Right - once upon a time, SyFy was only available on 17 in SD. Then they added
it in HD on 111. Then they eliminated SD, but now duplicate SyFy in HD on both
17 and 111. That’s either so people won’t complain about having to remember a
new channel number, or because their carriage contract with
all of the channels I cited are HD, at least with my hardware and service
tier
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 1:57 PM Jim Ellwanger wrote:
> Going back around 25 years (I first had “digital cable” in 1998) -- the
> channels in the 2-99 range were the traditional “analog” cable channels,
> and the
Going back around 25 years (I first had “digital cable” in 1998) -- the
channels in the 2-99 range were the traditional “analog” cable channels, and
the 3-digit channels were “digital,” which eventually became “HD.”
Many cable systems no longer transmit analog signals, but they duplicate the
The cable companies are still having separate SD and HD feeds for each
channel. Comcast also has duplicate HD feeds (along with a few unduplicated
channels, which aren't really of any interest for the most part--that
includes the Byron Allen channels that they were forced to take) on their
boxes.
I've been looking over alternative cable TV plans lately, and looking at
the channels menu, I see many of them have two locations in the list
there are theoretically numerical groups (the 200s are news channels, the
500s are HBO/SHO/etc.), but this is random; SyFy can be viewed on 17 and
111, IFC
Ah, Byron Allen. The vestigial organ of the entertainment industry.
On Friday, December 22, 2023 at 10:47:58 AM UTC-5 Mark Jeffries wrote:
> Paramount Global had offered the net earlier this year and got bids from
> Byron Allen, Tyler Perry and Sean Combs before they pulled it off the
>
Paramount Global had offered the net earlier this year and got bids from
Byron Allen, Tyler Perry and Sean Combs before they pulled it off the
market, claiming that the bids weren't good enough--now, on the same day
that it's revealed that Paramount and Warner Bros. DIscovery are
considering a
