The purpose of this thread is for people in various locations/regions/cable companies to share information as to whether the Wagner $ Rutgers game was available to them. I will have a TLDNR section to explain the technical issues involved as to why I am asking these questions,
Near Orlando, FL.. Spectrum cable carries regular BTN and 4 alternate channels (and a few SD copies of HD BTN channels).
So, technically, it looks like they could show 5 different BTN feeds at once.
For all 5 channels, the guide said"
"Iowa State at Iowa; Akron at Michigan State, Indiana State at Purdue, Wagner at Rutgers"
The main channel has Iowa State at Iowa.. a fine choice
The other three games were to be shown on their respective channels. And two of the three were available... not Rutgers.
I used another source to find the specific channel numbers that Wagner at Rutgers was supposed to be on. It was one of the HD channels (and its copy in SD), That was one of the 5 possible (which I think is really 4.. I think the main BTN channel always gets copied to one of the other spots.. and often when there are no live games.. ALL of the other 4 channels and their copies).
When I tune to either I got a blue screen telling me there were technical difficulties and they were working on it.
This was throughout the day.. before the game, during the game and after the game.
IMHO, there were no "technical difficulties". This was a choice by Spectrum (or perhaps BTN itself).. either locally, regionally, or nationally. That is, Spectrum uses switched digital video.
That means they have a certain bandwidth of their signal that they use for different content at different times. Compare that with traditional OTA (over the air) broadcasts where different networks are assigned specific sections of all available bandwidth and became known as "channels". Original cable just did the same thing.. a specific network's content was always available at a specific section of the bandwidth known as a channel.
As the amount of available content and networks increased.. it pushed the limits of what bandwidth a cable company could send over their wires. So, instead of just turning down content/networks they divided their bandwidth into always available popular channels and bandwidth to be changed between sometimes available networks/content and your cable boxes/cablecards use a "tuning adapter" to associate that content to a specific virtual channel that is not always available.
That is.. they can have 1000 channels assigned to their shared bandwidth but really only be cable of delivering 300 of them over their bandwidth at any given time. I do not know the actual numbers.
So, what I figure the "technical difficulty" was that Spectrum (or maybe BTN) made a decision that in these regions, the Rutgers game channel would be unavailable but some other BTN channel.. or ACC Network or SEC network or some other sports network (they have Bally sports down here and some SUN network too) would use the bandwidth they would need for the Wagner at Rutgers game.
I tried the Spectrum app.. but they showed the same "technical difficulties" screen. So I went to the FoxSports app.. and they had it.
I don't know if this will pop up again. It probably will during basketball season. But any help in figuring out what regions got what games might be helpful.
Near Orlando, FL.. Spectrum cable carries regular BTN and 4 alternate channels (and a few SD copies of HD BTN channels).
So, technically, it looks like they could show 5 different BTN feeds at once.
For all 5 channels, the guide said"
"Iowa State at Iowa; Akron at Michigan State, Indiana State at Purdue, Wagner at Rutgers"
The main channel has Iowa State at Iowa.. a fine choice
The other three games were to be shown on their respective channels. And two of the three were available... not Rutgers.
I used another source to find the specific channel numbers that Wagner at Rutgers was supposed to be on. It was one of the HD channels (and its copy in SD), That was one of the 5 possible (which I think is really 4.. I think the main BTN channel always gets copied to one of the other spots.. and often when there are no live games.. ALL of the other 4 channels and their copies).
When I tune to either I got a blue screen telling me there were technical difficulties and they were working on it.
This was throughout the day.. before the game, during the game and after the game.
IMHO, there were no "technical difficulties". This was a choice by Spectrum (or perhaps BTN itself).. either locally, regionally, or nationally. That is, Spectrum uses switched digital video.
That means they have a certain bandwidth of their signal that they use for different content at different times. Compare that with traditional OTA (over the air) broadcasts where different networks are assigned specific sections of all available bandwidth and became known as "channels". Original cable just did the same thing.. a specific network's content was always available at a specific section of the bandwidth known as a channel.
As the amount of available content and networks increased.. it pushed the limits of what bandwidth a cable company could send over their wires. So, instead of just turning down content/networks they divided their bandwidth into always available popular channels and bandwidth to be changed between sometimes available networks/content and your cable boxes/cablecards use a "tuning adapter" to associate that content to a specific virtual channel that is not always available.
That is.. they can have 1000 channels assigned to their shared bandwidth but really only be cable of delivering 300 of them over their bandwidth at any given time. I do not know the actual numbers.
So, what I figure the "technical difficulty" was that Spectrum (or maybe BTN) made a decision that in these regions, the Rutgers game channel would be unavailable but some other BTN channel.. or ACC Network or SEC network or some other sports network (they have Bally sports down here and some SUN network too) would use the bandwidth they would need for the Wagner at Rutgers game.
I tried the Spectrum app.. but they showed the same "technical difficulties" screen. So I went to the FoxSports app.. and they had it.
I don't know if this will pop up again. It probably will during basketball season. But any help in figuring out what regions got what games might be helpful.
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