regularly transact business online use it to communicate with you. If you run a small or home business, you may use an Internet provider's e-mail. It may even be on your business cards. And if you do business, a new e-mail address can translate into lost sales and revenue. Sure enough, Comcast has confirmed that the houston.rr.com e-mail domain will go away by the end of this year, in a process that will begin in July. All Houston Road Runner subscribers will be given comcast.net e-mail addresses. Because Comcast doesn't use region-specific domains — there won't be a houston.comcast.net — customers will likely have to change the first part of their addresses because of conflicts with established Comcast users. For example, chances are there already is a dsilverman@comcast.net somewhere among the service's millions of subscribers nationwide. I won't be able to use that as my address. A tool to help with switch Road Runner customers will be notified of the change via both e-mail and snail mail. The former will come with a "migration tool," which will help with the e-mail switch, said Ray Purser, Comcast's local vice president for public relations. Starting sometime in July, Comcast will announce that Road Runner customers in Houston can start switching their addresses over to Comcast. You'll be able to pick a new e-mail name, starting then — provided it doesn't already exist in the Comcast network, of course. E-mail sent to the old address will be forwarded to the new one through the end of the year. You'll be able to turn off this forwarding if you like. You'll have 60 days in which you can pick a new e-mail name — the part of the e-mail address that comes before the @ sign. But if you don't do this within 90 days after Comcast says "Go!" one will be picked for you, and the new name will be e-mailed to you. You'll be able to change this name to one you prefer after it's assigned. What happens when the 60-day window closes but before the 90-day deadline? You can still pick a new e-mail address, but Purser said Comcast's communications to you will increase in urgency. Those final 30 days are essentially a last-minute phase within the grace period. After 135 days, access to your houston.rr.com inbox will be disabled. Comcast will provide a service that will send a "change of address" notice to everyone in your contact list. In addition, any e-mail sitting in your houston.rr.com inbox — along with sent mail and any folders you've set up on Road Runner's servers — will be transferred to your new Comcast account. Once you switch, you won't be able to get into your houston.rr.com account. Web-based services Is all this confusing? You bet. But, if you're a Road Runner customer, you don't have much choice. Unless, of course, you choose not to use the e-mail service offered by Comcast. While Road Runner customers will want to go through the switchover process — Comcast will communicate to you through that address — you may want to begin using a different e-mail service, one that's not likely to change names in the foreseeable future. For example, this might be a good time to move to a Web-based e-mail service, such as those offered by Google (mail.google.com), Yahoo (mail.yahoo.com) or Microsoft (www.hotmail.com). Better than it used to be Web-based e-mail is much more powerful than it used to be, with features rivaling popular software clients like Outlook Express. Most services have decent spam filters, a way to sort and manage e-mail, integration with calendars and address books, and the ability to check other e-mail accounts. I'm particularly fond of Google's Gmail, which has that service's excellent search capabilities. Typically, these services also give you a much bigger inbox. Gmail's storage is always growing — it's currently at 2.85 gigabytes. Hotmail offers 2 GB. And while Yahoo offers only 1 GB of storage, it has announced plans to offer unlimited storage. Your best bet is not to procrastinate when it comes to switching your Road Runner account, and because you're going to be making a change anyway, make it away from Internet-provider-based e-mail.
http://www.houstonist.com/2007/06/12/morning_roundup_105.php Good morning, Houston. Thanks to KHOU, we have a couple more details on the coming switch from Time Warner to Comcast cable — sort of. Next week, 20 new channels will come to the Houston cable market, including five HD channels — but Comcast isn't saying what they are (aside from ESPN HD and the NFL Network, which should appeal to you sports fans). Up to this point, the most visible result of the switch — other than new Comcast signs on Time Warner service locations and trucks — has been a series of Comcast commercials on local TV stations. And, as amazing as it seems, Comcast's commercials may actually be worse than Time Warner's. Who knew that, one day, we'd be longing for the freaky spaceman or that annoying girl whining about the jeans? Comcastic, indeed.
Um, Time Warner already had ESPN HD. I really hope they mean ESPN 2 HD. I've been rolling on houston.rr.com for email for 5+ years now. I will obviously sign up for a Comcast account, but think it's about time to add a yahoo or googlemail type one, too. What is the best service for that - Yahoo, Google, something else?
Just signed up for TW/Comcast today, and I'm ALREADY annoyed. So, let me get this straight: They have a $99 cable/phone/internet plan which comes with 100+ TV channels but omits some decent and important cable channels. Then, they have a $129 plan which comes with all the cable channels I want... but also includes all the premiums I don't care about, including HBO, Showtime, etc. Yet, they don't have a plan IN THE MIDDLE that comes with ALL the cable channels but NONE of the premiums. F*** you, Time Warner.
Yaddah yaddah yaddah... Moral of this story? NEVER use an ISP-based email service. Go gmail or yahoo.
I've heard good things about GMail, but I think it costs money. I've used Yahoo for years and it's worked pretty well for a free service. It does have some annoying little things (attachments are hard to open and large files take a while to upload), so I may look into Google.
They meant to say ESPN2 HD. Along with that, they'll offer the HD programming of HBO and Showtime On-Demand. (TW only has the standard versions of their shows available on-demand). The only thing I'm not sure of is the "promotional" deals that Time Warner gave to all the people switching from satellite (which includes myself). Do those deals get grandfathered in, or come June 19th will they just start charging for whatever you're getting at full price?
