Baton Rouge, LA - HDTV - Page 48

I think they fixed it. I didn't notice it on my recording of last week's Heroes ep.

How did you do it? Call up DIRECTV and tell them you moved? Do you still get Baton Rouge locals or are you just using your antenna to pick those up?

Use the antenna to get your BR stuff. Luckily we live in an area where OTA is easy for us.

Here's a thread for some good reading. There's an excellent script about an HOA campground towards the end:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-hd-...lp-moving.html

Anyone been having dropouts with channel 2? For the past few days it drops out for a second or 2 , then comes back in. I am going thru the Dish network vip211 box. I removed the 3 channel 2's from the box and then rescanned them back in, but still the dropouts.Even reset the whole box, no luck. During the music awards last nite it probably dropped out about 6-8 times in 3 hours. Actually it seems to drop out more on 2.1 then the 2 subchannels on 2.
Anyone one else with this issue or is it just me?
Thanks for the help.

We haven't noticed anything here.

I did some comparing today of WAFB CBS Baton Rouge and WWL CBS New Orleans during the HD football games today. What a disgrace WAFB is! I really thought it would have been better since they shut TheTube off. Fat chance. WAFB was running between 11.5-12.5 megabits. WWL was consistently running 17+ megabits! Now that's some good HD! Nice job WWL, you're doing a better job delivering the LSU games than the LSU hometown WAFB is.

I'm not just going by numbers here either. There's a night and day difference between the two when switching back and forth.

Maybe we can get the HD CBS fans in Baton Rouge to band together and get this corrected by next year's season. Anyone in for starting a website to speak out against WAFB's poor HD? I'll host it...we just have to think of a catchy name.

We provide Appalling quality FootBall in HD
We Are Falling Behind in HD

I'm in. I've written to WAFB a few times and they claim they are maximizing the bandwidth to the main channel. Sure doesn't seem like it to me. I too noticed the difference between WWL and WAFB during the game. It's a disgrace

" I've written to WAFB a few times and they claim they are maximizing the bandwidth to the main channel."


We're
Actually
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Just looking to put something up like this older website : www.stophdlite.com

Short and sweet and to the point.

I'm not sure of the legality of things but I don't think we could use WAFB in the name of the website. StopWAFBLite would be out of the question eh?

I'm on board. I have crappy divx movies that look much better than WAFB's LSU broadcasts.

I have no idea of the legalities either. However, a case could be made that the call letters, WAFB, are assigned by the FCC, a governmental agency, and are, therefore, inherently public "domain"? The public owns the airwaves and charters the FCC to manage them, correct? Of course, the webhost might want to look a little deeper than my rantings.

If not, something like Stopbrhdlite
also StopliteWeaksignalbrhdlite

We
Are
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Broadcasters

I think one of the reasons why WAFB has been slow to correct the situation is that at some point someone at the station would have to admit to making a mistake or bad business decision.

I'm afraid that WAFB only qualifies as the second worst destruction of network HD programming in Louisiana. 5.2 KALB Alexandria picked up CBS this past January and "shares" the HD with 5.1 NBC. What's ugly is during a ball game when the NBC peacock logo that doesn't move goes blurry when the network flashes graphics, same thing for CBS.

Hey guys... I've been sifting thru this board for a while and appreciate all the info. I want to ask a few questions...

1) does anyone have a date on the Baton Rouge HD locals for DirecTv?

I couldn't find anything recent in this thread and the last I heard was an email from Dale Russell that we should have them by the end of the year (back in August I think). An 'install guy' told my Uncle this past weekend that we should have them by January. And of course I can't get any info from DTV.

2) What is the best off air antenna for my house?

I live in Capital Heights (right by Superior Grill) and want something that I can put in my attic. Also, it would be nice to find a place locally to buy it so I can have it for this weekend. Otherwise I may be 'moving' like some of you to NOLA.

I've been extremely happy with my Wineguard Silver Sensor. I live out in Prairieville and get all BR stations perfectly. I do have the amplified version of the Silver Sensor though. Not sure if you can buy this locally though.

The silver sensor will probably do just fine for that area. You'll want to move anyways to NO after seeing WAFB's garbage. Not to mention 2 HD locals are better than one.

Checked out the WAFB-HD quality for the LSU game. Hang it up WAFB... crap once again. The other CBS affiliates can get it right but you can't. The big group of us here won't be watching your HD signal today.

Such a shame that the local CBS affiliate of LSU is delivering this garbage to the folks in Baton Rouge. As many of us have complained and complained over and over, yet they don't change it. Shows you they really care eh?

Thanks for the advice. I went ahead and moved. Everyone at the house was asking why I had nola commercials during the game!!

Most of the other locals will be about the same quality... but the huge difference is CBS. Enjoy!

That's the truth. Also part of their reluctance to change is that they put themselves in the position of having to remove something they've promoted and want to have.

If a station could actually broadcast 2 SD channels with no impact on HD, then 4WWL would have a news rebroadcast on one and weather info on the other.

There are ways that 9WAFB could save face: They could say that in the past few years leading up to the DTV transition they've heard their viewers preferences for HD and to provide maximum PQ for CBS HD they will change their SD blah, blah, blah, etc.......

I did talk to some engineers some time back that told me that WAFB is going to wait until on or about 2/17/09 before completing the final work on the tower that would go from side mounted antennas to top mounted. Several stations got FCC approval for that. That should improve coverage areas of signals.

I have an HD TV (in an upstairs bedroom) which catches all of the BR channels, plus the New Orleans channels and even Mojo, OTA without any antenna at all. It is simply plugged in regular cable (expanded basic with no digital or HD service). I catch the OTA channels when I select "antenna" rather than "cable".

My other HD TV (downstairs) does not have antenna and is plugged into cable with full HD and digital service. I cannot catch any OTA signals on this TV when I select "antenna".

Why am I able to catch all of those stations on the upstairs tv without an antenna attached? Why can't I catch any of them downstairs without an antenna attached?

Last time I looked they are staying with the top mounted 46kw rig on their downtown tower. Once analog 9 is shut off they will pull RF 46 off the air and put the digital on RF 9. If I remember right it something like 0.2kw at around 500 meters. Not much of a difference there in coverage area. Lots of folks with those UHF only rigs will be stuck, but you shouldn't have much of those since WBRZ is on 13.

You are catching QAM channels via cable. The set probably has a slot for cable card right? Does the downstairs set have a slot for a digital cable card? If so, it's just a matter of hitting scan and finding the QAM channels.

Actually, neither TV has cable card. My upstairs TV connects straight to the wall with a coaxial cable. My downstairs TV is connected via HDMI to a Cox DVR box.

Not cable card...cable card slot. Your TV has a digital tuner picking up non-encrypted digital streams on the cable system.

Neither TV has a cable card slot either.

Are the NO locals you are talking about in the 120's?

Yes, I think so. The Cox cable channels go up through the 60s and the other channels all start in the 90s (or so) and go up through the 120s.

Am I only receiving these other channels because the TV is connected to Cox cable? If so, then why can't I receive these same channels on my downstairs TV with has the full Cox HD and digital package?

What you need to do is get a splitter and run one end into the back of your cox HD box and run the other end directly into the tv and use your tv's tuner to pick up the stations