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jeff47

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4. Are you using cable?

Reply to OKNancy (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 05:38 PM

Mar 2013

Cable companies have more channels than bandwidth - not every station will fit in the wire going to your house.

So what they've done is moved to "Switched Digital Video". Essentially, the cable company only sends out channels that someone is actively watching.

So what could be happening is they might still be running out of room on your local loop, and MSNBC drops. You re-tune to MSNBC and the cable box re-requests the station, and it comes back in again. Repeat until the cable network finds someone who left their TV on and doesn't re-tune to whatever they were watching.

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MSNBC - odd question about outages [View all] OKNancy Mar 2013 OP

I don't 2naSalit Mar 2013 #1

Yes Nite Owl Mar 2013 #2

I sometimes have a problem No Vested Interest Mar 2013 #8

I have it. Believe it or not our power just went out a few minutes ago. I was getting southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #3

Are you using cable? jeff47 Mar 2013 #4

yes, Cox cable OKNancy Mar 2013 #6

You aren't alone, I usually have MSNBC on as well, and I have Cox AndyA Mar 2013 #9

Maybe the sun behind a satellite, swamping out the signal? RC Mar 2013 #5

It does that when I'm EC Mar 2013 #7

I haven't noticed this AndyA Mar 2013 #10