New High Definition Channels Comcast Boston / New England - December 2009

Just last month I posted that Comcast had added a bunch of new High Definition Channels.  It looks like Comcast had delivered an early holiday gift to their Boston area customers this week by adding another 39 channels.  This brings the total number of available High Definition channels to 103.

Our current channel lineup is:

771 - HBO Signature HD new *
772 - HBO Family HD new *
773 - HBO Latino HD new *
774 - HBO Comedy HD new*
775 - HBO Zone HD new *
776 - More MAX HD new *
777 - Action MAX HD East new *
778 - 5 Star MAX HD East new *
779 - Thriller MAX HD East new *
780 - WMAX HD East new *
781 - Outer MAX HD new *
784 - Travel Channel HD
785 - Encore 1 HD new *
786 - G4 Video Game Television HD new
787 - Style HD new
788 - Lifetime Movie Network HD
789 - Fox Business Network HD new *
790 - Hallmark Movie Channel HD new
791 - QVC HD
792 - DisneyXD HD *
793 - Fuse HD new
794 - Bravo HD
795 - CNBC HD
796 - ESPNEWS HD *
797 - Biography HD
798 - Independent Film Channel HD new
799 - Women's Entertainment HD new
800 - HDPPV
802 - PBS - WGBH
803 - ION HD - WBPX (formerly PAX)
804 - CBS HD
805 - ABC HD
806 - FOX HD
807 - NBC HD
808 - CW HD - WLVI
809 - ABC - WMUR (New Hampshire Affiliate)
814 - WSBK 38
815 - Planet Green *
816 - TV One HD new *
817 - NBA TV HD new *
818 - MLB Network HD
821 - National Geographic HD
822 - NHL HD new
823 - Discovery Channel HD
824 - Disney HD
825 - Nick HD
826 - ABC Family HD
827 - MTV HD new
828 - Palladia HD
829 - VH1 HD new
830 - FX HD
831 - TBS HD
832 - HGTV HD
833 - TNT HD
834 - E! HD
835 - USA HD
836 - Lifetime HD
837 - A&E HD
838 - The Tennis Channel HD new *
839 - HD Theater
841 - Fox News HD
842 - CNN HD
845 - WeatherScan HD
846 - Univeral HD
847 - The Weather Channel HD new
848 - Golf HD
849 - ESPN HD
850 - ESPN2 HD
851 - NESN HD
852 - Comcast Sports Network HD
853 - NFL Network HD
854 - Food Network HD
855 - Spike HD
856 - CBS College Sports Network HD new *
858 - Comedy Central HDnew
859 - American Movie Classics HD
860 - Cartoon Network HD
862 - SciFi Network HD
863 - Animal Planet HD
864 - Country Music Channel HD new *
865 - Versus HD
866 - Science HD
867 - TLC The Learning Channel HD
868 - Cinemax HD *
870 - HBO HD *
871 - HBO 2 HD new *
872 - History Channel HD
873 - Starz Edge HD new *
874 - Stars Kids HD new *
875 - Starz HD *
876 - Starz Comedy HD new *
877 - Showtime HD *
878 - Showtime 2 HD *
879 - Showtime Showcase HD new *
880 - Showtime Extreme HD new *
883 - The Movie Channel HD *
884 - The Movie Channel Xtra HD new *
885 - The Big Ten Network HDnew *
899 - NFL Redzone HD
901 - MSNBC HD new *
902 - Tru TV HD new
904 - MGMHD *

* Pay or subscription channels

Comcast Outage Board - Network Health

I was recently browsing around the Comcast help pages and noticed a link to something called the Outage Board. Follow the link and you get a page that looks like this:

Apparently the page is updated with the current status of various network components for a particular user/area. You seem to need to be signed in to your Comcast account to see your status. Some of the items are pretty obvious like Internet Connection, SmartZone, Video Services and Digital Voice. But there are a couple items on the list that I have no idea what they mean, things such as: Provisioning, Commercial, CSA Abuse/Security Issues and Other Features/Services. The page is currently showing that I have an outage alert in Other Features/Services since November 16, 2009. There are no links to explain what these things are, even a google search provides no answers.


Might be a useful page to see what is going on if I am having trouble with my service but then again if my Internet is down I won't be able to get to the page. If anyone can shed any light on the Comcast Outage Board post a comment.