COMCAST: Fix your Audio! (Check Update)

Yeah, I laugh at them every time. Comcast, what a joke you are. Demanding too much for easily the worst station available to me. There are video and audio glitches that make me believe that a middle schooler is producing your stuff for a project.

It took a while for me to figure out it was the channel and not the just the game or even the arena.

TimG, you barely beat me to some similar points.

I’ve never heard beeps, but if I start to now I’m gonna be pissed, and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT, NEWBROY!

Just kiddin’. But seriously, I don’t hear them.

Especially during music in the stadium, the outro to ads or the ads themselves. Makes me want to throw things at the TV. Good work Comcast, really top notch.

I mentioned this a long time ago on an open game thread. I suspect musicians are more apt to notice this than others, based on my extensive sampling: me (musician), wife (not).

Unbelievable that they would let this go for so long, although I haven’t the slightest clue how it should be fixed. Just guessing that they have some sort of digital glitch where where two devices interface.

annoying, but I’m happy to be watching the game from home.

sounds like a warp in the audio to me. I hear during commercials too. I’m not certain if its across the Comcast board, or just during PTB games, but it is annoying.

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At first I thought it was my TV, since it’s old and very cheap, but it only happens on channel 37. It seems like it’s a problem with certain pitches. Whenever the arena buzzer sounds or there’s music, you can hear the little pitch shifts. At first my roommate and I laughed at it, but it’s been around for a while now, and we pretty much just ignore it.

Yes it annoying as all get out on channel 37 and since I get it in Kelso combined with the other people I would venture to say it’s a problem for everyone who gets the channel

It doesn’t bother me as much as the volume disparity from the game to commercials. The commercials are soooo loud.

i pay $60 a month for cable/internet and this unwanted sporadic modulation in pitch is the bane of my blazer enjoying existence, i’ve complained to casey at blazers.com about this but something tells my i actually should call comcast, trouble is, you have to wait an hour until you can talk with a human, who’s hands are tied because they are just pawns somewhere in the midwest in a game none of us can change or fully understand.

when the buzzer goes off – it is very noticiable

Reasons I hate Comcast:

1. The obvious hostage situation.
2. I pay $6/month for their “Sports Entertainment Package” yet that want to force me to upgrade my overall package ($15/month more) to Digital Classic just to get MLB Network. NBA, NHL, NFL are all included in the SE Package yet MLB somehow doesn’t get included?
3. No NBAtv in HD or any League Pass games in HD despite their advertising claiming that “many games are in HD.” I called them about this and they claim its the NBA’s fault. Really?
4. The Comcast SportsNet channel is by far the worst video and audio quality of any NBA team’s home network. I’ve seen them all on League Pass and nothing compares to the visual vomit CSN puts on our airwaves. It’s an embarrassment to our team and our city.
5. They destroy you once your “promotional rate” expires. My monthly cable/internet is going up 60%.

I will now step down for my perch and stop shouting.

I am in Corvallis, and notice it more and more, sometimes I hear it in my dreams… ITS DRIVING ME INSANE!!!

It really is driving me nuts. The only reason I pay for comcast in Corvallis is so I can watch Blazer games.

Not just during blazer games. It is very annoying.

i thought it was my tv. then i switched to a new tv and thought it must be he cable, but it really is only on 37. always hear it on the buzzers, various points through-out the broadcast making mike rice sound like he’s going through puberty.

Definitely annoying.

but have the same problem in tucson with portland broadcaster feeds.

My two girls who are 7 and 8 complain about the quality.. Of coarse watching it on a 55" Vizio LCD makes the garbage even more apparent.

Thought it was my Samsung doing that.

Oregon City.

I’ve never noticed it, but I’m no musician. However I do watch all the games on a 10+ yr old set via TiVO not recorded on high quality. Maybe if I watched it live I’d notice, but I’d literally go mad having to watch the same commercials over and over and over …….

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I hear it when the buzzer goes, a pitch change, warp, whatever. Just weird.

This fanpost has accumulated 20 recs after less than 30 hours, but is no longer in the realm of Recommended Fanposts, which means that the window of opportunity for somebody in the Blazers organization to see this and act on it was extremely narrow. Nice try, folks.

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      & Larry Miller. What a pair. Every time he’s asked
about the blackout, he says, " There’s nothing we can
do about it". I have a suggestion Warry. Void this horrrrible
deal, since they aren’t meeting the numbers requirement
in the contract !

Paul Allen owns Charter Cable, why doesn’t he pick up the comcast deal? If he won’t pick up the blazer package I’m going to burn down the comcast building. It’s pretty close to where I live in tigard and I work graveyard so nobody would see me cause it’s dark at night.

I’m going to get my stapler back too.

I HATE THIS TOO!

I never noticed before, bc i usually watch it on HD chan 737, but the rockets game tonight was on 37 and I heard it every 10 minutes probably. It sounds to me like the audio is either being sped up or slowed down because the pitch of some sustained noises sound like they being bent. so annoying…

I have never noticed it in Tigard and have seen most of the games on 37. I’ll listen for it next time.

All I hear is a waver in the theme music when they cut to a commercial. Maybe there are some benefits to having an old (analog) TV.