Phoenix, AZ - HDTV - Page 13

Just watched Las Vegas on HD TIVO. Recording was very choppy. Watched some live TV and it was choppy too. Signal strength is >70%. This is not happening on any other channel. Is anyone else getting a choppy signal from NBC 12.1?

Nevermind. I watched the signal over a longer period of time. Turns out that my signal is dropping out. Had to adjust antenna.

I am relocating to Phoenix along with my Channel Master 4221. How is the ota reception in the 4500 block of N 24th, just north of E Indian School Road?

Thanks.

Art, give www.antennaweb.org a try. That is a good starting point.

Today's Diamondbacks game is being shown on ESPN2-HD. Because Cox doesn't carry ESPN2-HD does anyone know if they are going to show it on 722, or another HD channel like they have with Suns games?

ESPN-2HD owns the rights to todays Diamondbacks game. Here are some links to the HD schedules for ESPN-HD/ESPN-2HD and FSN-HD. Note that all FSN-AZ HD games will be carried on 722.

Links:

ESPN-HD/ESPN2HD:
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tvl...s/espnhd/index

FSN-HD:
http://msn.foxsports.com/name/HD

Does anyone know if Cox has any plans to carry ESPN2HD?

I think it would have to show up on Directv before Cox sign a deal for ESPN2HD. Adelphia is the only cable company with a deal in place right now and they are taking their time rolling it out

Haven't posted in a while.

But I have noticed marked improvements for all OTA HD Channels in the Phoenix area.

ABC lost was just fine last night, with the exception of some 'green blocks', but the sound was fine. Where previously, there were so many break ups in the sound that it was unwatchable in HD.

FOX has been fine.

CBS and the NCAA Trouney was exceptional as far as reception is concerned.
Some minor compression issues, at least with my eyes, graininess, but that's about it.

The Local OTA HD channels have really improved over the last couple of months, thanks Local OTA HD Channels!

Now, if I could only get Battlestar Galactica in HD I'd be very very happy!

(this is with DirectTV equipment, and shoot, I forgot what type of HD Reciever I own)

Looking forward this month to Modest Mouse, Austin City Limits in HD.
Check out this band if you can, they are pretty darn good.

It was good to watch 3 hrs of hd last night on ABC, but does anyone know what Eyes on ABC went to SD for the last 2 minutes of the show? I'm guessing that it's a local station issue.

It's coming to Universal-HD, channel 74 on DirecTV. Here is a link to the schedule of episodes:

http://www.universalhd.com/Schedule/...ar&start=today

THANK YOU SOUNDMASTER!!!!

From what I understand it was filmed in HD as well. Could be wrong about that, but this should be good!!!

Thanks again!

Enjoy!

Did channel 15 stop sending programming info the last couple of days?

I'm not getting any guide info for channel 15, so I'm trying to determine if it's just me.

I am receiving the guide info. Just checked, just for you.

Sorry,

Rich

I hadn't either the last few days - haven't checked today.

Watched the Masters Yesterday, except for a Camera with a Bad Pixel and some other cameras with grain issues, I thought some of the shots were outstanding for HD.

Really gorgeous shots of Bridges, and Streams and Trees, real treat for the eyes. (luckily I am into sports so I get bonus HD coverage!)

NASCAR, didn't watch too much, but the HD looked pretty good on FOX.

ESPNHD, My white sox were on, HD again.

Now, Battlstar Galactica. HD quailty was passable, but not that good. I must have been wrong about them shooting in HD, Digital perhaps, but it didn't seem like HD in the slightest. While the PQ was decent, as opposed to watching it on SciFi in SD, nothing popped out too much. Still love the show and will watch all of them again in HD.


Very busy day of HD viewing, lots of couch sitting!

I cross posted this on the Arizona HD forum and I know that a few read both but I'm curious to know if anyone can give me an answer on this...

With the pending Doom of Voom I picked up 3 SA8300HD units from the Chandler Cox office and was going to run Voom until April 30th, however. I opted to end Voom early. I re-worked my system today and hooked up 2 of the 3 8300's and only left 1 Voom box live to view it until the end.

Now this is where it gets interesting and I need the help of someone on this group that may be in the know.

I have 2 sets (3 cables each) of RG6 running component to my projector, set 1 is setup directly to the DVD player, set 2 is running through my Yamaha Receiver which switches the XBox in HD via component and the Voom (now 8300HD) so far...

When the Voom was hooked up this way, video was perfect, when I connected the 8300 in place of the Voom, the video was over driven, out of color and made me think that I killed one of my Monster component cables when I changed the equipment or worse the input to my AMP.

In the end I found that if I ran the 8300 directly to the projector it worked fine, but when running through my amp no joy. I re-worked all the connections, passthru's and remote programming and it's working most excellent now but I'm curiuos to know if anyone has a clue as to why the 8300 would not work via the AMP... really odd.

Any ideas?

Miguel

Anyone else having quite a few problems with ABC 15 OTA HD lately? I've noticed a few times that the sound has either gone out completely or has been badly distorted. During Alias this week I couldn't watch it because the sound was badly distorted.

No problems here, and it everything seemed fine during Alias.

Regards,

Rich

No haven't noticed. Alias was fine when I watched it OTA. I do notice that the sound goes out during commericals as they're getting ready to go back to a show. This has been a problem on ABC 15 since I've been watching, which has been Sept of 04.

Hmm, must be my receiver then. I don't have problems with any stations other than ABC, and it's signal is just as strong as the rest. Oh well - thanks for the replies.

Component baseband video running through RG-6?

you betcha, excellent quality with almost no loss, pop an RCA M from F M adapter on the end of the coax and plug it in.

my projector is fed by 7 lines that run up the wall, across the roof and then back down to the projector, running DVI is impossible since it's a good 50' run and a DVI cable for that run would have to be a DVI Fiber cable and last check had it at well over 800 dollars and remember I need 2!

I think that you'll find Rg6 is the preferred method with most high end installers, this method is also the way that I have my sub wired to the amp, again a couple of RCA adapters on each and and BOOM!

miguel

Let's hope everything goes as planned.