New Orleans, LA - HDTV - Page 176

Originally Posted by digiblur

When they fired up the B'ham locals on a 61.5 spotbeam for EA, the 722 would pick that spotbeam half of the time instead of the 119 spotbeam resulting in no signal. So instead of swinging over to 129 I moved.

There's no Fox HD feed on the Jackson locals but I can get that OTA. So the SD issue isn't a problem.

I don't watch my own locals newscasts much less Jackson's, so it doesn't bother me

On a side note, it looks like New Orleans might be on the Dish HD locals plan soon with the new satellite going to 129, maybe even Baton Rouge too. But would I move back to BR? Nope.

Originally Posted by digiblur

When they fired up the B'ham locals on a 61.5 spotbeam for EA, the 722 would pick that spotbeam half of the time instead of the 119 spotbeam resulting in no signal. So instead of swinging over to 129 I moved.

There's no Fox HD feed on the Jackson locals but I can get that OTA. So the SD issue isn't a problem.

I don't watch my own locals newscasts much less Jackson's, so it doesn't bother me

On a side note, it looks like New Orleans might be on the Dish HD locals plan soon with the new satellite going to 129, maybe even Baton Rouge too. But would I move back to BR? Nope.

Originally Posted by dennispap

I hope you are right about the no hd locals, especially on 129. Would be nice to be able to record 2 hd locals at once.
Plus i have a feeling come jan 1st, dish will only have cbs sd baton rouge on locals, due to dish fighting with abc(off of locals for almost a year) and now fox 44,nbc33,cw21 saying if dish doesnt pay more come 12-31-08 they will be off of dish also. There goes my br ota guide info

Originally Posted by bigzeto

Is there anyone from WWL that visits this thread? I've noticed when watching sports on WWL, the picture gets blurry on fast moving scenes. From the research I've done on this forum and others, it has to do with a flexicoder setting. I have tried emailing the station to have this corrected, but have not gotten back a response. WWL is fantastic as a station due to the no multicasting, but this blur issue is very annoying when watching sports. The issue is not there when I watch CBS NFL Sunday Ticket games in the 700's on Directv. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get it touch with the station engineer, please let me know. Thanks

Originally Posted by bigzeto

bump as I still haven't been able to get this issue resolved. I got a response back from someone at WWL saying they think the processing that causes these blurs is turned off yet I continue to see it everytime I watch sports. I'm seeing it right now watching Army-Navy and would love to not have to deal with this during the Alabama-Florida game. I've also sent WWL-TV a PM but have not gotten back a response.

Originally Posted by raouliii

What brand of LCD do you have? There is a certain amount of motion blur associated with even HD sports but in many cases, the display technology/quality can make it unbearable or acceptable.

Originally Posted by raouliii

What brand of LCD do you have? There is a certain amount of motion blur associated with even HD sports but in many cases, the display technology/quality can make it unbearable or acceptable.

Originally Posted by Budha

I watch the Saints game and it was glitch free as much as I could tell, but the Dallas game was awful, especially in the 4th quarter, and the audio went out around 5 minutes left in the game, but it did come back, just wonder how much the cold weather played into the program quality, the problems were not enough to make me quit watching

Bob

Originally Posted by John4924

I was just trying to watch the Dallas / Pittsburgh game on Fox 8 and it was a virtual "glitch fest". I turned it off because it is so annoying.

I do not watch Fox that much. Is this what happens on every program on Fox, or do they just save it for football on Sunday?

Originally Posted by sore_bluto

The glitches during a program are seeming limited to Football on Sunday. However, there is a glitch every night at exactly 6PM and 7PM on WVUE. You'd think that the problem would have been identified and fixed by now.

Originally Posted by TiVoFishMan

Just a silly little note:

Our friend in this forum, Louis (tvengineer), was on the 9:00 PM FOX8 news last night, demonstrating how to hook up a digital converter box.

<--- [waves]

Originally Posted by TiVoFishMan

Just a silly little note:

Our friend in this forum, Louis (tvengineer), was on the 9:00 PM FOX8 news last night, demonstrating how to hook up a digital converter box.

<--- [waves]

Originally Posted by wtkflhn

Louis.

How long does the engeneering team working on the Analog transmitter think it will take to convert it to digital after the analog signoff next monday?

Thanks.

Don h.

Originally Posted by tvengineer

I think it is one week... sign off Monday... sign back on ch.8 Digital the following Monday.

Louis

Originally Posted by NOHDjunkie

So WVUE is going dark on analog VHF 8 and staying on UHF29 (digital) till you get the Analog transmitter switched to digital... then you're shutting down UHF29... correct?

Fingers crossed my CM4228 will pull in VHF 8. It gets WYES on 11 @ 100% signal strength.

Originally Posted by NOHDjunkie

Fingers crossed my CM4228 will pull in VHF 8. It gets WYES on 11 @ 100% signal strength.

Originally Posted by TiVoFishMan

WYES and WVUE actually share a tower site.

So, the signal you get on channel 8, when they switch their digital to 8, should be similar to what you get on WYES (VHF Digital channel 11). (I get in the high 90's to pegged at 100 on WYES-DT depending on the weather so I suspect I'm good.)

I get WVUE's main channel from DirecTV, but we watch 8-2, the 24 hour news channel, a lot, and my wife is such a fan of the Beverly Hillbillies, she's actually set a series link ("Season Pass" in TiVo parlance) to record it from 8-2 on the HR20 DVR!

It's highly unlikely DirecTV will ever add 8-2.

Originally Posted by NOHDjunkie

Right, but my antenna is a CM 4228 which is a UHF antenna... although it picks up high VHF pretty well VHF 8 will be wait and see.

Originally Posted by james_k_p

Hey Guys, I'm coming in late here so now I'm a tad bit confused.

So when fox goes digital-only early...I'll need to rescan as the digital fox will be on a different spot on my atsc tuner? And which Monday is this happening?

Originally Posted by TiVoFishMan

According to Louis' posts above:

• Monday Dec. 15. FOX8 Analog shuts off. If you're receiving FOX8 DT on your digital (ATSC) TV currently, you're not affected yet.
• Monday Dec. 22. The pre-transition FOX8 DT, on channel 29 shuts down and FOX8 DT on channel 8 kicks in. When this happens, you'll have to do a rescan to pick up the new channel.

The reason the "Dec. 15" date has the heavy emphasis on the air is because that's the date that the analog goes dark, and the folks with the analog TV's with rabbit ears will lose FOX8, as they know it, on that date, if they haven't bought a converter box yet.

Originally Posted by dennispap

Well that means starting on dec 15th, we will constantly see
"starting dec22 you need to rescan your tv's ,converter boxes etc."
As much as they harp the 15th shutoff, they better due this also or on the 22nd they will get nonstop phonecalls saying "my channel 8 is gone".

Originally Posted by james_k_p

Thanks for the clarity. I'll be ready for a rescan on Dec 22nd then.

Besides it moving to be moving in a location they want it in, will there be any other benefits? Better picture quality due to more bandwidth or anything?

Originally Posted by tvengineer

Exactly !

Louis