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KAIL-HD is now available on Dish Network.

I emailed Gary Temple, Director of Engineering at KGPE and he said that there are too many other higher priority issues getting in the way and that he will continue to fight for that upgrade.

KFSN is an ABC O&O, but it's been sending DD5.1 for around 10 years now. Let's go KGPE!

David

Amazing.

update 11/30: KVPT-HD is now available on Dish Network. 4th entry under Channel Package Flag Changes

update 12/1: KMPH and KFRE won't go away on Dish. The company that owns them, Titan, reached a deal with Dish yesterday.

update 2/8: KFRE-HD CW 59 and KTFF-HD Telefutura 61 are now available on Dish Network. KNSO-HD 51 Telemundo and 30-2 are the only local HD channels not on Dish.



Small changes to some OTA subchannels (all of these are SD):

32-1 used to be Universal Sports, but that channel dropped out of OTA transmission. Now, it's a channel of various places in the world called Escapes.

24-2 switched weather companies. It is now an AccuWeather subchannel, which was what 30-3 used to be.

Another Hmong channel is up at 4-5, which was on 32-3.

33-4 is TheCoolTV, a channel of random music videos.

2/22 update:
The horse channel, Pegasus TV, on 59-3 is no more. It's now a mirror of 59-2.

Another HD Dish Network update:
From April 11, KNSO-HD is now available for Dish Network subscribers!
The SD feed is still a 16:9 picture squished into a 4:3 screen.

2 more SD subchannels are up on OTA: both Spanish channels found under 51.

Comcast will go all digital on April 10.

Does anyone know if more HD channels are coming after that?

I have Dish with locals, but I've been able to get most of our other locals quite easily with the Mohu antenna. The flat one you can stick on a wall, window, etc.
In the North-South orientation.

I live in east Clovis, so location will make some difference, but thought I would mention it. It is the only indoor antenna I've used that actually works very well. They sell a powered model also, but it does not get the great reviews of the cheaper one.

KMPH is rebroadcasting the F1 race (on delay) and for the second race in a row they are failing to show the race in it's proper format. It appears to be 16:9, but it is smaller than it should be. The video quality also appears to be SD. We don't see these sorts of problems on Speed. Anyone know what the problem is??

I watched the race on the Bakersfield fox station at the correct time and the picture was very good. I live in Exeter and can get both Bakersfield and Fresno stations.

Thanks... My email to FOX received a form email response. Does anyone have a good email for the engineering department, or perhaps even better the Chief Engineer?

Wow, big changes happened to over-the-air channel 43.

We have a new HD channel in the area. It is another Spanish channel, though.
The 24/7 SD infomercial channel KGMC 43.1 switched to MundoFox, a brand new national Spanish HD network. The resolution is 720p and for now, all programming is HD.

I still can't believe 43 became an HD channel. I thought it would die off in a few years.


update 9/1:
43.5 Antenna TV is now back to broadcasting out of RF 43. Also, the framerate problems on 43.1 seems to have gone away now.

43.1 has been showing reruns of past UFC events in HD, which is pretty nice. The commentary is in Spanish, but I can live with that.
Edited by louie826 - 9/3/12 at 12:35am

KAIL added 7-3 WeatherNation

Update 9/26: HD channel 43.1 is now available on Dish Network
Edited by louie826 - 9/27/12 at 1:05am

Last night I watched the season opener of Hawaii 5-o that I recorded on my tivo and was surprised that channel 47 KGPE was 5.1 dolby sound. It is about time that 47 upgraded their sound.

I watched the beginning of Vegas this morning and can confirm DD5.1 from KGPE. Woo hoo!!!

Had PBS 18-1 KVPT-HD yesterday, today no signal? Anyone else with this problem?

No problems with OTA broadcast.

Any one ever had a skip on play back on channel 30.1 ( KFSN ) on a DVR /HDD

Dave

Nothing that I recall OTA.

Today new one the (EPG) electronic program guide does not display only on one channel 24.1,24.2&24.3 (note: it is not the same channel will record right) I have over 50 channel the all work but this one and will record great.
Does this happen some time and will it come soon

Dave

Update ePVision.com

Hi David,

PHD-VRX currently supports free EPG data, which is provided by your local TV stations. If you use OTA (over-the-air) signal, your TV stations will broadcast the EPG data. The length of the EPG data (how many days) will be determined by your TV statioWe have no controntrol of it. We only display EPG data whatever we received. For your local cable company, they normally won't send these EPG data from their QAM channels. Again, it depends your local cable company, we have no control of You can call your local cable company or TV stations to ask them to send out the data.ata.

Later on, we will make unit linkable with a 3rd party EPG service provider. Once you pay them yearly fee directly (we don't involve any fee with them), you can log in your user name and password in the PHD-VRX unit, then you will have 14 days full EPG data on OTA channels, not on cable channels because cable QAM channel has the total different channel mapping. Thanks again.

Support Team
ePVision.com

Does any one in the FRESNO/CLOVIS area have the epvision PHD VRX DVR
Do you have any prolbem with a skip on channel 30.1

Dave

Here some think about WHAT will this do for DVR's see below
Note: In Fresno & Clovis it is channel 30
Does any have problem with channel 30

Disney's ABC television network is trying to shut down Dish Network's ad-skipping TV recording feature two weeks after a federal judge denied a similar bid by a different broadcaster. The dispute over Dish’s ad-skipping technology, which broadcasters warn threatens their very survival, is being played out in federal courts on both coasts.

Dish, based in Englewood, Colorado, introduced its new digital video recorder, the Hopper, in March. Its PrimeTime Anytime feature can record all the major networks’ primetime shows and store them for eight days after their initial broadcast. AutoHop, introduced in May, allows viewers, with the touch of a button, to skip all the ads automatically, without having to manually fast-forward through them. The broadcasters claim that AutoHop “will ultimately destroy the advertiser-supported ecosystem” the networks depend on for revenue.
by Don Jeffreyeyreyey

Try this one Removing Commercials how will this change DVR's
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Removing_Commercials

Okay - I gave up dtv today... A subscriber on and off since 1998 - going to try to go OTA out here in the Sierra. I used OTA in the hills back on the east coast, so I have a little familiarity with what I am undertaking.

TV Fool says I am a fool. I need a great UHF antenna and lots of luck to try to squeeze some signal out. Anybody else up in the foothills using a setup they would recommend?

If you need DVR try a Epvision PHD VRX works great will record 2 programs at one time

Best long range UHF antenna is probably the 91XG from Antennas Direct. And if you are extreme fringe, you may need to combine two together, along with a low noise preamp such as Kitztech 200. Or perhaps comine two 8-bays together. And if you need VHF, then Winegard has a large 7-13 antenna.

I think tylerSC has it right. I might suggest looking to see if any neighbors are going OTA and talking to them.

Down here in the flatland I’m behind a 2-edge diffraction for most of the Fresno stations. So FWIW, I have a CM 3671 and a CM 7777 preamp on the north facing antenna hoisted on a 60-foot tower. Using the TV Fool analysis I see that I can pull in stations as weak as about -92 dBm. Weather and the cows on Stokes Mountain may interfere at times.

Thanks. I think I'll take a look from my roof first and then probably go with a 91XG. I'll post on here how it goes