Time Warner Macroblocking

Time Warner Cancled Me..

FromTheKing — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:09:45 +0000

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HGTV, locked up again.

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:46:42 +0000

HGTV Locked up and Blacked out, again… This has become so commonplace that I’ll just post both videos here. You can see that this is quite common with this channel, and well with my cable service delivery by time warner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMlMfrecKJs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8MtDwJdoy4

I’ll let the videos speak for themselves.

DIY locked up on Time Warner

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:40:17 +0000

Oddly, as I was sorting through and uploading all the videos on my phone, the DIY channekl started macroblocking like mad. I had to unplug the phone from the laptop to try and catch it, unfortunately the channel locked up completely before I could catch the macroblocking on the channel. but if you look closely you can see the channel that I flipped to with a bit of pause/macroblocking as I switched over to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ZA1qUR6D4

Sometimes flipping back and forth frees up the channel and sometimes days go by while the channel is locked up tight.

DIY Channel locking up again?

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:09:29 +0000

Of course it is, one of the perpetual problem channels the DIY channel decided to lock up after a quick bit of severe macroblocking. A few flips back and forth gives a blacked out channel, then out of nowhere it just works again. Of course the macroblocking continued after it returned from the lockup, but I guess this is what passes as acceptable levels of service.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACgBIU6rGVk

A new year, same problems.

Blacked out channels

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:41:52 +0000

Description of blacked out channel with no message or macroblocking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I2TNEXYbLY

Top Gear Marathon of Macroblocking on BBC

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:37:41 +0000

So what can you do on your columbus day holiday? Watch a bit of television, including some Jeremy, James and Hammond, Thats right, the entire Top Gear Marathon on BBC was going to be my holiday indulgence, instead macroblocking, cutting out, dropping audio and locking up of one of my favorite shows was what was in store for me. take a look at the quality service I am paying $125 a month for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iB-0O8G6cs

Theres not much else to do when the macroblocking starts like this. Call customer service? Nope, they make you unplug your box (thats got at least a 5 minute reboot time) and then when that doesn’t fix the issue they tell you to call back if it is still having problems after 24 hours. Of course you just can’t win.

Macroblocking and Interesting lockup issues

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:25:06 +0000

great video of shoot em up locked up as well as other channel blackouts, dropped video and some macroblocking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLROMBw7GRY

On the same day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ugYWdSb-2w

This is directly after a new set top box installation

Channel cuts out randomly

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:07:26 +0000

So yeah, I was watching TV and every minute or so, the channel would cut out, then pop back again. Seemed random, every minute or so, during the show and commercials..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ZDPf6HmJ8

of course I just went through and started watching something else, but it was pretty annoying. Currently uploading a bunch of videos out of order because I was busy with other stuff to upload.

fromtheking’s macroblocking videos

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:00:21 +0000

Here are some videos from Time Warner Cable customer “fromtheking”

Here are his videos

HGTV macroblocking and pausing

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:35:01 +0000

video of HGTV locked up initially then continuing on with macroblocking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKaMu7vcVbE