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Re: What Irks Me..
« Reply #45 on: December 06, 2011, 06:57:04 PM »
As of oct. We our a full digital market. Not too much theft to worry about now. :pirate:

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« Reply #46 on: December 06, 2011, 07:07:08 PM »
Yeah I work for the Italian lol  I believe we will be fully digital by end of Feb.  We're in the process of loading all the hotels up with dtas right now.
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« Reply #47 on: December 06, 2011, 08:54:14 PM »
As of oct. We our a full digital market. Not too much theft to worry about now. :pirate:
No, you just have to worry about people hooking up their drops poorly and not caring about ingress b/c they won't have a snowy pic to fix.

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« Reply #48 on: December 06, 2011, 09:18:58 PM »
Theft still is a problem after digital.  QAM tuner tvs are a LOT more common then you think.  It only takes a trip to the Rent-a-Shit store to get a flat screen tv.  That and you have the problem of people getting a stack of DTAs and renting them to friends.  We are running a script right now that throws out a list of people with 6 or more DTAs on their accounts.  We do show up at their door, and we do ask to see all of them.

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« Reply #49 on: December 06, 2011, 10:11:44 PM »
Theft still is a problem after digital.  QAM tuner tvs are a LOT more common then you think.  It only takes a trip to the Rent-a-Shit store to get a flat screen tv.  That and you have the problem of people getting a stack of DTAs and renting them to friends.  We are running a script right now that throws out a list of people with 6 or more DTAs on their accounts.  We do show up at their door, and we do ask to see all of them.

If only DTAs were addressable . . . remove the drop, hit the boxes, remove codes for any that respond when the drop is dark.

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« Reply #50 on: December 07, 2011, 04:27:45 PM »
They encrypted all of our channels, the qam tv doesnt pick uo anything in our market now.

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Re: What Irks Me..
« Reply #51 on: December 10, 2011, 09:23:45 AM »
I'm somewhat a cable thief nazi always hunting them down. lol
:cheers: If your sure you know who it is that's doing the illegal hookups, there are other ways to get him to stop  :naughty:

Looks like one of our guys is going to get either terminated or final written.
We've had to let a few go also after a reprimand and a written, and it's really unpleasant when they've been here awhile and have just gotten lazy/don't care anymore. The upside is their replacements do twice the work and are happy to be here as much as we are to have them aboard. Seams it's much easier to teach new people new procedures then to have old people forget the old procedures...
The old ones have all reapplied after finding the grass really wasn't greener, but have a "no-rehire" behind them  :(

They encrypted all of our channels, the qam tv's don't pick up anything in our market now.
What ? Is that even legal ? I thought it had to be FCC approved first ? Do you work in the Canadian market ? That would help us all out, but I believe they won't allow local OTA channels to be encrypted... We'll see...

If only DTAs were addressable . . . remove the drop, hit the boxes, remove codes for any that respond when the drop is dark.
 
If only....  :)
Still too cost prohibited to fit all customers with a standard digi box, but we can all dream of the day.

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« Reply #52 on: December 10, 2011, 09:23:47 PM »
I hooked my qam tv up to cable today and waited a hour for it too scan. Besides the live the air stuff I only picked up 3 channels from cable, one pbs station, pluse abc and nbc, all 3 tho were in hd over the air.

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