Nashville, TN - OTA - Page 52

Have you noticed that WSMV has the capability to produce some local HD content?

For the past couple of days the info line and crawl across the bottom of the screen have been in full 16:9 format extending across the entire screen not cropped for 4:3 as in the past.

It all depends on what you have to put up to get the channels NOW and what you will need to get the channels after they move.

For example, I have one UHF antenna pointed toward 5/17/30 and another UHF antenna pointed toward 2/8 and a single band Yagi cut for 10 pointed toward 4. Once they move, I will likely have to have a VHF antenna to point toward 5 and another VHF antenna to point toward 8 - perhaps in addition to what I have now.

VHF antennas would have to be much larger for the same gain, but perhaps atmospheric conditions will make this not needed. We will all just have to wait and see.

All I was trying to say is don't go nuts spending a bunch of money to get channels that will be moving in a year .

If you get a TV or Tivo with a QAM tuner then you can get the Comcast lifeline cable for $12 per month or less and get all the locals in HD with no antenna worries.....

Dennis

Possibly...hard to say until you actually install it. Since you're not pointing directly at they, you might end up ok.

I think they've been able to do this for some time. It's been a while since they started shown weather graphics over prime time programming. And I've seen that HD crawl during the Today show for months.

It has been reported that Channel 5 will actually go back to 5 next year. Is there any information on the other Nashville channels, for instance will Channel 4 change from channel 10 back to 4?

Channel 5 will indeed move their digital signal to VHF channel 5. That was the final decision they submitted to the FCC. No other Nashville stations opted to move their digital channel. So, Channel 4, digital 10, will stay digital 10 but will probably map to 4 as it does now.

Anyone else have black screen on 8-1 ?

Has anyone noticed that Channel 5's HD sginal is gone? I lost if a few days ago and it has not come back? All the rest of the HD signals from the other stations are fine. I did recently upgrade to a Vista Medica Center PC but it was working great for several weeks, I even had to remove my antenna amp that I use to need with my Motorola HD100 reciver that died some time ago.

I was told this by channel 5 over a year ago as well. They told me it was the FCC that was making them move, but I thought that was part of the reason the FCC wanted all stations to go digital was to free up the VHF band for other uses besides TV signals?
I do think them miving to a VHF freq is a bad idea, I personally only have a small UHF antenna mounted in my attic that has no problem pulling in channel 10 (4 -WSMV) but if I loose Channel 5 to VFH I doubt I will invest in an antenna for just one channel.

I am still receiving 5-1 and 8-1 this evening. I just checked and I am receiving all 22 Nashville digital channels.

After next February, all of the spectrum above channel 52 will be used for things other than television. So anyone currently up in that range of channels (like WTVF-DT Nashville, and WHNT-DT Huntsville) will have to move to a lower channel.

WNPT-DT Nashville is also moving from 46 to 8, BTW.

It would be so much easier if they would all stay in the UHF, I agree.

I hate to be blunt, but as long as I can pick up WHNT-DT for my CBS needs, I'm not likely to worry about a VHF for WTVF. And WHIQ in Huntsville beats WNPT hands down.

I am also unable to receive 8-1. I missed several TiVo recordings because of this. I do get 5-1. (I'm in the Hillsboro-West End area.)

Yep no Channel 8 here either....

Weird because I still have only black screen on 8-1 today. My Tivo reports though that it is locked on, and the antenna signal strength is 99 peaking at 100. So I'm receiving it fine, just getting a black screen though.

Are the other people not getting it here also using Tivo by any chance?

I haven't had any problems with 5-1.

I have the same symptoms. On 8-1, my TiVo HD antenna connection shows a signal strength of 77, but I just get a gray screen. I receive cable channel 8 fine. I suspect that it's not the TiVo, but that WNPT digital OTA is just not active. If it persists for another day or so, I'll switch the TiVo antenna connection to the TV to see if it will tune 8-1.

I just read these posts today I haven't really noticed channel 8.

I just checked it on all my receivers My panasonic intermittently was only showing 8-2 then 8-1 came back on too. Now it only shows 8-2

My magnavox is not showing anything from channel 8

My hisense db-2010 is showing 8-1 and 8-2 just fine. They may be screwing around with psip data who knows

You'd figure the hisense would be losing the signal not the newer tuners.....

Thanks for the feedback, I'll have to try to figure out what the heck is wrong with my MCE HD tuner then and why 5 is gone.... I am getting no signal which is strange since nothig has changed here, antenna is in the attic so I'm pretty sure it has not moved....

I get 5 bars on Channel 8 but no picture or sound.

Guys, my buddy lives down in Nashville. Well, he's got cancer so he's kind of going back and forth from L.A. to Nashville but he just recently got a HDTV and he has Comcast cable.

I told him that I knew Comcast was going to be offering TiVo software but didn't know if it was available in his area. So the install tech comes out and my friend says he wants a box that has TiVo. The guy says no problem, it will cost you 49.00 a month extra. My friend says no and the tech says OK, I'll let you have it for 9.95 for the first 6 months.

So he installs this DCT3416I and takes off. Two days later my buddy calls me and says he doesn't see anything that looks like TiVo. Well, really he doesn't know what TiVo looks like but he describes what he's got and it sure as hell doesn't sound like TiVo to me. Plus his guide data goes out only two days. No easy search features like TiVo. Matter of fact this thing sounded like a real pos, like most cable DVR's. Tech says it has 8 hours HD recording time.

Now either this tech is just plain stupid as hell or he didn't make sure the proper software was installed. Some people have said that TiVo software isn't available in Nashville area on Comcast so that's why I'm here. If it isn't available what's up with the price quotes? And how come after two days this thing only has like 48 hours of data on it?

Can one of you guys give me the scoop on this?

Comcast has rolled out TIVO only in certain New England markets. There is no announced timeframe for Nashville or anywhere else.
The DVR can record more than 8 hours of HD programming. Mine uses about 5/6% of it's capicity for each hour of HD. It can vary.
It uses 1-3% per hour of SD programming. (At least that's my experience)

In my post from 2 months back http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0#post12681070 I pointed out that the DTV channels will end at 51, since "channel 5's" temp channel is 56 then no way could they stay - and they knew this from the start. I guess rather than having to tune up and buy equipment for a third frequency they opted to just move back to VHF 5. Face it, only a very small portion of the viewing public actually watches OTA - everyone else has cable or sat or both.

22 in Cookeville and channels 8 and 5 are the only ones in this area not staying on their temp DTV channels. I watch a lot on WNPT so I will probably end up having to have a VHH antenna pointed at 8 and another pointed at 5 - I have two UHF antennas up now (one aimed at 2/8 and the other at 17/30/5) plus a channel 10 (4) VHF antenna. A veritable antenna farm is what I may end up with .

Dennis

So let me ask a question, how do you connect mutilpe antenas? Do you just run the leads into a splitter and then 1 lead to your tuner or is it more compilicated than that?
I guess I have been lucky, I have just 1 UHF antenna pointed basically north and I get (or was at least until 5 dropped off) all the Nashville Stations. I am considering pointing an antenna south to see if I can get NBC from Alabama.

Anybody else lost DTV 46? My signal meter shows the signal normal but still no signal. I'm less than 10 miles from the tower, this happened in just the last few days.Email to Wnpt , nothing has changed on their side. Thanks

I now receive 8-1 again.

All my receivers are picking up 8-1 and 8-2 now cause of previous reception problem unknown

two antennas can be combined just try a splitter in reverse make sure the cabling tieing the two antennas together are the same length try googling combined antennas you'll find information on it out there...I am using a large ratshack uhf/vhf antenna combined with a ratshack uhf antenna both antennas being fed to my cm 7777. The uhf/vhf is pointed toward Nashville and uhf is pointed toward Huntsville. I receive Nashville digital 2,4,5,8,28,30,50 and 58 fine 17 not so good 39 sometimes - from Huntsville I receive digital 15,19,25,54,48,31 It works fairly well it's worth trying......

Like simintn said, just hook up a splitter backwards and you have a combiner . I too have a CM7777 mast mounted amp - I chose that model because it can be used with a combined UHF/VHF antenna or slide a switch it can be used with separate VHF and UHF antennas (the mode I use it in now). So I have two UHF antennas combined feeding the UHF side and a channel 10 VHF feeding the VHF side and a single coax run from the amp into the amp's power supply inside the house.

Dennis

Over the weekend WNPT-DT had some issue where they stopped sending a PAT (program association table) in their stream. The video was actually there, but some receivers wouldn't locate the video/audio PIDs without it. (my Sharp ATSC receiver at home would receive it, but the decoders here would not). (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream)

I called WNPT a couple of times, but never received an answer.

Also worth noting is that WZTV & WUXP dropped their SD programming off of their digital stream Monday morning. After speaking to them, they said it was going to be a permanent change.

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Tim

I wouldn't fool with it. They are broadcasting with one of the lowest-powered signals in Huntsville - 41 kW. Many people within their service contour can't pick them up - much less Spring Hill.

One of the engineers there emailed me that they were considering boosting the signal after the switchover, but at present they are broadcasting at their maximum licensed levels.

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Dennis