Is whas 11 news in hd now?

No and no plans to do so have been announced.

the noon news was full screen on their hd channel

Just checked the 5:30 News. It is an upconvert not HD. Does not look very good.

Just checked the 5:30 News. It is an upconvert not HD. Does not look very good.

Stevenshs,
How does one tell if it's an upcovert and not true HD?
Thanks,
Ghpr13:confused:

Stevenshs,
How does one tell if it's an upcovert and not true HD?
Thanks,
Ghpr13:confused:

Watch Wave 3 news for a bit then switch to 11. You will see the difference then.

Slightly off topic, but I have hundreds of Laser video disks, movies, music concerts, etc...

I also have 3 Pioneer Laser Disk players and I would give all to someone who can use them, just can't throw them all away, yet. I am about 15 miles west of Elizabethtown and could meet in Louisville, if necessary.

Mike Tallent

Is anyone going to get AT+T Uverse?

Is anyone going to get AT+T Uverse?

When is it supposed to be available?

Here are the details an it looks like it is available today in certain areas.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/att-u-verse-arrives-in-louisville,941860.shtml

Apparently not available for me yet. I'd be interested in testing the TV services.

Edit: It's not available for anyone yet it seems. They are taking orders as of today but it could be up to 2 months before it actually launches.

If it is as good as advertised, I might consider the jump from Dish Network, but the dvr's would have to be as good.

Pros: there is one DVR that distributes to other receivers. This means you can record in one room and watch in another.

Cons: There is limited bandwidth so you can currently only record 2 HD + 2 SD shows simultaneously. This means that you could not record WHAS, WLKY and WAVE in HD on the same timeslot. You would need to record one in SD.

The Dish dvr's allow the recording of 3 shows simultaneously, 2 satellite & 1 ota while watching any recorded event. They also have a newer unit that allows for recording of 2 satellite & 2 ota at the same time. Both allow connections to multiple tv's - 1 hd & 1 sd for independent viewing

More info on U-Verse:

You can only pause/ff/rew on the main DVR unit. The other boxes can only record/play/delete.
HD streams are 6-8 Mb/sec. I really hope H.264. If it's MPEG2, I don't even need to see it to know the quality sucks.

Here is the link to the wiki link for U-verse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Verse

As an Insight customer the 2 recording stream limit is not that big a deal.

Here is the link to the wiki link for U-verse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Verse

As an Insight customer the 2 recording stream limit is not that big a deal.I'm an insight customer and it's a pretty big deal for me. There are several times when there are 3 programs in the same timeslot that I want to record. Now if you are an Insight customer with only 1 DVR, that's a different story.

The wikipedia entry states that it is H.264 but that means that they are decoding and then re-encoding the original MPEG 2 signals so there will be quality loss. The amount of quality loss will depend on their re-encode process.

So I'm switching from Direct tv to cable tomorrow. Doing a bundle type of deal combining cable, phone and internet.

Whenever I want the best signal to watch a fotball game I bypass my sat box and go straight OTA. I get a better signal that way.

The cable guy told me that the locals that I get via their box will be just as high of quality as the OTA stuff. Is this true? I live here in KY and the cable company is insight.

So I'm switching from Direct tv to cable tomorrow. Doing a bundle type of deal combining cable, phone and internet.

Whenever I want the best signal to watch a fotball game I bypass my sat box and go straight OTA. I get a better signal that way.

The cable guy told me that the locals that I get via their box will be just as high of quality as the OTA stuff. Is this true? I live here in KY and the cable company is insight.

That's not true, or at least not as of last December. I was wondering this myself and asked about it on this forum. Vladd responded with this.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=15308299#post15308299

Looks like it's time to get rid of my digital cable.

Channel|OTA|Insight
WAVE 3|12.0|12.0
WHAS 11|18.0|16.2
WLKY 32|18.0|14.7
WDRB 41|15.5|10.0
WMYO 58|18.5|16.5

As you can see, the only channel that they are not recompressing is WAVE 3 who already compresses their signal.

Note that these are the video bitrates only and they are variable. I did not include the audio and reported an average rate.

That's not true, or at least not as of last December. I was wondering this myself and asked about it on this forum. Vladd responded with this.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=15308299#post15308299

Wow- Good info. Thanks

Yup, it used to be true but they started recompressing shortly before I did that test.

So I'm switching from Direct tv to cable tomorrow. Doing a bundle type of deal combining cable, phone and internet.

Whenever I want the best signal to watch a fotball game I bypass my sat box and go straight OTA. I get a better signal that way.

The cable guy told me that the locals that I get via their box will be just as high of quality as the OTA stuff. Is this true? I live here in KY and the cable company is insight.

MColeman,
I wish you luck with your DVR from Insight. I had Insight for more then 12 years without a problem, but in May of 2008 I upgraded to HD and the Moto box I got from Insight was a piece of crap. Insight replaced it 3 times in 6 months. One time, the "new" box that was replacing a box that the HDD had died in, had to be replace after the tech had it all set up because it would not work. He tried for 45min to get it to work, then unhooked it and got another "new" box. That one did work, but we always had trouble getting the remote to work. The box just would not respond.
In June of this year I moved to Fairdale and was able to get Dish. Both my wife and I are very happy with the Dish's DVR.
I don't work for Dish, or ever had, and I'm not trying to sell Dish. I'm just stating that IMO the Motorola DVR that Insight rents to their customers is very out dated and not user friendly.
I do wish you well,
Ghpr13:)

KET will begin broadcasting HD content 24/7 on KET1 starting today, for anyone interested.

http://www.wfpl.org/2009/09/30/ket-1-going-entirely-hd/

Also, I noticed a large number of AT&T trucks in the Brookhaven neighborhood the past couple of days. I'm not sure if its related to U-verse or not.

I was watching Masterpiece Theater OTA on KET-1 last night and heard another male voice in my rear channel speakers, it was discribing the actions taking place on the TV screen. Like CC for the blind maybe. It was very distracting.

What happened KET?

PS: Earlier there was tone on KET-1 that made impossible to watch

Sounds like you may have turned on SAP audio. There should be a function to turn it off in your TV.

- Trip

I was watching Masterpiece Theater OTA on KET-1 last night and heard another male voice in my rear channel speakers, it was discribing the actions taking place on the TV screen. Like CC for the blind maybe. It was very distracting.

What happened KET?

PS: Earlier there was tone on KET-1 that made impossible to watch

I had this happen too, on a cartoon my son was watching. I was thinking it was odd that there was a strange, quiet narration going on in my left ear. I'm using media center straight to the receiver. I haven't heard is since but I'll check for SAP too.

Its and issue on our end... we're working on it..

William

Its and issue on our end... we're working on it..

William

Also ... it looks like you're tickling the HD-TiVo's (HR10-250) bug again. It's hit or miss, though. Sometimes it's the full stop-motion video effect, sometimes it's just the audio dropping in and out. Whatever it is, it's not affecting my other receiver.

Also ... it looks like you're tickling the HD-TiVo's (HR10-250) bug again. It's hit or miss, though. Sometimes it's the full stop-motion video effect, sometimes it's just the audio dropping in and out. Whatever it is, it's not affecting my other receiver.

Just the HD or all services?


Since it was a total re-configuration all bets are off..

Just spoke with a CSR at a local AT&T store. (Had to get a new sim card) He said he thought about 40% of Louisville would be available for U-verse when its completely rolled out and that right now he knew the Highlands and the area around the Summit were getting it. He said 18Mbps was going to be available. He also mentioned it will be a more reliable connection speed compared to Insight. Not sure about anyone else, but I always see my 10Mbps when I test my connection.

Just the HD or all services?

As far as I can tell it's only on the HD sub. And it does seem to be somewhat program dependent. I watched a bit of the Nightly Biz Report (Tue 10/6) and it was ok, but then it started hiccuping through the KET cards. By the time Darwin started, I bailed out to the other receiver. BTW, I did notice that you went back to 2.0 tonight, but that didn't seem to have much effect on the problem.

It was working OK before the reconfigure, so if you can remember what you did to fix it last time .... yeah, I know .... ;)

Low priority, I can always watch KET-HD live as long as it's not between 8-10pm Thursday nights.

Its and issue on our end... we're working on it..

William

Thanks for head up. For the others, I didn't have SAP turned on

I have not noticed before, but it looks like WGN and Liftetime HD were added into Insight's HD lineup recently. I just noticed the two channels show up yesterday does any one know when they were added?

Is wlky news in hd? No bars on 11:00 news

Is wlky news in hd? No bars on 11:00 news
Still looks like SD to me, just scaled to 16:9.

Digital channel 24 is on the air... 24-1, 24-2, and 24.3

Digital channel 24 is on the air... 24-1, 24-2, and 24.3

What is it? My hdhomerun tuner is showing 24.1 WYCS, 34.2 WBKI, and 9.1 WNDA on RF 24. This appears to be a local SD feed of WBKI or at least the second sub-channel is.

Well it was showing this. Now it shows no data.

OK now it shows:

24.1 WBKI
24.2 WYCS
24.3 WNDA

But it has been fluctuating order and numbering quite a bit.

What is it? My hdhomerun tuner is showing 24.1 WYCS, 34.2 WBKI, and 9.1 WNDA on RF 24. This appears to be a local SD feed of WBKI or at least the second sub-channel is.

Well it was showing this. Now it shows no data.

Speaking of WBKI (34.1 via ch19,) does anyone know why the CW-HD feed is down? ... Flooded dish? ... Mucking about with the configuration(s)?

Speaking of WBKI (34.1 via ch19,) does anyone know why the CW-HD feed is down? ... Flooded dish? ... Mucking about with the configuration(s)?

In case it helps, I'm getting 34.1 in at the moment.

In case it helps, I'm getting 34.1 in at the moment.

Yeah so am I ... in glorious upcoverted 4:3 SD ... the problem is that there's been no network HD feed from CW for the past week.

Yeah so am I ... in glorious upcoverted 4:3 SD ... the problem is that there's been no network HD feed from CW for the past week.

Sorry, thought you were implying that the entire feed was down. I called WBKI about that and RF 24. They are aware of the HD problem and hope to have it online as soon as possible. They didn't give me a cause.

As far as RF 24, they were surprised I knew about it as it is officially supposed to be online today at noon. It should show up as 34-2.

As far as RF 24, they were surprised I knew about it as it is officially supposed to be online today at noon. It should show up as 34-2.

Yeah, I was pulling it in a little while ago. Interesting use of an LD. I wonder if this means WBKI is going to abandon their own LD plans.

Yeah, I was pulling it in a little while ago. Interesting use of an LD. I wonder if this means WBKI is going to abandon their own LD plans.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

The conversion of analog Ch28 to digital (ch34 RF.) Frankly, I don't see the point of WBKI going up on ch24, unless it's just a temporary "fix."

... in any case, day 8+ of no CW-HD is more troubling (to me.)

The conversion of analog Ch28 to digital (ch34 RF.) Frankly, I don't see the point of WBKI going up on ch24, unless it's just a temporary "fix.

I was under the impression that there were two separate broadcasts from Floyds Knobs. The analog signal on 28 (RF 28) and the digital on 34.2 (RF24). I have an hdhomerun so I can't see ch28 to check. I was thinking that this may be a step in the transition to make their RF 28 broadcast a digital HD signal for the Louisville area while maintaining an SD broadcast. Maybe thats not possible. I do know their rep. said he was sure they plan to transition to an HD feed for Louisville but gave no specifics.

... in any case, day 8+ of no CW-HD is more troubling (to me.)

I agree. I recently spent a lot of time and money in my change to OTA to get this channel in from Louisville, a separate antenna, preamp and jointenna, not to mention the various setups I had to go through. Just for the HD.

Hey folks, new here... Right now we're using indoor antennas since we're quite close to the knobs, but I'm in the process of putting up a small outside antenna. I hooked up the outside antenna today temporarily to test it out and noticed I was getting WBKI on 34.2 for the first time. It had good signal but no audio -- anybody else notice that today, or was something broken on my side? :D

Hmm, something was broken on their side. We're getting audio on 34-2 now with and even picking it up with our rabbit ears.

Louisville area DirecTV subscribers:

Could you clarify a local programming question? I had heard a rumor that they would be adding PBS HD. But the online local channel lookup tool now lists WKMJ 68-2, which would imply a simulcast of what is already shown on WKPC 15. What are they actually showing on these channels?

The CW is back to broadcasting in HD on 34.1 (RF19).

Wikipedia is stating that WBKI is broadcasting on 28 and 34, both from Floyds Knobs. I assume the channel 34 reference is digital 34.2 on RF 24. My hdhomerun is digital only. Out of curiosity, can anyone confirm that WBKI is still broadcasting analog on 28?

The CW is back to broadcasting in HD on 34.1 (RF19).


Yep ... they got it fixed in time for "Smallville" last Friday.


Wikipedia is stating that WBKI is broadcasting on 28 and 34, both from Floyds Knobs. I assume the channel 34 reference is digital 34.2 on RF 24. My hdhomerun is digital only. Out of curiosity, can anyone confirm that WBKI is still broadcasting analog on 28?

I was still getting something analog on Ch28 last week. Being 75(ish) miles from the tower, I couldn't tell exactly what it was, but, I thought I could make out a WBKI logo through the snow. I have gotten whiffs of something digital on ch34, but I'm pretty sure it's *not* WBKI-LD ... yet. Probably something bouncing in from another distant market.

Ch24 (W24BM) digital appears to be something entirely different ... not owned or operated by WBKI.

Yes I am getting 28 analog ntsc over the air. Good and solid. I also get 34.1 with lots of breakup and audio dropouts. Will try and get better with my antenna but, I now get everyone else rock solid. 34.1 on Direct TV by Sat. is fine. Must be running a low power on digital....week signal here. I receive nothing on 24.

I am not receiving 34.1 via antenna. I am receiving 34.2. Are they being broadcast from different locations?

I am not receiving 34.1 via antenna. I am receiving 34.2. Are they being broadcast from different locations?

Yes, and on different RF frequencies.

Digital 34.1 is being broadcast from an antenna between Bardstown and Campbellsville KY, to the south of Louisville. This is the HD feed of WBKI on RF 19. This is a high power broadcast for the whole central Kentucky area.

Digital 34.2 is being broadcast from Floyds Knobs IN, to the NW of Louisville. This is the digital standard definition feed of WBKI on RF 24 for the Louisville area. It is a much lower power broadcast than the HD feed.

In addition, they are broadcasting another signal from Floyds Knobs. This is an analog feed of WBKI on RF 28. This is also a lower power feed for Louisville.