Currently, COMCAST Converter Box registration is in progress in the CV Clubhouse. The response is very poor. This event is for those who have not yet acquired any Cable Converter Box.
The schedule was published in the UCO Reporter, is screening on Channel 63 and is posted on this BLOG see the Sidebar.
Please be on notice that this Registration is the best way to obtain the new converter Box at no cost.
If you miss the January event, in progress, and at a later date you call for the box; there will be a Truck Roll charge of a minimum of $18.00 and possibly as high as $35.00. So, please Register in accordance with your Associations scheduled time and enjoy the additional programming provided.
Dave Israel
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The following question was sent in the Comment stream by Lanny:
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Hi Lanny, some of this is a bit premature but we do have some response on parts of your questions:
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I am going to split your message up and respond in parts.
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Dave, a question about a snowbird who might not be able to make the January date assigned to him to go the clubhouse: If, say, one of our Sheffield N snowbirds could not make either morning or afternoon on January 19, could he go to the clubhouse on one of the January dates assigned to another association? If so, could he go BEFORE as well as after his assigned date? A number of snowbirds go on cruises, for example, and are away from the Village for a week at a time. Could they avoid paying the $18 (or $35) charge in this way?
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We have a proven solution for the “I will not be here for my appointment time”
“Copy your license and CV ID on a piece of paper and write the following line”
I Unit Owner do hereby authorize “John Doe” to sign for my cable box.
Signed and dated by Unit Owner.”
The Proxy, “John Doe” will attend at your scheduled date and register for Unit Owners box; John Doe must also be there in your Unit to admit the technician on the appointed day of installation.
The idea you present about “walking in any time” will have to be vetted out with Comcast. It will only work if Registrations are going very slowly.
No charge will append under these circumstances.
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I think also you spoke at the delegates meeting today of there perhaps being a later (February?) make-up day or two when those who missed their assigned clubhouse registration date could register. Those dates aren't set, I think you said, but is it a certainty there will be such a late registration time?
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No, this procedure is not yet a certainty and will be worked out with Comcast. When we have the answers, they will be distributed through channels.
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Dave Israel
Dave, is there anything going on yet about getting an extra box? I thought I recalled something about after the first cable boxes were all rolled out, a 2nd or 3rd would be available.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Hi Topper,
ReplyDeleteJanuary 7, 2010 6:04 AM,
The boxes of which you speak are the DTA (Digital Terminal Adapter) boxes.
Our contract provides for two of these boxes, which only tune in channels 2 -99.
The contract is ambiguous as to when they are to be delivered, and Comcast has not yet so indicated.
More later as information becomes available.
Dave Israel
Thanks Dave for the info.
ReplyDeleteDave, a question about a snowbird who might not be able to make the January date assigned to him to go the clubhouse: If, say, one of our Sheffield N snowbirds could not make either morning or afternoon on January 19, could he go to the clubhouse on one of the January dates assigned to another association? If so, could he go BEFORE as well as after his assigned date? A number of snowbirds go on cruises, for example, and are away from the Village for a week at a time. Could they avoid paying the $18 (or $35) charge in this way? I think also you spoke at the delegates meeting today of there perhaps being a later (February?) make-up day or two when those who missed their assigned clubhouse registration date could register. Those dates aren't set, I think you said, but is it a certainty there will be such a late registration time?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know so I can put a notice on our bulletin board giving the full and correct information.
Thanks, as always,
Lanny
'Scuse my interruption Lanny, I'm sure Dave will be along soon.
ReplyDeleteA crystal set sounds so much classier than 'the box'.
I told a cousin in England about our cable cmte, he replied - .
I am thinking of the time I was 5 or 6 yrs old, and one of our neighbors had a crystal set and let me hear it through the earphones. Wireless transmission hadn't been going for long then as radio came in 1922, the year I was born. I also remember a bit after that, Uncle James having a "Marconi" with valves (tubes). The HT power for the set came from small accumulators on the floor which were charged up in parallel, and then connected in series with a changeover switch to get the HT required for the valves (tubes). They were certainly with it in those days. We are just getting the new digital system for the television now over here. Everybody has either to get a new television or get a converter box, digital to analogue to convert new digital signals ...
You can bet he will not whine about the remote.