Las Vegas, NV - HDTV - Page 48

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I'm confident you're correct; I was lamenting the fact that I lack an HDTV set....(still!)

Emailed KVVU Fox 5 Engineering last night and got a response this morning:

FOX is installing their equipment this week. We should be able to
pass the FOX HD by the end of the week.

Jack Smith

Jack, great news. Since you have contact with KVVU engineering could you ask them to set the gray pillarbars back to black? While infinitely better than stretch-o-vision, the gray bars are slightly distracting because they don't quite match up with the border of the 4:3 picture, leaving a black space that really stands out.

Jack Smith is in the Engineering Dept at KVVU

looks like HBO and MAX on demand has been added..ch 214/234. HBO has several categories to choose the reruns from..."kids movies", "series", etc.
MAX even has an "max after dark" category for all you horny bastards out there !

Got an e-mail reply today.

FOX is currently installing the equipment needed to broadcast FOX sports & prime programming in HD. We are hoping it will be active by this weekend.

Leilani Molinaro (Lani)
Exe. Sec./Programming Asst.
KVVU FOX5
25 TV5 Drive
Henderson, NV 89014

Now I'm set for the rest of the season!

Quick question on the EOD -HBO and Cinemax. If you subsrcibe to both channels, is the EOD free?

No only the HBO and Cinamax are Free.

Be careful! The first selection is EOD movies, which are individually charged and the price is shown when selected. The HBO and Cinemax EOD is included with your subscription to those service and is no charge, so you should see the price as $0.00.
Too bad the Sopranos selections are all from season 2. I was hoping to catch up on the last episodes. The Kids stuff is nice though.

vegggas

Veggas...

What channel is HBO EOD?

Tx,

Steve

Ps. how is the DVI working on the DVR?

Looking at the guide, it says 215 HOD HBO On Demand

I don't use DVI and prefer the analog component on a CRT scanning projector. On some testing, I noticed a bit more blocking from a digital source to a digital display. YMMV with the type of set used, etc.

vegggas

I called KVVU late this afternoon (Friday) and was told by the receptionist that HD was "supposed" to be ready this weekend, but they were still working on it so she could not say for sure. For what it's worth, she didn't sound very positive...

Keith

Vegggas,
Any info on when "pass through" will be pushed to the boxes? It's the tail end of Sept and I thought by now the powers that be would have given us back that much needed feature.
PT

The original date for DVI and passthrough was end of Sepember or early October. I've been testing it and it is the same as the 3250, but it does hang once in a while. I still used fixed at 1080i for almost everything, and go to 480i standard when I watch a "widescreen" not in HD show on upn, so that my set can do the conversion. I don't like the fact that my set takes 3 seconds to change resolutions each time either.

FoxHD is still doing splicer testing. The color bars are up right now with a Dolby Digital signal (beeeeeep!) and the splicer logo way down in the lower right corner. I recorded a few minutes of it to have as test material for calibration. Looks like it is partially installed and they are just trying to get the feeds set up.

vegggas
edit: My OTA Samsung box will hang and reboot if I try to hit the display button for the HD or SD fox channel. All others appear ok.
Edit again: As of 11:00 AM, no more reboots, but PSIP info is Central time.

Edit again: 11:28 FOX HD back on the air!

veggas, yeah can see a buggy looking Fox bug in the gray sidebars now, I'm taking that to mean that the engineering folks at KVVU are doing everything they can to get the splicer up tomorrow.

I noticed today's MLB on Fox Game (SD at SF) had black sidebars and the SD picture looked really nice.

The splicer is up and the NFL pregame looks very pretty.

Yes it does...........the program before the pregame show....Fox News Sunday looked very good.

Hmm... let the comparisons begin!
So far so good - What was that scratchy sound and audio change with the ref?
Only getting DD2.0 not DD5.1 Can anyone else confirm?
I'm not getting any sound at all through the rear speakers and the center is much louder than the fronts.
Update - Ouch! Lud commercials. The intro graphics going back to the game had rear sound??

vegggas

FoxHD WOW!!!!! what a picture. that overhead camera is great...makes you feel like you're sitting right there in the stadium

At 10:30, we got some surround info after returning from commercials.

Vegggas

Now, I wonder if Speed will be in HD on Fox tonite.

They had the perfect opportunity to show the CSI Pilot last night as a network HD feed. The splicer was in the mix and we saw that logo in the lower corner during CSI, but it appeared not to be set in HD.
We have two movies tonight, Star Trek and Speed, We will have to see what they do...

vegggas

vegggas, I haven't heard of any syndication programming being in HD anywhere yet. I doubt KVVU has an HD tape system yet, so I don't even think it's possible unless Fox bought the national syndication rights.

I was just wondering, because CSI premiered last night on FOX with the Pilot episode and continues tonight after primetime. This was a national feed through the splicer, so it would have been possible if FOX had the rights to do so. FOX as a network, would have had a great way to showcase HD if they had picked it up, but it appears that their HD will be only available for native programming. As for syndication in HD, other than Hogans Heros, I haven't heard of any syndicated program in HD either - Just wishful thinking.

vegggas

Does anyone know the QAM channel number Fox is on? I tried what it was on last week(105 or 106 or something) and it wasnt there. I'd scan it myself but it takes a good 15-30 minutes to go over the whole 135-channel spectrum, and I dont want to miss that much football.

Following the tried and true formula for american RF channel frequencies:
Target Freq= 723Mhz(FoxHD) - 51Mhz (start of RF channel frequencies[ch2]) = 672 Mhz
672Mhz divided by each 6Mhz channel alocation (6Mhz each) = Channel 112
I would try channel 112 to see what you've got.

vegggas
edit - Frequency for any channel is found in the diagnostic menu page 1

v

Star Trek is not in HD on FOX right now, but many think Speed, a FOX movie, WILL be in HD tonight... Voom has it listed as HD in their guide.

vegggas
edit: East coasters say it's not in HD, even though it's through the splicer.
v

What CSI is on Fox? Is it the syndicated series?

Fox is promoting the syndicated CSI: Las Vegas. They had the premier Saturday Night with the pilot episode of CSI: Las Vegas from the first season. Tonight they have the second episode and so forth.

vegggas