Earlier this week I started to see a lot of signal noise; pixelation, audio drop out, screen garbage etc on my HD channels. Also, I had three or four cable cards lose their pairing this week. I called up Comcast to re-pair those cable cards and they mentioned that VoD was currently being put in my area.
The VOD implementation could include the increased HD channel compression as part of the plan, the changes for VoD, itself, may have temporarily impacted signal quality/cc pairing, or the video/audio quality problems I have been seeing on HD channels may be completely unrelated (sun spots, anyone?).
However, Comcast is allegedly cramming three HD channels into each QAM, I see compression problems as the more likely suspect -- at least for the video issues. I have not heard that this may affect cable card pairing, but that is also a possibility.
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Earlier this week I started to see a lot of signal noise; pixelation, audio drop out, screen garbage etc on my HD channels. Also, I had three or four cable cards lose their pairing this week. I called up Comcast to re-pair those cable cards and they mentioned that VoD was currently being put in my area.
The VOD implementation could include the increased HD channel compression as part of the plan, the changes for VoD, itself, may have temporarily impacted signal quality/cc pairing, or the video/audio quality problems I have been seeing on HD channels may be completely unrelated (sun spots, anyone?).
However, Comcast is allegedly cramming three HD channels into each QAM, I see compression problems as the more likely suspect -- at least for the video issues. I have not heard that this may affect cable card pairing, but that is also a possibility.