Friday, September 13, 2002

"Welcome to Comcast Country 2: Super Tech!"

A while back I gripped about the poor quality of Comcast Sportsnet since it was ousted to channel 69 for no good reason. Well, since that last time I brought it up (see welcome to comcast country now bend over) there have been some new developments. They were supposed to come out a few weeks ago, but in cable guy tradition they never showed. Another time they come out and supposedly did "something". A vague note was sent to us telling us what they did. However who ever did whatever never came in the house to check out the signal. So I am not sure how he would know if he had fixed it or not. Take a guess and see if you can figure out if he fixed it....go ahead...........take your time............. Nope of course not!

In comes the SUPER tech (I am not sure if he had an S on his shirt I wasn't here when he showed up). He did some stuff, which made the picture slightly better most of the time. If we want the best possible picture (which is still not what it should be) we have to watch the higher channels through the VCR. The picture is almost back to normal if you do this.

The SUPER tech told us that he warned "the suits"that moving the popular channel would be a mistake. He mentioned there is a fairly strong UHF channel that is sent out on that signal. The signal will cause interference if there are any exposed spots in cable connections. "The Suits" have yet to do anything about this despite being flooded with phone calls. The SUPER tech left our house only to go to yet another complaint about Comcast Sportsnet coming and going. A few days later without the VCR it went back to looking like scrambled porn. Of course porn usually doesn't involve a bunch of middle aged men sitting at a desk complaining about Andy Reid but I think you get the drift.

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