Will HD Tivo improve my TWC Digital Cable decoding

It is possible you have a signal problem. Pixelation, sound drop offs could be too low a signal/ingress in the lines.

 

Don't let them tell you the problem is on your side. Have them come out and prove it. Most likely they are at fault.

 

If that were true, there would be multiple customers with the same problem, and they'd certainly be aware and trying to fix it.

Cable companies have some sophisticated and not so sophisticated devices that watch all channels for pixelation and other problems that are on their end, and definitely fix them.

They obviously can't see individual customer's pixelation, drops, or sound drop problems with these devices.

Even if the problem is on the customer's end, the customer can't always fix it, and would need someone to come out to find signal problems.

 

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what about the drop from the pole to the house?

ajwees41

 

No. By "on their end" I mean anything outside your house. It might only affect you. I had the same problem a while ago, they had to run all new cables from the drop outside the house into my house.

Also, most people don't complain, they suffer in silence.

 

Bzzz. Wrong. Thanks for playing.

You can certainly have a cable problem that only impacts one customer - drop to the house, splits at the house, hot signal, etc.

I agree with others - have the cable company check out your signal. Digital is much less forgiving than analog.

 

I think when it comes to getting ideal reception, digital is more forgiving than analog, but because of that they tend to get sloppy with the signal levels. They have a conflict of interest - if the analog reception is too good it weakens one of the selling points of upgrading to digital.

 

I am getting LARGE issue with pixelation. My signal is 100 according to the meter in the Tivo. Comcast was here and checked signal at every step of the cable coming into the house and all the way to the TivoHD. He says it's about as close to perfect as he has seen. The house is only 2 months old and top of the line cable was used.

The weird part is that cable card 1 get less pixelation than cable card 2. But both do pixelate. The TivoHD is much worse on the digital channels than the old moto dvr from comcast.

That being said. Comcast is coming back today with new cards as I have other issues also.

 

I am having the same problem with Time Warner. Card 1 is watchable, but there are noticable audio drop-offs and some pixelation. On card 2, all my digital channels have severe pixelation. I am hoping that it is a signal issue that can be remedied and not the TivoHD. I have a truck roll scheduled for tomorrow.

 

In my case we have already ruled out signal issues. Now I'm waiting on new cards.