I was talking with Comcast technical support a few days ago, helping a friend with an authorization problem, and two different support people told me the 3 digit channel numbers (100-999) for HD channels were going to stop working very soon, and to get the HD channels you would have to tune to a 4 digit number. This was going to be the case for standard HD boxes and HD-DTA's. The location is in a suburb of Detroit.
Back a few years ago, I had a connection at Comcast that originally gave me the news that they would be reorganizing the channels between 100 & 999, and then also adding 1000 to those for HD. Not having done less than 1000 reorg, at least as yet, it looks like the solution now is to simply duplicate the all HD channels over 1000 (already done) and eliminate the 3 digit HD channels.
From the 1000+ lineups I've seen across the country, they all appear to have the same channels on the same numbers, e.g:
1070 HSN
1105 FOX News
1204 A&E
1305 Lifetime
1405 MTV
1507 Sprout
1605 ESPN
1705 NFL Network
1806 AMC
1910 HBO
This pretty much aligns with the info from years ago:
- 1000's: Locals, shopping
- 1100's: News, government, weather
- 1200's & 1300's: General entertainment and lifestyle cable channels
- 1400's: Music channels
- 1500's: Kids and religious channels
- 1600's & 1700's: Sports channels
- 1800's: Movie channels and PPV
- 1900's: Premium channels
Has anyone else heard about eliminating the 3 digit HD channel numbers?
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