Sometimes I love our little TV, back in Atlanta it was able to get us the local HD channels from Comcast even though we didn’t have the cable box to decrypt the signal. Thanks to Robyn we also got the extended basic package for the basic basic price, always nice. We also got a few channels we shouldn’t have like Discovery Health and NBATV, nothing really special but a bonus none the less.
Now when we fired it up in our new home and set it up to find the Time Warner channels, all we got extra was the local FOX and CBS in HD, which meant Super Bowl and March Madness in HD, and Discovery HD Theater. Kinda sucky really… But a bonus still. Last night we were watching Mythbusters on TiVo when Robyn went off to check on the dinner that was cooking, I flicked through FOX and CBS HD when on screen was ESPN2 HD, nice… Next up was HDNet, now we’re onto something good.
Soon we were flicking through every channel we get to list what new ones we’ve scored on top of our extended basic package, the list was astounding. HBO, Showtime (in HD too), Starz, Encore, Fox Soccer Channel (score!), Science Channel, BBC America, Discovery Health (again), a whole bunch of movie channels and lots more I can’t even remember, almost a complete total package… We’ve scored big time. Now we need to remember the channel numbers, instead of being 114, 203, 732 or whatever, it’s like 77.1, 89.2 which really makes it hard to find what you want.
So now I can watch The Sopranos (no more Sunday night downloading), all the soccer I want, Penn & Teller’s Bullshit (Robyn likes that, we watched it last night), sweet. Another downside is we can’t TiVo it, can’t have everything…
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Here’s the whole shebang of what we got extra (as in, what’s not in our package that we’re paying for). Very impressive!
71.7 AmericanLife TV Channel
73.1 Discovery Kids Channel
73.2 The Science Channel
73.3 The Golf Channel
73.4 Discovery Health Channel
73.5 ESPN News
73.7 Game Show Network
73.11 Fox Soccer Channel
73.12 BBC America
73.14 The N (Noggin)
74.13 Versus
74.14 WE: Women’s Entertainment Network
75.1 HBO2
75.2 HBO Signature
75.3 Showtime Too
75.4 The Movie Channel
75.5 Starz Edge
75.6 Encore Westerns
75.7 Encore Love
75.8 Encore Mystery
75.10 Bravo
75.14 ESPN Classic
76.2 FitTV
76.3 Nick Toons
76.4 G4
76.5 Bloomberg Television
76.6 Fox Movie Channel
76.8 iLife (Inspirational Life)
76.11 (some Christian channel we don’t recognize)
76.12 The Outdoor Channel
77.1 Encore Drama
77.2 Encore Action
77.3 HBO
77.4 Showtime
77.7 Cinemax
77.8 MoreMax
77.9 HBO Family
77.10 Showtime Showcase
77.11 Encore
77.12 Starz
77.13 Showtime Extreme
77.14 TMC Xtra
80.1 WCCB (FOXHD)
80.2 WBTV (CBSHD)
81.2 ESPN2 HD
83.1 HD Net
83.2 HD Net Movies
84.1 Showtime HD
84.2 Starz HD
88.1 History Channel Espanol
88.2 MTV Espanol
88.3 SF (looks like some kind of Spanish-language sports channel)
88.4 Discovery en Espanol
88.5 CineLatino
88.6 Cine Mexicano
88.7 Fox Sports en Espanol
88.8 CNN en Espanol
88.9 ESPN Deportes
89.4 La Familia Network
89.8 TV Chile
89.9 Puma Tv
89.10 Latin TV
90.1 News 14 Carolina
767 Discovery – HD (for some reason this comes up under the regular channel number)
Here’s the things we couldn’t find:
– Discovery Home Channel (channel 103)
– Discovery Times (channel 104)
– Military Channel (channel 106)
– National Geographic Channel (channel 120)
– CMT Pure Country (channel 143)
– VH1 Classic Rock (channel 144)
– Toon Disney en Espanol (channel 467)
– HBO HD (channel 750)
– INHD (Mojo) (channel 763)
– ESPN HD (channel 765)
– any of the digital music channels that come with digital cable (we were able to pick those up for a while back in Atlanta)
– anything PPV
sure you never missed an out!!