I really, really enjoyed my "Heidi-game" moment today.
MU inbounds the ball with 40 seconds left, screen goes black for one minute - THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM.
When the screen returns, 'nova players are being mobbed and MU fans look stunned. Thanks Time Warner! It's bad enough I have to pay your riduculous internet and cable rates.
Why not watch it on ESPN?
Get Uverse
or Comcast
or DishNet
or Direct TV
Time Warner (and it's tv station) is the biggest embarassment to Milwaukee second only to Gwen Moore. (Yeah I went there F democrats too)
Quote from: MUBasketball on March 12, 2009, 06:05:23 PM
Why not watch it on ESPN?
Uh, I watched it on ESPN and got the same result; missed the whole last couple plays of the game....what a sham and shame!
You realize that if you have Time Warner as your provider, you were affected. Time Warner isn't a channel I can turn away from.
Quote from: Niv Berkowitz on March 12, 2009, 06:11:38 PM
You realize that if you have Time Warner as your provider, you were affected. Time Warner isn't a channel I can turn away from.
Thats why I suggested getting a different Cable provider like Uverse or comcast....
Let's stop with the political crap and agree that TWC sucks and that some people are stuck with it. AKA anyone on Marquette's campus.
Niv, Ari, Drop it.
Rock no love for a lil fun?
Have as much fun as you want - as long as you can do it without an insult.
you mean just not with politics
just create a forum for it: drinkin with John McAdams
The original posts referenced republicans and democrats, and tried to discredit one or the other via an insult.
Quote from: Niv Berkowitz on March 12, 2009, 06:11:38 PM
You realize that if you have Time Warner as your provider, you were affected. Time Warner isn't a channel I can turn away from.
Wait, what???? I have Time Warner and didnt have a problem. Weird. Does it make a difference if it's the HD channel or not??? I had the 530 HD channel on, maybe thats the reason???
I guess the HD channel didnt have that problem. But then neither did Uverse (I *heart* AT&T)
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 12, 2009, 06:31:07 PM
The original posts referenced republicans and democrats, and tried to discredit one or the other via an insult.
I cant speak for niv but I thought it would be funny? I thought it would degenerate into sterotypical insults and shenanigans
Quote from: Niv Berkowitz on March 12, 2009, 06:11:38 PM
You realize that if you have Time Warner as your provider, you were affected. Time Warner isn't a channel I can turn away from.
I might have a suggestion on who you can switch to. ;D
It didn't affect HD. Come on people, who's watching SD?
Also, while DirecTv has a superior product their outages here in the midwest due to weather are horrible. My boss loses services 3-4 times a month. I can't live like that.
By the way Ari...LOVE your avatar.
I just picked up Season 1 of Entourage on Netflix, recommended from a co-worker. 4 episodes in, it is hilarious. Jeremy Piven is a stud. Perfect guy for that role.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 12, 2009, 06:31:07 PM
The original posts referenced republicans and democrats, and tried to discredit one or the other via an insult.
Discredit both groups, works for me.
No problem with Crime Warner in the Green Bay area, for once.
Quote from: Ari Gold on March 12, 2009, 06:25:01 PM
you mean just not with politics
just create a forum for it: drinkin with John McAdams
+1
Everyone chill. Just having fun with both parties earlier...as both blow.
Anyway...the black out didn't happen for all time warner?? Really? Wow.
http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=13564.0
Any chance it was a local test that occurs on acertain day at a certain time? I believe the Chicago area has their's every Tues. at 11am.
Quote from: DamonKeysContactLens on March 12, 2009, 06:58:51 PM
It didn't affect HD. Come on people, who's watching SD?
Also, while DirecTv has a superior product their outages here in the midwest due to weather are horrible. My boss loses services 3-4 times a month. I can't live like that.
Then that means his dish is pointed wrong, your boss should get that corrected. We had people during Katrina that didn't even lose signal.
My boss is just one example. And his dish was professionally installed. My brother in law likes direct tv but keeps a comcast basic package just for inclement weather. I can't speak for new Orleans but in the Midwest it is very common, to the point if you're at a holiday party and it goes out, half the guys always say, "did you spray Pam on it before the winter?"
Like I said, I like direct tv but the weather issue makes it tough in this part of the world.
random weekly.
affected like 60% of TWC viewers...
I sorta think the TV gods thought that they were being kind to us by not having us watch the final :40...
now we can be more pissed at cable than Jer or MU or the announcers or the flippin mascot....
hope nova wins the tourny now.
couldashouldawoulda
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 12, 2009, 10:28:55 PM
Then that means his dish is pointed wrong, your boss should get that corrected. We had people during Katrina that didn't even lose signal.
+1.
I agree with Chicos. I've had Dishnetwork for 8 years. It goes out maybe once/yr for 5 minutes. Typically this has happened when streetlights are on in the middle of the day, sirens are going off, and my wife is running for the basement. Really not an inconvenience. I had far more outages when I was a cable customer.
Not to mention it has a better picture and sound than cable and is a fraction of the cost. If you can put up a dish, do it. You won't regret it. Heck, I'll even send you a referral code for Dishnetwork if you need one. ;)
Quote from: TVDirector on March 13, 2009, 06:29:00 AM
random weekly.
affected like 60% of TWC viewers...
I sorta think the TV gods thought that they were being kind to us by not having us watch the final :40...
now we can be more pissed at cable than Jer or MU or the announcers or the flippin mascot....
Random weekly my @ss. Some Badger over at Time Warner flipped the switch to piss us off.
Quote from: DamonKeysContactLens on March 13, 2009, 12:24:44 AM
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Like I said, I like direct tv but the weather issue makes it tough in this part of the world.
I live in the Midwest as well, just south of Milwaukee a bit and had DirecTV for years until I got tired of the monthly bill. Rarely had weather related issues. Maybe twice a year on average. Just was not a big deal for me. I installed my own dish when I got the system in about 1997. Just dumped it about a year ago....
-SERocks
Quote from: TVDirector on March 13, 2009, 06:29:00 AM
I sorta think the TV gods thought that they were being kind to us by not having us watch the final :40...
Agreed. Made it easier to swallow since I didn't have to see any of the bonehead moves live. One second we're inbounding the ball, followed by forty seconds of me screaming "You've got to be kidding me!" at nothing, followed by shots of a stunned DJ/elated Nova players on the floor, followed by more screaming of "You've got to be kidding me!"
Time Warner Apologizes for Timing of EAS Test
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/41205862.html (http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/41205862.html)
Quote from: DamonKeysContactLens on March 13, 2009, 12:24:44 AM
My boss is just one example. And his dish was professionally installed. My brother in law likes direct tv but keeps a comcast basic package just for inclement weather. I can't speak for new Orleans but in the Midwest it is very common, to the point if you're at a holiday party and it goes out, half the guys always say, "did you spray Pam on it before the winter?"
Like I said, I like direct tv but the weather issue makes it tough in this part of the world.
Nothing to do with being professionally installed...if it's out of alignment it's out of alignment. It can get out of alignment for a variety of reasons, especially if it's been awhile since it was installed. If it's pegged properly, you shouldn't have any issues. 99.97% reliability.
Sounds to me like the dish is out of alignment and that's easy to check with the signal strength of the various orbital slots.
Quote from: SERocks on March 13, 2009, 02:54:14 PM
I live in the Midwest as well, just south of Milwaukee a bit and had DirecTV for years until I got tired of the monthly bill. Rarely had weather related issues. Maybe twice a year on average. Just was not a big deal for me. I installed my own dish when I got the system in about 1997. Just dumped it about a year ago....
-SERocks
Yup, we are DEFINITELY not the low cost leader but that has served us well. DISH, the low cost leader is getting absolutely destroyed. We're growing like gangbusters. We went after high end customers who are not impacted by the economy as much and it's paid off in spades.
I doubt that there was any conspiracy behind this, but you really have to scoff and the claim that these things are completely "random" given that, as people have said here and elsewhere, they never seem to happen during a) commercials and to the best of my recollection haven't happened during b) packer games or c) brewers games. Etc. Completely "random" except for the times that Time Warner has programed for them not to happen. So not so "random" after all. It sounds about as "random" as some of the polls in the fall that were 40% one political party, 30% independents and 30% another political party.
Quote from: DamonKeysContactLens on March 12, 2009, 06:58:51 PM
Also, while DirecTv has a superior product their outages here in the midwest due to weather are horrible. My boss loses services 3-4 times a month. I can't live like that.
I have had DirecTv in Saint Paul for almost 9 years. My "outages here in the midwest" have been few and far between. I would guess maybe 6 times in 9 years I have lost service....and the loss was never more than 5 minutes. Outages due to the weather are really overrated and played upon by Comcast for marketing.
over the past 30 years I have managed a public access cable channel and had dealings as a broadcaster with cable companies from the upper Midwest, to Virginia and Texas. To not get screwed over on my end you need a lawyer and patience. I've worked out agreements that were never honored and without the help of an attorney I couldn't get a return call or meeting.
Cable management as a group has been an "arrogant group" protecting a monopoly. Competition is needed to break that -- bring on satellite services and phone companies. Allow customers to pay for only the channels they want - ala cart.
This comment toasted my brownies. "It wasn't deliberate, it wasn't intentional, it wasn't incompetence," the Time Warner manager explained. "It was merely the bad luck of the draw."
No sir what is was came down to an arrogant company with a manager who was asleep at the wheel. You can schedule those tests and you can change the time -- just so you stay within the guidelines set down by the federal government.
Customers can exercise their feelings about that level of service by seeking other options. They are out there.
Congress and city council need to foster a more competitive environment. Too often city councils have been asleep at the wheel when franchise agreements have been voted on -- many times cable attorneys write those agreements and councils just rubber stamp them. Congress also needs to step in to encourage competition rather than letting the cable industry write legislation for them.
This is much bigger than the screw over on the Marquette game. Families across the country are getting ripped off financially by cable companies who are giving lip service to being responsible members of their community.
The cable industry is spending tens of millions of dollars lobbying congress, state houses and city councils to protect their interests against competition. At the same time they are using a massive amount of air time on hundreds of channels for an advertising campaign that is aimed at protecting their interests. It's a slick campaign but it is not an honest one.