Archive for March, 2010
ISSUES IN CABLE TV BANDWIDTH
By admin on March 12th, 2010
ISSUES IN CABLE TV BANDWIDTH
In television circles nowadays, bandwidth is the operative word. It is the absence of bandwidth and is the significant problem currently that worries cable TV companies.
Recent breakthroughs in television, like digital programming and HDTV, are very resource intensive and take a lot of bandwidth to transmit. Of course, for this increased amount of bandwidth, you will get much better picture than quality than with analog and very much more programming choices.
Unfortunately, for cable TV providers and patrons, cable television relies on underground cables that were put into place largely before television became so bandwidth intensive. This caused cable companies to have a lot of trouble bringing services like digital programming and HDTV to its esteem customers.
If you currently subscribe to cable, you might be able to upgrade to digital programming, even access some HDTV, but you will find your selection fairly limited and your changes high.
To arrest these limitations, cable companies are digging up all the old cables and replacing them with fiber-optics. This is a very costly and time consuming process, and still asks the significant question of what will cable companies do when new technology makes fiber optics cables obsolete.
The bandwidth issue here is all reducible to the fact that cable TV is not able to provide as many channels or as much service as DISH Network.
However, while some surrounding areas might have a moderately large channel selection and digital or HDTV programming, most areas will find their choices lacking. DISH network, however, offers over 800 channels incorporating special programming and pay per view. And because DISH network has been steadily growing, the resources it has to put into improved programming choices are also growing.
In all, the bandwidth issue has been a worrisome one to the cable TV companies, but there are new researches going on, on how to better this and make the bandwidth issue in cable TV a no problem.
TIPS ON HOW TO FIX A CABLE TV
By admin on March 10th, 2010
TIPS ON HOW TO FIX A CABLE TV
if you are new to the use of cable TV or may be you have been using your own cable TV, you may notice it develop some little which are not fault really but you will keep wondering what the problem could be. Indeed those intermittent interruptions are not major problems but are little minor problems that you can fix. Read on and see the possible solutions.
Firstly, if you are experiencing interruptions with your cable TV or having problem with its functions, check if you have paid your bills, because most cable companies will interrupt your cable box if you are 2 months past due.
On the other hand, if and when your cable goes out completely out, most likely it is an outage and will clear up spontaneously on its own. To generate an outage and have the operators techs come out to investigate, report all outages to your cable operators immediately. They will appreciate the report.
Furthermore, most cable TV problems up to 80% can be solved by the subscriber by checking the obvious like coax lines, for no picture on screen and have a box is the TV set itself set to channel 03. Other things to look at are if you have installed splitters/moved equipment? Have you a high Def TV box? Make sure that you have the television set to the correct input by using your television makers remote to change from AV1…AV2…VIDEO 1 etc through the settings until you get a cable picture on screen. If your screen displays does not show on your TV, you either have the TV set on the wrong input or that your cable box is not even powered on.
Lastly, you should always bear in mind that Motorola boxes that read 888 are dead and need to be replaced. Do not waste your time to call the cable company; just swap it out for a new one.