[CompSci87]

I read something elsewhere that said Comcast recently made Pac-12 network available outside the Pac-12 geographic area with a technology that only streams the channel if someone on the downlink is watching it. It can take about 5 seconds to start if no one else was watching.

It sounds like they did that in your area even though you'd already been getting the channel before the change. It also sounds like they're compressing it more now, enough for you to notice lower quality. Yuck!

[CompSci87]

I read something elsewhere that said Comcast recently made Pac-12 network available outside the Pac-12 geographic area with a technology that only streams the channel if someone on the downlink is watching it. It can take about 5 seconds to start if no one else was watching.

It sounds like they did that in your area even though you'd already been getting the channel before the change. It also sounds like they're compressing it more now, enough for you to notice lower quality. Yuck!