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Cablevision vs. Channel 11

G-Fafif Aug 17 2012 03:54 AM

Channel 11 WPIX off Cablevision at the moment for one of those usual battles between corporate behemoths designed to fuck over the viewer. In the meantime, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon games aired by 'PIX in danger of being blacked out if you're one of their subscribers...which I happen to be.

Fman99 Aug 17 2012 04:17 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Welcome to my world.

G-Fafif Aug 17 2012 04:49 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Fman99 wrote: Welcome to my world. I prefer all be welcome to a better world.

Edgy MD Aug 17 2012 07:07 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Dumb question, but can't one switch off the cable and get the game through the airwaves, or is that not possible anymore?

metsmarathon Aug 17 2012 07:10 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

that assumes one still has either an indoor or an outdoor antenna

Ceetar Aug 17 2012 07:14 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Edgy DC wrote: Dumb question, but can't one switch off the cable and get the game through the airwaves, or is that not possible anymore? I thought they went all digital? This isn't something I've tried though. But maybe you can plug the cable directly into the tv, as the cablevision blocking thingy is in the box right?

Frayed Knot Aug 17 2012 07:16 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 17 2012 07:29 AM

Edgy DC wrote: Dumb question, but can't one switch off the cable and get the game through the airwaves, or is that not possible anymore? Possible? - Probably. Easy? - No. Not only do most people no longer have a rooftop antenna but then there are problems with newer TVs not having their own built-in antennas, not being compatible with older outside antennas, requiring more signal than a set-top antenna can provide, and yadda, yadda.

Edgy MD Aug 17 2012 07:27 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Crazy.

metsmarathon Aug 17 2012 07:31 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

a trip to your local radio shack would solve all your ills. hey, while you're there, do you need any AA batteries?

seawolf17 Aug 17 2012 07:33 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

metsmarathon wrote: a trip to your local radio shack would solve all your ills. hey, while you're there, do you need any AA batteries? Effin' hell, man. I have kids. We buy AA batteries as often as we buy milk.

metsmarathon Aug 17 2012 07:40 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

happily, minimm has yet to become a battery hog. there's very few of his toys that actually require them, particularly those that he actually plays with. regardless, if you happen to need an antenna hookup, head on down to your local radio shack. sure, some of the stores are total losers, but you're much more likely to walk out of there with what you need than you are if you go to a big box store or a generic electronics retailer.

Ceetar Aug 17 2012 07:45 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

metsmarathon wrote: happily, minimm has yet to become a battery hog. there's very few of his toys that actually require them, particularly those that he actually plays with. regardless, if you happen to need an antenna hookup, head on down to your local radio shack. sure, some of the stores are total losers, but you're much more likely to walk out of there with what you need than you are if you go to a big box store or a generic electronics retailer. I haven't been to a Radio Shack in ages. I always find them confusing and slow. And they're not overly helpful. I had a hell of time trying to find the attachment I needed to hook up the Atari to the flat screen. Ended up ordering it online, just like i will the micro USB->HDMI cable I want.

Edgy MD Aug 17 2012 07:54 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Here you go. http://www.radioshack.com/category/inde ... %20antenna

metsmarathon Aug 17 2012 08:33 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Ceetar wrote: metsmarathon wrote: happily, minimm has yet to become a battery hog. there's very few of his toys that actually require them, particularly those that he actually plays with. regardless, if you happen to need an antenna hookup, head on down to your local radio shack. sure, some of the stores are total losers, but you're much more likely to walk out of there with what you need than you are if you go to a big box store or a generic electronics retailer. I haven't been to a Radio Shack in ages. I always find them confusing and slow. And they're not overly helpful. I had a hell of time trying to find the attachment I needed to hook up the Atari to the flat screen. Ended up ordering it online, just like i will the micro USB->HDMI cable I want. really. that's disappointing. i suppose radio shack has refocused some since i worked there. but like i said, some stores are losers, some are good. some exist only to hook you up with phones and other services. what kind of connection do you have on the tv? if you have a coax input, it's stupid-easy. you need a rca-coax converter. and if you have more than one thing that you want to runinto that coax input, you would want a coax input selector box. total cost, should be about $10. you could also have gotten one of those old-school game/tv input selecter boxes that i'm sure we all had. *full disclosure, i did have to look on the internet to find the correct output type on the atari. however, had you brought hte unit into the store, i would have known in an instant what it was and what to get. if you don't have a coax input, and wanted insteada to run it into something fancier, then you've got more work, and more expense, as you 've gotta convert those coax signals into composite signals - separate out the video from the audio. easiest way to do that is to run it through an old vcr. a quick scour of radio shack's website did not yield the correct type of box, but i wasn't really looking all that hard or all that long. it didn't really make sense to do, since you already have the solution in hand. i suppose the most important thing is, how freaking awesome is it to have a working atari running on a flat screen!? i wish i still had my broiken atari. i should give a long hard thought to finding one on the interwebs, and sucking up the awful cost, and then hoping that my old games were never tossed. i think we've diverged from the roiginal thread topic. but back in the day, about hte only thing i did with the tv other than watching mets games on channel 9, was play atari. specifically defender. i once racked up over a million freaking points in that game, and had so many lives, that i just turned the damned thing off instead of dying enough for the game to end of its own accord.

Ceetar Aug 17 2012 08:46 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

yeah, rca->coax. I do vaguely remember those game/tv input boxes. I couldn't find the appropriate piece at radio shack, although I do recall looking in a couple of them before ultimately googling it and finding it online. I know i have a picture of it playing on the tv, but I can't find it. I did have trouble getting a couple of the games to actually work though. It's pretty cool though, just for the insane silliness of playing it on a 46in HDTV. I really didn't play much Atari when I was younger, though I did some, I got an NES when I was 7. I think it came with Dragon Warrior. awesome game. My new quest is to get an emulator working for my old Tandy games, Peanut Butter Panic, Temple of ROM, etc. I spent a lot of time playing those. and yes, we've digressed in this thread.

seawolf17 Aug 17 2012 09:02 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Ceetar wrote: I think it came with Dragon Warrior. awesome game. Holy crap I LOVED Dragon Warrior. Played the hell out of I, II, and III.

Ceetar Aug 17 2012 09:05 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

seawolf17 wrote: I think it came with Dragon Warrior. awesome game. Holy crap I LOVED Dragon Warrior. Played the hell out of I, II, and III. oh, IV was real good too. There was a Dragon Quest 5..and 6 i think in Japan. I own Dragon Warrior 7, but only played it for like 3 hours. It's now on the long list of games that I keep meaning to get back to. (checks: Dragon Warrior 7 game out 11/1/2011. yikes) Sadly, games come out faster than I can play them now that I'm an adult with more than one interest. weird, that. Half the time I go to play something I end up replaying some old and awesome too.

seawolf17 Aug 17 2012 09:13 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

IV, I think, came out on the SNES or the Gameboy or some system I didn't have. I remember being mad that they did that.

Ceetar Aug 17 2012 09:19 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

seawolf17 wrote: IV, I think, came out on the SNES or the Gameboy or some system I didn't have. I remember being mad that they did that. Nah, it was NES. October '92. Never was one for the super nintento.

seawolf17 Aug 17 2012 09:39 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Maybe I played IV, then, and it was V that I never got.

Ceetar Aug 17 2012 09:44 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

seawolf17 wrote: Maybe I played IV, then, and it was V that I never got. yeah, no English version of V or VI I believe. I think they've since ported them, and it's mentally on my heap of games to get/play, along with the recently* english-released Final Fantasy 2,3 and 5 (japan numbering)

G-Fafif Aug 17 2012 01:06 PM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

ANYWAY...Saturday night/Sunday afternoon with Howie and Josh unless the corporate pissing match is instantly solved. Truly not a bad alternative.

seawolf17 Aug 17 2012 01:47 PM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Ceetar Aug 17 2012 04:49 PM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

G-Fafif wrote: ANYWAY...Saturday night/Sunday afternoon with Howie and Josh unless the corporate pissing match is instantly solved. Truly not a bad alternative. and Jim, since Josh does Sunday football right? seawolf17 wrote: I loved that they used old english in the early games.

Swan Swan H Aug 17 2012 07:39 PM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

I just got home and put on channel 11 expecting to see either a blank screen or some Dolanesque propaganda, and was briefly heartened to see an actual TV program. After a second I noticed the bug in the bottom right saying it was the Style Channel, which they are apparently showing on 11 to eliminate the dead air, or to hope people stumble across a channel they would otherwise not know existed.

Ashie62 Aug 18 2012 02:03 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Wow! Makes me pine for when most of the games were on channel 9 with Lindsay Murphy and Kiner Too Too much money involved for chrissakes..

G-Fafif Aug 18 2012 09:05 PM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

I have it on good authority from each side that it's the other side's fault.

Mets – Willets Point Aug 18 2012 09:26 PM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

Remember back in the 90s when Metsonline forum members demanded that Dolan buy the Mets? You don't hear that anymore.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 19 2012 11:41 AM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

It's perfect karma for us Mets fans because the team is mostly unwatchable, anyways.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 19 2012 12:10 PM Re: Cablevision vs. Channel 11

You're missing 'According to Jim' reruns now.