Greenville, SC - HDTV - Page 5

I had my antenna installer come to check my video drop out, and he was able to improve my 7-1 and 4-1 signal strength by changing out the 8 bay antenna, and substituting two 4 bay units pointing slightly differently; he also added a little more mast height (don't tell my wife). I am in Greenville about one mile South of I-85 and I-385 intersection (Collins Creek)
All video breakup that I saw on Sunday is gone.
Unfortunately, the audio on 7-1 was moderately garbled during the Tuesday evening prime-time broadcast period. Sure hope WSPA will do something before the S-Bowl.

Also, I noted something last night on4-1. My Sony menu showed a 720P signal. I thought NBC was 1080I. I'm pretty sure I've seen 1080I there before. The picture was still 4:3 as usual. SZ

Soarsz

You stated the signal was 720p on NBC last night and the picture was only 4 X 3. Everything I watched on NBC last night (including the State of the Union address) was 16 X 9 HD. I think ABC had the pool feed for the SOU address and they do 720p, so maybe that has something to do with you seeing 720p indicated by your receiver.

Also, what model antenna do you have? Anytime I have tried to combine it antennas it created more problems than it solved.

Jerry- The State of the Union started out in HD on WSPA-DT. The sound was even worse than normal. I guess that is why they switched to the SD feed.

"Stacking like antennas, especially pointed the same direction, is relatively simple using coax combiners/splitters with equal length cable between antennas and combiner." When I tried this it just seemed to make my multi-path problems worse.

"We are in the process of upgrading our network receiver as well as the Dolby 5.1 surround sound. This is actually taking place today 1/22/04 and should be online very soon. "

Young and the Restless is showing up as 5.1 on my receiver. I believe this is only DD2.0.

Jerry: I stacked cm4221's with a cm7777 pre-amp. I also tried with cm4228's. I tried with and without the pre-amp. It was over a year ago that I tried this. I did alot of experimenting and the best results came with the 4221 with the 7777 pre-amp.

Also: I lost a little range (WBTV-DT) with the 4221 vs the 4228 but found I didn't have to use the rotor nearly as much with the 4221 so I stuck with that.

I've got a question about WSPA TV. Since I started using my HDTV receiver I've had trouble getting WSPA using my roof mounted antenna with a booster, which pulls in most of the other area stations fine.

The signal here should be very good for this channel so I basically narrowed the problem down to multipath and decided to try an indoor antenna for it. I picked up a Silver Sensor and it has improved the picture quality overall but i'm still getting pixellation in certain places.

While watching their news or a TV show the picture is fine when the newscast or program is playing, but when they go to a commercial at least part of the screen turns into pixels when they make the switch from the feed to the commercials, and this also occurs during the commercials themselves. When the program returns it does it as it comes back on but then it clears up again right after that.

Anybody have any suggestions? With March Madness coming up I really need to be able to pick up CBS, that frankly is the whole reason I invested in HDTV hardware in the first place. It obviously can't be a weak signal or I wouldn't be able to pick it up with the indoor antenna, and the outdoor one would be clearer.

Jerry I agree with your booster analysis, the signal looks HORRIBLE with the boosted antenna. It comes in clear however with the indoor antenna (which TitanTV and the old Antenna web noted would be sufficient), it just breaks up at those "spots" I mentioned in programs. The remainder of the program plays fine.

It's almost like an encoding problem but since others haven't mentioned the same problem I don't think that's it.

It's almost like the signal is too strong with the boosted antenna (or is suffering from multipath issues, OR Both) but with the Silver Sensor there are still tiny patches of video breakup. The audio remains consistent however.

I wonder if I should try a multi-directional indoor antenna and see how that works?

fishman and all

I'm going to take back what I said in an earlier post about my LG3200A not being as sensitive as the old DTC-100. It was "pilot error". In my haste during initial setup, I was a little careless on my zip codes for the local channel program guides. Last night I noticed that several channels in the guide were inconsistent with the actual programming (e.g. WSOC out of Charlotte was actually coming in but on the guide it was listed as 35-1 PAX instead of 34-1 ABC) . After fine tuning those set-up zip codes things are where they should be and I am (at least this am) getting a usuable signal from ABC Charlotte on 9-1.

barney

I thought so too. Did your receiver indicate 5.1 even though it is actually only 2.0?

I thought it sounded better, but I had lip synch issues. Did you guys not have that?

Mike

No lip sync issues for me. I get this on my E86 occsionally and I just cut the box off and then on again and that put the lips back in sync for my unit.

Apps1 thank you, that seams to have solved the problem for me.

I just caught a promo for HDTV on WSPA. The jist of it was they were the only source to get the Super Bowl in HD and Surround Sound. They mentioned at the end to contact your cable company about carrying WSPA-DT. Maybe this will motivate Charter, WLOS, and WHNS to get their butts in gear.

Just asking here now, but why should it? They do not have a marque event to push like the Super Bowl.

"Just asking here now, but why should it? They do not have a marque event to push like the Super Bowl."

I dont see this as really being about 1 Football game. Hopefully it will increase awareness of HD in the area, and lead to more people asking their cable companies and local affiliates to pass along the HD feeds. I would think the more people asking to receive the HD feeds only helps to get these companies at least thinking about the prospect of providing what customers want.

But FOX does have NASCAR in widescreen and maybe it will help get WHNS off their cheapskate rears and put it on in widescreen.

The only thing that was out of sync on my end was the Half-Time show. What were they thinking? I had no audio problems.