[8/30/2002 12:20:37 AM | keith H]
"Welcome to Comcast Country...now bend over!"

If you tried to watching the Phillies recently or wanted to catch the Eagles preseason game rebroadcast for the 10th time perhaps you noticed something that many other South Jersey residents are.

If your lucky it appears the reception looks like you have had one too many beers. Sadly thats about as good as it gets. At times in the afternoon it appears about as clear a scrambled porn channel. This has been going on since Comcast oddly shifted ComcastSportsnet from channel 9 all the way down channel 69.

Why would such a popular channel produced by the same people that own the actual cable company be flipped to such a higher channel, usually dedicated to lame stations no one watches( not to mention the sexual reference). Granted it is not uncommon for the cable distributors to monkey with their lineup. But in this case ComcastSportsnet simply went to a station where Comcast IN DEMAND ads ran 24/7, and QVC showed up on channel 9, and no other channels moved, no other channels were even added. Seems strange.

So strange that my father actually called the cable company. The first time they didn't bother to show up. The next time They replaced the cable line going into the house and nothing changed and of course he showed up late. The third trip involved a "tech" expert. He just became disgruntled that the last guy didn't run a new line from the pole to the house, just replaced the line inside, and part of the outside line.

He did offer advice saying it's likely an old wire somewhere is exposed causing interference from an AM radio frequency. Supposedly they will work on it sometime after the holiday. Id imagine many more people will flood the company with complaints in the next weeks if nothing changes when the Flyers and Sixers start their seasons.

Unfortunately you can't switch cable companies either, because Comcast has zero competition. Don't ask me how this is not a monopoly cause not only doesn't my comment feature not work, but I don't no the answer. They gobbled up Suburban, Warner and Garden State Cable. If anyone dares to come around they have to run their own cable lines, which would break their wallets in no time.

The wiggle vision has not only effected me. Drive up to the Warwick tavern or any local sports bar and try to figure out why it looks like Phillies game looks like its underwater.

Is this a ploy to get analog subcribers to switch to digital? Thats what I thought, but the "tech" said even the digitial subcribers get CSN in analog form. Perhaps people at Comcast are just morons. Perhaps its own by a rich evil Mr. Burns type person who gets joy from watching people suffer. Recent articles in the Business section elude to possible problems with the company's future. Any company with Scott Hanson on the payroll should be.

ps. the outer frame of my blog now doubles as a magic eye poster. I can't wait to see what nonsense appears about the head line this time.