Aye, the audio dropping happens more and more frequently. I started noticing it about 9 month ago when I first got ShawHD cable-terminal back in Summer 2006. Its gotten progressively worse. The worse part is when it comes back on you initially hear some...static-noise sounds. It sounds like a loud ringing noise almost like a power surge going through your tv-speakers or stereo-speakers.
Basically, the picture quality was excellent and so clear! In early Summer 2006 and possibly before then? and audio dropped out rarely if ever. In summer 2007 they added in 'extra channels'. They expanded their HD lineup from '8', yes an entire '8' channels to '15-17'.
The original channels were abc, nbs, cbs (west coast) + abc, nbc, cbs (east cost) + 2 hd movie channels. After the channel line up was increased we started getting at an additional cost some channels with pretty good programming A&E HD and DiscoveryHD.
The downside is as soon as the new channels came online, there was a noticeable drop in picture quality and the audio-drop outs started to occur. So I am pointing the finger at bandwidth. Its been an on-going problem for nine-months which leads me to believe it may be infastructure related or expensive to fix. Such as needing to upgrade local or neighbourhood equipment to increase bandwidth etc.
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Aye, the audio dropping happens more and more frequently. I started noticing it about 9 month ago when I first got ShawHD cable-terminal back in Summer 2006. Its gotten progressively worse. The worse part is when it comes back on you initially hear some...static-noise sounds. It sounds like a loud ringing noise almost like a power surge going through your tv-speakers or stereo-speakers.
Basically, the picture quality was excellent and so clear! In early Summer 2006 and possibly before then? and audio dropped out rarely if ever. In summer 2007 they added in 'extra channels'. They expanded their HD lineup from '8', yes an entire '8' channels to '15-17'.
The original channels were abc, nbs, cbs (west coast) + abc, nbc, cbs (east cost) + 2 hd movie channels. After the channel line up was increased we started getting at an additional cost some channels with pretty good programming A&E HD and DiscoveryHD.
The downside is as soon as the new channels came online, there was a noticeable drop in picture quality and the audio-drop outs started to occur. So I am pointing the finger at bandwidth. Its been an on-going problem for nine-months which leads me to believe it may be infastructure related or expensive to fix. Such as needing to upgrade local or neighbourhood equipment to increase bandwidth etc.