Las Vegas, NV - HDTV - Page 204

Originally Posted by rsblaski

I've posted similar statements to Froggy. I don't think we'll get a response since I don't believe he deals with facts--only (his) opinions. I suggested that he should have had his equipment checked. Seven years in Henderson and 1.5 years in Pahrump and I never had a rain fade with D* but did lose my Cox cable modem on more than one occasion.

Originally Posted by foghorn2

I really do not understand your guys logic. Just because you've never experienced rain fade, it does not mean it does not exist.

You'd have to be watching TV at every storm we get which is rare to begin with for the last 10 years. As for Cox, never had an outage when we had a storm.

But you see, I'll never come here and state as a fact that Cox does not have outages during storms. I was not watching TV during EVERY storm we had for the last 10 years nor did I have their service for the last 10 years.

Please people, get some logic in your thinking process. You are quite embarASSing.

Originally Posted by lvthunder

So did anyone watch the Rebel game on Saturday night. What a hatchet job Cox did to that signal. The game was evidently shot in HD to show on Channel 4 in San Diego. So Cox took the 16x9 picture and squished is to SD 4X3. I couldn't even make out the score on my parents 40" LCD when I was within 2' without using the TV to stretch it back to 16X9. Too bad they didn't just show the HD feed. It was kind of funny to watch the SD commercials with the bars on the left and right on a old school 19" TV when we were eating dinner.

Originally Posted by Demodave

This is how Cox showd every Padres game on channel 96 this past season. They squished the HD 16x9 feed in to a SD 4x3 presentation. Obviously, Cox Las Vegas shoud've either shown the HD feed on a HD channel, or grabbed the SD feed from San Diego. And yes...there is a SD feed available because I've seen it on MLB Extra Innings while at the club bar in Chase Field in Phoenix. I was truly surprised that nobody at Cox
ever caught that they were airing the wrong feed of the Padres games. Obviously, that same engineer hooked up the Rebels game with the same wrong feed. Maybe Vegggas can inform his Cox buddies of the error so that it doesn't happen next year.

Originally Posted by Word Maestro

I don't believe it's an error.

That "squished" HD feed can be manipulated by your TV to produce a full screen 16:9 picture with NO distortion by simply going to the "expand mode".
That squished picture (although occupying a 4:3 window) is taller and thinner than the ordinary 4:3 image. thus when expanding it to fill the entire screen, the picture appears in proper dimensions (no stretching at the sides). Of course, it's not true HD, but it DOES BECOME a full sized picture with NO distortions. I don't think their are too many things that Cox does right. But THAT WAS one of them.

Originally Posted by lvthunder

I would agree with you if it was a digital channel. This is an analog channel. My 4X3 SDTV that I bought 5-10 years ago don't stretch. They either need to letterbox it, make it an HD channel, or center crop the image.

Originally Posted by Word Maestro

And why are you talking about an SDTV on an HDTV forum?

Originally Posted by Word Maestro

Why does Discovery HD (Cox -Channel 700) look better than ANY OTHER HD station?

Originally Posted by smithy123

Another Quick question for cox las vegas. When will HBO STARZ etc be available in HD in demand? e.g. on channel 699?

i believe cox are releasing more hd channels next month (december) hgtv hd a & e hd etc etc

thanks

Originally Posted by smithy123


i believe cox are releasing more hd channels next month (december) hgtv hd a & e hd etc etc

thanks

Originally Posted by vegashomes

What is the latest hi-def stb that Cox offers?

Originally Posted by Word Maestro

As far as I know, they are still distributing 8300HDs.
And since Scientific Atlanta has stopped manufacturing them, all of the units from Cox are re-furbished.

Good luck!!

Originally Posted by laszlo5

i guess you don't know everything after all... they are using the 8240hdc. the "c" is for a cable card slot.

Originally Posted by laszlo5

i guess you don't know everything after all... they are using the 8240hdc. the "c" is for a cable card slot.

Originally Posted by gvc

forgive me for being naive, but other than a gov''t mandate, why does this box need a cable card slot since it is , by definition, a cable company decoder box. I understand the need for cable cards for Tivos, PC tuners, and non cable company hardware, but what will be the usability for the card in this particular Cox cable box?

Originally Posted by gvc

forgive me for being naive, but other than a gov''t mandate, why does this box need a cable card slot since it is , by definition, a cable company decoder box. I understand the need for cable cards for Tivos, PC tuners, and non cable company hardware, but what will be the usability for the card in this particular Cox cable box?

Originally Posted by Word Maestro

I don't believe I ever claimed to "know everything".
But I do know what's important and what's window dressing.
All of these acronyms (thrown around with abandon-with absolutely no reference to what they mean) is IMO, "WINDOW DRESSING". Used ONLY to impress other readers. Something I cannot, and would not wish to do, if I could.