Posts by amos1001

I have a few questions about cable that I'm sure some of you can answer. Where does the cable company get the local station's feeds? Back in the day it was OTA, with antennas cut for each station on the CATV tower. But where do they...

5:12pm and WBTV has been off for over 10 min. Watching on TMC so not sure where the problem is, but analog channel 3 just now put a slide up saying please stand by. On the digital channel (via QAM) still dead air. edit> now the...

Looks like WXII is getting ready for hi-def, their "olympic zone" program is using hi-def cameras in studio. a soft launch, i'd say. can a hi-def 6pm newscast be far behind? -amos

foxeng and rickey, THANK YOU very much for your answers. you guys are great! -amos

hey i have a couple of questions maybe you guys can answer... first, why did some stations choose to go back to the VHF channel for their DTV after feb 2009 (wghp, for instance) while others are staying on the new channel. also, will...

Hey guys, Lately I'm unable to get WUNL-DT with my OTA setup. I used to get it fine, and I still get all the other locals, including WXII-DT and all the Level Cross stations. Receiver says I'm getting a decent (75-80%) signal, but...

zane, as we expected, my brother's reception is great now. sorry it took so long to get that verified, but all is fixed just as we thought. thanks very much for working on it! -amos

Quote: Originally Posted by Zane live programmings frame rate of 30 frames vs film frame rate at 24 frames ahhh.. 24p. so i guess that means the vizio can't display 24p. i only understand the basics, but this wiki was...

Quote: Originally Posted by Zane I worked on the problem today and made some changes. I hope it's fixed. Zane, I'll check with my brother. It's probably fixed on his, too. By the way, as was mentioned by another poster it...

Quote: Originally Posted by Zane Living close to the studio would not have any effect one way or the other. The transmitter is at Level Cross. I borrowed a Vizio 26in LCD yesterday and watched it OTA last night compared to a...