[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!

Thanks for the info, maybe that's it. Still, since I live about a 15-minute bike ride from Stanford Stadium, I would have thought I'm safely within the Pac-12 geographic area...

I'm in the immediate Stanford area too. I didn't notice the change myself yet, but I may not have watched the channel since it happened.

[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!

Thanks for the info, maybe that's it. Still, since I live about a 15-minute bike ride from Stanford Stadium, I would have thought I'm safely within the Pac-12 geographic area...

I'm in the immediate Stanford area too. I didn't notice the change myself yet, but I may not have watched the channel since it happened.