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silvermaxd,

No sign here either.Best ABC reception here is analog WTVQ (Lex) @107mi.Nearly snow-free.Hope it stays that way until the race is over!

A whole weekend of crusade for children and no Hamptons. I wonder when will see the hamptons? The paper say's it's on tonight part 2 of 2. What about 1 of 2?

There is an article in this weeks LEO dealing with HD
Did you all know that it is required by the FCC
I have written the author
And told him to come here for answers.

Silvermaxd,
I don't think WHAS would let anything preempt the crusade.
It's a big deal down there

can't they put different programming on the digital channel seperate from the analog one sometimes?

Can = yes
Will= ???

OK,

I picked up a DTC100 at Circuit City today (just for a trial). I got WHAS (on 55) first try! Also, I get KET on 17 (instead of 15 on the Zenith).

So now I guess it's back to Zenith to find out what their explanation is.

Turn OFf-AIR guides ON and rescan the channels. It should work then.

William

William,

Do you know how to do that specifically on the DTV1080? We couldn't figure out how.

Thanks,

brian

I just put in the 8vsb OTA module in my Echostar 6000 and hooked up a channel master 4228 antenna. Watched WHAS 55 and 4 KET HD channels last night. Pretty nice. Seemed that I recieved better signal after the rain yesterday than the day before when I first tried to get 55. Now I have CBS-HD, WHAS-HD, HBO-HD, Showtime-HD and KET-HD. I have had this HD tv for 2 years and just got HD in the past few months. I am starting to like the choices!!! I live approx 60 miles from Louisville but I am sure it is closer "as the crow flies". COME ON WLKY, WAVE and WDRB GET WITH IT!

I talked to Zenith today... their tech support guy was very nice by the way. He seems to think the problem may be in the way that WHAS is broadcasting their signal. William, I found the "turn off air guides" on part of the Setup Menu (DirecTV, Initial Setup, Channel Setup). Funny thing is, it adds another digital station (68), but not WHAS-HD. I'm assuming it's adding channels that are SUPPOSED to be there, but aren't necessarily strong enough to receive. Maybe WHAS is transmitting in a way that the DTV1080 just can't map. Anyway, he will send me a new STB if necessary, but he doubts whether that will help. If not, I may try to get a refund - that is a really big strike against the Zenith (at least for me).

68 Digital is the mate to WKMJ. We don't have it up yet and won't for a while.

Please see this thread for updated programming information:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...hreadid=147028

Thanks
William

Update -

I'm getting WHAS now with no problem. It did turn out to be a PSIP problem with the Zentith DTV1080. Zenith could not help me (they sent me a new box the day before I found the solution), but WHAS did. I ended up talking to Steve Beall (like Bell) at 582-7727. He seems to be the expert on their HD setup. He suggested that the PSIP stream was the problem (at least the DTV1080's ability to deal with it). He was kind enough to turn it off for me one night and voila - I tuned it in on the first try! My antenna is not even mounted yet (just sitting in a bedroom upstairs on the west side of the house), so it was obviously not a signal problem. Once it was tuned in, it held the next day after he turned the PSIP stream back on. He said that they had cured problems with Sony STB's by doing this. He did say that they are going to be upgrading to a Trivini system (don't appreciate the technical aspects) that he hopes will be more compatible with all STB's.

I would like to thank Steve (and WHAS) VERY MUCH for all of his help. It's good to know that there are station folks out there (William Smith also) that are willing to help....

here is what they said when I asked them when they would be up and running with digital TV.

reply:
WAVE should be on the air with digital by late Fall. We have most of the
equipment and are presently constructing the building for the transmitter.
When the building is complete, we will install the transmitter and be ready
to start digital broadcasting.

Thank You

Bill Eschbach
WAVE

What's up with WKET tonight. I've been waiting for Japan's Secret Garden in HD and its only on in SD with multicasting. I thought HD would continue on KET until July. This is very disappointing.

Was it on our website as in HD or did you get the info from PBS? Send programming questions to DTVhelp@ket.org.

Now that wave-3 has targeted late fall ( isn't that the same as early winter?) we might see them on air by spring. Any word on wlky? Last time I saw something posted it was mid-summer or we looking at "late fall" for them as well now? BTW, anyone surprised by these stations missing the May 1 deadline? I am still shocked that whas made it

I bet(and hope)that they are all gonna try and be on when all the regular shows start airing their season premiers.

William
Thanks for the reply. Yes it was on the KET goes Digital website as
"Nova: Japan's Secret Garden (HD)". Usually these listings have been accurate in terms of SD widescreen or HD. However, in this case it was not correct. This was the only HD listing for the month so I was trying to catch it if possible. Any chance it will be rebroadcast in HD?

I doubt it, If I get a minute I'll check the automated switching system to see if it was programmed but I doubt it was. The person who took over that task just got back from D.C. and has been swamped.

Sorry, even we miss occassionally.

Hang on this is fun stuff...

William

Anyone have an update on WLKY's time table for testing their HD transmissions? Last I heard was "late summer". Anyone?

I received an e-mail from Jim Mercer at the the station and here is what he told me:


"The construction process is stalled. WLKY is leasing space in a building
being constructed by another party. The progress on that construction is
behind where I wish it to be. Hopefully is will get moving soon."

sounds like it will probably be in the fall is my guess.

What's the status on WHAS-ABC HDTV? I still haven't found enough reason to go out and buy a HDTV decoder (again), but if they have their act together and broadcasting an HDTV signal properly, then I think it would be worth it.

Any comments? Thanks for the help!

I have been watching it and they seem to have thier sh** together now. When broadcasting a HD signal the picture looks good and fills the screen, the sound is good. When they show standard TV the picture is side cropped. They switch between the modes for commercials and back without problems. I believe they are still at low power but I recieve the signal fine.

silvermaxd, was that recently that you received that e-mail from WLKY? If they a still in the construction stage it might be late fall before even testing

stovetop, WHAS-DT is working fine but at low-power. I've seen zero problems except for occasional stutter or pixelization which may be power related.

MichaelZ,
I got the e-mail from WLKY on july 16

I thought I would resurrect this thread to remind everyone how dead HDTV is in Louisville right now. We fortunately have WHAS-DT (abc) and PBS-DT but the rest of the stations missed May 1 and TitanTv now shows Nov.1 for both WAVE(nbc) and WLKY(cbs) and first of the year for Fox and next May for the the stations left.
I remember, just yesterday(actually more than a year ago), asking for a waiver from WLKY for CBS-HD on Dish and of course, was denied. They stated they would be up by May 1, 2002 and we now know that was a laugh. I am glad I got ExpressVu, back them, and I am going to enjoy CSI and other new CBS shows. Others here may want to look at that option - I would not be surprised if WLKY will not have their HDTV antenna up by next fall.

Yep, still waiting for the stations here to get their act together.

The bad part is now I watch crap on ABC just because it's HD. With NBC finally offering a few shows in HD it'd be nice to be able to actually get them. Ditto CBS and FOX, even if FOX is FAUX HD

No new news here......

We MAY be able to get the WKMJ-DT
(companion for 68)
transmitter on the air by the first of next year.
It's the last one that we have to deal with.
(It's not a normal instalation)