Cincinnati, OH - HDTV - Page 457

Originally Posted by nickfinity

The dish is sitting on the side of the house just a few feet off the ground on a small pole. I've only ever seen antennas up in the air, but could I stick a U4000 or U8000 on the side of the house? I could probably get wife approval for that before I could get roof approval.

Originally Posted by microbob

I'm wondering when WKRC will add 5.1 audio, and show syndicated programs in HD? What's going to happen to ThisTV since it's scheduled to be replaced by Bounce TV early next year on 19.2? Will they add a 19.3 for ThisTV?

A well-known and much despised aspect of cable television is that you end up paying for channels you may never watch. In fact, on most cable systems, sports channels such as ESPN account for 40% of programming fees -- bad news if you couldn't care less about baseball or the Lumberjack Olympics.

In a study last year, the media and communications analysts at SNL Kagan found that fees paid for sports programing typically exceeded those charged to systems by more-watched networks such as Nickelodeon and USA. ESPN amounted to more than $4 of the average cable bill, compared with 8 cents for the Food Network and 21 cents for Syfy.

That matters a lot for the individual -- who might be a foodie or sci-fi fan who never watches sports -- or in the aggregate. For example: In the low-sports week of May 30 to June 5, according to the site TV by the Numbers, among cable channels in prime-time hours ESPN was ranked 19th, immediately behind the Food Network (No. 17) and Syfy (No. 18). Is EPSN really worth 5,000% more than the Food Network month in and month out?

Plenty of people don't think so, but consumer calls for a la carte pricing have been rejected and dismissed by networks and cable companies.

The old-school business model could be disrupted as more and more people "cut the cable" and instead use Netflix or go online to stream Netflix or to such online-only services as Hulu and Apple TV for their favorite shows. Recently, Microsoft announced plans to bring live television to the Xbox console. (Microsoft is the publisher of MSN Money.)

Industry groups such as the Consumer Electronics Association, however, are not quite ready to concede much impact from those alternatives. A survey released May 31 of 1,256 adults found that 76% of respondents said they were "unlikely or very unlikely" to cancel pay-TV service; just 10% said they were likely to do so.

Further solidifying the current cable-TV business model was an opinion issued June 3 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco. In the case of Brantley et al. v. NBC Universal Inc. et al., a three-judge panel ruled against the plaintiffs in the class-action suit and affirmed that "bundling" practices and requirements for "must-have channels" did not run afoul of antitrust laws.

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

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Originally Posted by Bubster

I did the cut 3 years ago. For the most part I dont miss it at all but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't wanting ESPN on occasion (and TNT for the NBA playoffs). I do have to get the most basic $13 package to get the Cincinnati locals out here in my radio wave black hole in Fairfield but I can live with that. I get all the Dayton channels almost perfectly in winter (no leaves on the trees) and it mostly usable this time of year but you can't count on it 100% of the time.

Thinking about picking up another HD Homerun tuner and having one dedicated to Dayton OTA and the other is already getting the Cincy clear QAM channels. This will come in handy for the NFL season, especially since I am no longer a Bengal fan after 41 loyal years.

Originally Posted by Bearcathalfk

Cable is but a distant memory.

Originally Posted by Bubster

Man, I hope there isn't any bad weather during football season, this will really annoy me

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

The other night WKRC had a weather alert ribbon across the top during the local evening news (6 pm) and it sure looked like they squished Rob and Cammie down to fit below it, since it would have probably cut off the tops of their heads. It was like when you put your widescreen TV on "stretch" to fill the screen with a 4:3 show, except it wasn't anamorphic stretch, it was just a stretch. I'm sure the anchors appreciated being shorter and wider.

Originally Posted by Bubster

If you look closely at those golf pics from last weekend that was actually part of my indignation. Not only the wasted space but the slight crop causing the black bar on the right AND it looked stretched.

All in all, I complain alot but think where television was even 10 years ago. I bought my Sammy DLP in December 2003 and that was still almost considered getting in on the ground floor, and there was alot more 4x3 SD programming than there was HD. Seems like yesterday I was watching the NBA playoffs and I cant recall which local station was pulling some low rez stretching shenanigans causing what we, here, referred to as the "jaggies". That's likely a very interesting stretch in this thread but I'm too lazy to look it up right now.

Moral of the story: I'm spoiled, so ignore me. (And yes, still chugging along on the 2003 Sammy DLP, third bulb is about 11 months old and 2nd color wheel the same).

Originally Posted by Bubster

Seems like yesterday I was watching the NBA playoffs and I cant recall which local station was pulling some low rez stretching shenanigans causing what we, here, referred to as the "jaggies". That's likely a very interesting stretch in this thread but I'm too lazy to look it up right now.

Originally Posted by jimp2244

Oh, the JAGGIES!! That's WCPO of course. The issue lasted well over a year. Here's a link to one of my posts on that waaay back. Unfortunately the screen shots are no longer available though. There are MANY posts before and after the linked one here, but it was the easiest for me to find via search.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...72#post7670872