re: Charter's VOD Is DOAIt's a free world. Stop complaining. Go buy a shovel and a ladder and string a cable through the ROWs to your own video server residing in your own NOC. In other words, compete, compete! compete!! Jeez, I thought this was obvious ;-)
I'd suggest it's just teething troubles. Hang in there. You gotta ask a Cable guy, you know? :-)
When you tune to Channel 999, I'm thinking what's actually happening is that an application is starting up on your STB, and the app tells the STB to tune to the EIA (the part of the spectrum it's expecting the VOD Barker channel to come at).
It seems you're seeing the message from the application ("VOD is loading") but the STB is either not tuning to the correct channel so you would see the Barker, or the return path isn't getting your messages to the VOD system, or you're not getting authenticated.
Of course, when Charter starts using TellyTopia, such issues will be a thing of the past!
re: Charter's VOD Is DOAre: "Go buy a shovel and a ladder and string a cable through the ROWs to your own video server residing in your own NOC. In other words, compete, compete! compete!! Jeez, I thought this was obvious ;-)"
Sounds great. Would you like to be my first investor?
Switching providers is a colossal pain in the ass.
And this seems like something that should be known/fixable, given the billboards and all the advertising surrounding VOD.
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Get a hobby ?
Get a girlfriend / boyfriend, whatever your style is.
Stop paying $100 a month plus for TV ?
Uh, I don't.
I'd suggest it's just teething troubles. Hang in there. You gotta ask a Cable guy, you know? :-)
When you tune to Channel 999, I'm thinking what's actually happening is that an application is starting up on your STB, and the app tells the STB to tune to the EIA (the part of the spectrum it's expecting the VOD Barker channel to come at).
It seems you're seeing the message from the application ("VOD is loading") but the STB is either not tuning to the correct channel so you would see the Barker, or the return path isn't getting your messages to the VOD system, or you're not getting authenticated.
Of course, when Charter starts using TellyTopia, such issues will be a thing of the past!
;-)
Meanwhile, I'll ask someone at Charter to help.
Sounds great. Would you like to be my first investor?