Richmond, VA - HDTV - Page 14

I haven't had audio dropouts on WRIC-HD through Comcast in ... at least a couple weeks now if not longer.

Thank you!

We've noticed a couple video drops in network over the weekend (Audio is fine). Can you guys let me know if you see anything like this? I know some of you have. I need to know what programs are doing it to see if it's network or local. I think it's a network issue. BTW, I watched a fair amount of Nascar yesterday and didn't see this problem. It looked pretty good for SD upconverted. We did see this problem in American Dreams last night.

MPark,

I have noticed quite a few problems with "network programming" from NBC of late. I never thought it was a local problem (as others were complaining nationwide about it).

Of note:

American Dreams from 26 Sep - bad clicking sound throughout program
Crossing Jordan from 26 Sep (WWBT finally switched to upconverting analog due to picture and sound issues)
Las Vegas (I don't think there were any problems with this one) from 27Sep
Medical Investigations (video kept dropping out - 4-6 times during program) from 1 Oct

The only other NBC program we watched this week was the Apprentice, but I was watching the DirecTV feed (don't like the 14:9 stretch )

With this many network problems I have to wonder if this is NBC's first year of HD (which I know it isn't).

I haven't watched AD or CJ from 3 Oct yet, but I can let you know what I see.

Rod319

we have audio from 35-1. I am now getting audio on both 35-1 and 35-2. Maybe they are getting ready for HD soon!!

Feedback on WUPV-DT (UPN) Requested:

A quick break from aspect ratios and FOX, but I am really trying to get reception from UPN at my Chesterfield house in the Monacan/Midlothian area. I have practically gone through the entire Radio Shack UHF antenna line, with great signal strength on all channels except UPN... where I get a consistent 0. I would expect to get a least something with an 80" UHF Boom antenna. Can anyone confirm that UPN is receivable with a HDTiVo on Southside? I would be curious to know which antenna you are using as well. Thanks in advance.

The only person that I have seen post about receiving WUPN-DT was in Fredricksburg. Try 50 out of Hampton. I can get then on a good night with a indoor antenna. Tonight seems to be a good night but it is iffy.

I hav read WUPN-DT is low power and not much hight

I live in Midlo and get zilch, zip, nada on UPN with my Winegard UHF "long range/fringe" antenna (it is in the attic though). No problem with all other stations.

Yep, I am getting WUPV-DT up here in Fredericksburg tonight. This is not an everyday event. However, I do get it quite often in the evenings. Tonight is a great night for DXing. I am currently picking up Richmond, D.C., Baltimore, Charlottesville and Hampton Roads stations.

WUPV is broadcasting at an extremely low power and their antenna is currently very low (~65 m). Hopefully, sometime in the future they will raise both the height and the power.

I too am receiving WUPV-DT this evening, which is a rare occurrence.

MPark,

I sat down to watch Las Vegas live tonight and within 4 minutes my wife said she couldn't put up with the breakups. We switched over to Charlottesville's 29 and had no issues. Just to test further, at 9:15 pm I started recording WWBTDT12 and continued watching 29-1. After the program ended, I rewatched the recording of 12-1 and it had many problems that I had not seen on 29-1, with 12-1 eventually switching out of the HD feed (I am sure that you know all of this by now).

Trying to help.

Rod319

I live in Glen Allen on Mountain Road and have always been able to get WUPN between 80-85%, but antennaweb says I am only about 4 miles from the antenna. I do get all of the others here as well though, I am using a Winegard Square Shooter with a Radio Shack pre-amp...both in the attic.

Michael P, WWBT is a mess tonight.....unwatchable in HD. Las Vegas as well as The Tonight Show had audio/video breakups, random patches of pixelation, and blackouts that last a couple seconds. Also the weird "tile" effect on bottom half of screen. The tile effect is similar to what you would see on a standard computer wallpaper scheme. Something is definitely wrong! You guys used to be rock solid 99% of the time. All of this was visible with a 100% signal strength with no dropout while these things were happening. At the same time I have to say, the NASCAR up-conversion Sunday was flawless in 16:9 and I enjoyed that a lot! Your HD broadcasts are a different story though. Seems to me that something happened to your HD broadcasts after the last Hurricane (with high winds) blew through here. That may be coincidence though, because I can't say for sure that's when things went bad. Close though.

WRIC is solid...thank you Darrell

WTVR is back with the usual "No Signal" message on my Samsung for a few seconds before getting a picture. NOTE TO SAMSUNG OTA BOX OWNERS: If you "ever" get 25-1 back DO NOT do a rescan!!!

Not bitchin' here folks...just trying to help.

First of all, thanks for the feedback. We were all over it tonight and were trying different things. The beginning of Las Vegas being the worst.
We think we have a bad NBC HD Receiver. Hopefully, we will get it fixed by tomorrow. Have to get a new one shipped in. I'll keep you posted.

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I assume you didn't care for the advice.

My TV is like yours in that regard. Some people with 16:9 screens aren't aware you can set the STB to 4:3 and adjust from there to fill the screen because it seems kind of illogical. Being as you are fairly new to the HDTV world I thought you might be unaware of that. Just trying to help.

I'm happy with the way I do it. I don't have to change any menus and it looks good. Thanks for the advice.

Ain't that the truth. I got lucky once and I will never rescan again. I manually added 35-1 and 35-2. My Sammy (now that it has locked in WTVR) never has the "no signal" it locks in WTVR just as fast as any of the other Richmond stations.

WWBT 12-1 will be in upconvert tonight and hopefully will be back in HD tomorrow night. I'll keep you guys updated.

This is one of the things I like about the DirecTV HD TiVo box. When you rescan, it will not delete ANY channels previously stored. It'll either say "So and so channels have been added..." or "No additional channels were found..." It does give you an option to delete scanned channels...

I have the Hughes Directv HD Box and it automatically finds new channels when you are flipping. It found 35-2 on it's own.

WTVR - DT is FIXED!! For me at least. I was not able to get it before even though it found it at 85+% without doing some funny configurations. I did a scan this evening for the heck of it and now it shows up as "6 - WTVR-DT" instead of 25-1. It looks like they are broadcasting the correct PSIP data stream now. Would someone with a Samsung OTA STB be willing to rick a scan to see if it works for you

After not checking for a couple of days I just noticed that I am now getting the signal from WTVR on my Samsung TS160. I didn't need to do a rescan...the picture just showed up. I never got a response from from my e-mail to Don Cox a few weeks ago but at least they fixed the problem.

That is a much more elegant way to do things. I wish my Samsung would do that. On the other hand, mine is the T150 which was one of the first STBs released. I bought it cheap off of Ebay so no compliants.

I did a scan and the Sammy 360 found 6.1! Ironic that today is the day I mount my antenna on top of my roof.

Mits, Sony and VOOM tuners all picked-up 6-1 early this am.

This is terriffic news for us OTA people experiencing problems. Now maybe I can get a Sunday afternoon football game in HD!
Speaking of HD sports - now we can turn our attention to Fox. Any word on whether they will be up in time for Sunday's action?

What antenna configuration are you using brcobb?



The FCC says they are transmitting at 1000 kW 244 meters off the ground (http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=WUPV)... although this is obviously not the case. Does anyone have a contact at WUPV?