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- How To Hd Auto Tune Charter Spectrum Cable
- How To Hd Auto Tune Charter Spectrum Tv
- How To Hd Auto Tune Charter Spectrum Channel
- How To Hd Auto Tune Charter Spectrum Channel
Learn how to auto-tune to HD channels with X1. Learn how to auto-tune to HD channels with X1. Auto-Tune to HD Channels on Your X1 TV Box. Here’s how you can auto-tune to high-definition channels on the Xfinity X1 TV set-top box using the on-screen guide, that way you don’t have to keep going page-by-page in the guide to find HD. First, find the Preferences by pressing the Xfinity button on the remote control. Second: Highlight the Settings (the gear icon) and press OK on the remote.
How To Hd Auto Tune Charter Spectrum Cable
Charter Launches High Definition Auto Tune Feature in St. Louis
Charter Launches High Definition Auto Tune Feature in St. Louis
Auto Tune Takes Customers to Available HD Channels
ST. LOUIS – Watching a TV channel in high-definition just got a little easier. In the St. Louis area, Charter recently rolled out an enhancement to its interactive television guide that automatically tunes to the High Definition (HD) version of a channel a customer may select in standard definition (SD).
As Charter continues to enhance its video products with more customer viewing convenience, HD Auto Tune enables customers with an HD box on their TV to no longer have to search for the HD version of their favorite channels. If a customer tunes to an SD channel and that channel is available in HD, the television will automatically tune to the HD version of that channel.
In addition, when the HD Auto Tune is enabled on a DVR, all scheduled recordings in standard definition will automatically record in HD. Charter digital receivers have automatically been activated for this feature and St. Louis among the several Missouri & Illinois markets launching this new enhancement.
For more information on HD auto tune and its functionalities, visit www.charter.com/hdautotune or call 1-888-GET CHARTER (1-888-438-2427).
About Charter
Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) is a leading broadband communications company and the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including advanced Charter TV® video entertainment programming, Charter Internet® access, and Charter Phone®. Charter Business® similarly provides scalable, tailored and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, business telephone, video and music entertainment services, and wireless backhaul. Charter’s advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media® brand.
More information about Charter can be found at charter.com.
Published 7:02 AM EDT Jul 31, 2016
Q. My TV box shows standard-definition versions of channels, not the high-definition copies I’m paying for. How can I change that?
A. The black bars that bracket a standard-def channel on a high-def screen should be a badge of shame in the subscription-TV industry, but they’re a common sight when you punch in a channel’s traditional number on a cable or satellite remote.
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SD televisions vanished from retail years ago -- the Consumer Technology Association last bothered counting their shipments in 2007 -- and it should be an exceedingly safe bet that when subscribers tune into channels available in HD, they’ll watch it on HDTVs.
You can often fix that with some clicking around settings screens, but your odds vary depending on your TV provider and the age of the box you pay $5 or more a month to rent.
• At AT&T’s U-verse you can only avoid SD duplicates by using your remote to create a list of favorite channels. You can’t set the guide to show only HD channels either, although spokesman Brett LeVecchio offered one tip: Channels between 1000 and 2000 should usually be HD. The DirecTV satellite service that AT&T bought last year is smarter, offering an option in its Settings screen to “Hide SD duplicates” from the program guide.
• Charter, the cable company that recently acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House in a $79 billion transaction, has an “HD Auto Tune” option on its Spectrum boxes that automatically switches you to the HD version of a channel if you select its SD offering. But if you’re in one of the small minority of Charter households with an older box, you may have to cobble together a favorite-channels list instead.
How To Hd Auto Tune Charter Spectrum Channel
• A similar situation exists at Comcast, the nation’s largest cable firm. Its X1 boxes -- the Philadelphia firm says half of subscriber households should have them by the end of this year -- automatically selects HD versions of channels when available. Older boxes don’t do that but should present a “Watch in HD” button if you tune in an SD version of a channel.
How To Hd Auto Tune Charter Spectrum Channel
• Cox’s boxes include an “Auto-tune to HD” option -- but its Contour boxes based on Comcast’s X1 software do not.
• Dish Network’s Hopper digital video recorders automatically hide SD channels when HD counterparts are available. Its older boxes have an option to show only HD channels.
• Optimum’s boxes automatically display high-definition versions of channels. This subsidiary of the European cable firm Altice has gotten this right for years: When I looked at this issue in 2012, the company then known as Cablevision was the only firm among those I eyeballed to offer an HD auto-tune option.
• Time Warner Cable’s boxes also show HD editions of channels by default.
• Verizon’s Fios TV boxes have an auto-tune option unmentioned in its online documentation or hardware manuals--I only saw it in a post on its tech-support forum. Press the Menu button on the remote, scroll up to Settings, select System, scroll down to Television, and scroll down to select “Auto tune to HD.” Spokesman Raymond McConville said the company hasn’t made this the default because earlier changes to the Fios TV interface were “met with a lot of confusion from customers.”
(Disclosure: I also write for Yahoo Finance, and Verizon is buying that site’s parent firm Yahoo in a $4.8 billion deal.)
Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C. To submit a tech question, e-mail Rob at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/robpegoraro.
Published 7:02 AM EDT Jul 31, 2016