Knoxville, TN - HDTV - Page 12

Where exactly is the yellow line? If it's inside the pillarbox on a 4:3 image that would be the station. If it's along the outer margin of the screen then is could mean your TV has relatively low overscan. Most folks actually consider this a good thing as you see more of the image but it can be a little aggravating if artifacts show up from time to time at the image margin.

Some TV's allow you to adjust overscan and image position.

I have calibrated my TV using Avia. But the line is exclusive to WBIR.


The vertical line is at the extreme left. It's only present in HD content, i.e. it's not there on 4:3 shows. My TV doesn't have adjustments for overscan or image position. The line is very thin and it doesn't really bother me that much. But I'm at the end of my 30-day return period for my TV and I'm trying to decide if it's related to just my TV, which from the responses I got it appears to be just me.

It sounds like you need to adjust overscan or image position slightly. What is your TV? Many have service menu adjustments for this.

Since you're at the end of your 30 day period..... after which there's no going back..... why not take the TV back to the store, show the proprietor what the probelm is, and see if they have a solution. Perhaps you can try a different TV or get them to extend your existing grace period.

My TV is a Westinghouse LTV-32w6 32" LCD. I haven't been able to find a way to reach the service menu. I found the code for the 40" Westy (if I remember correctly), but it doesn't work on the 32".

I probably should take it back to where I got it and see what they say. I guess I can't expect too much from a TV in this price range.

That's probably the safest thing to do. I can never understand why TV manufacturers omit size/position controls on a digital TV. I guess they think we're too stupid to use them.

Charter has TNT in HDTV in Farragut now channel 772.

Are folks on here aware of D*TV's free High Def DVR offer?I just got mine installed last week.If you are a previous NFL Sunday Ticket customer....read these threads(links) and call the CRG(customer retention group).This is for real!I have nothing to do with the company other than being a customer.Just a heads-up for a great deal (free!) on an HR10-250.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=686376

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=303111

I think if you have Charter, that the Moxi DVR is the way to go. I was a fan of Satelite, but now I love cable because of the Moxi decoder.

I just looked at Moxi.It only records 11 hours of HD.The HR10-250 will do 35+ hours of HD and 200 hours of SD(OTA and/or satellite....on any combination of 2 tuners).Features look very comparable otherwise.

The Moxi has two USB 2.0 ports which are supposed to be enabled this year to allow external hard drives. Regardless, the menus are cool, the picture quality is better than the plain motorola box etc. The moxi is just really cool all around. They send software updates to add new features, games, etc periodically.

There is no comparison between this hardware and anything else I've seen.

Anybody here using a cablecard thru Comcast? If so, besides basic channels, are you getting many HD stations? I currently use an OTA antenna w/ inconsistent results due to trees & other restrictions.

Thanks in advance for any & all input.

not to take the thread off course but who's QB for the Vols this year? And whatever happened to Randy Sanders?

Randy Sanders got fired. David Cutcliff is back to coach offense. Ainge is back but he has a competition. a guy who's name I can't recall. I hope the ther guy has some tallent. He's said to. I don't have much faith in Ainge. Ainge looks the opposite of head-y and never seems to improve judgement-wise. He's made more really dumb, intercepted, passes than any UT quarterback I can recall. Ainge looks like a back-up QB to me. I'm rootin' for the other guy!!!

Does anyone know what the new UTTV channel on Comcast cable is? It does not show anything yet, but it is going to be around channel 190.

I dunno... are we thinking University of Tennessee Television?

Does anyone else have trouble with 8-1 (I'm getting my HD OTA). I live around the Walker Springs area of town, and can pick up all the local HD channels just fine execpt for WVLT. Anyone found a way to pick this channel up, with football season just starting....this channel is a must. I'm wondering if picking up a stronger antenna will help any. I have to use an indoor antenna......outside is not an option.

It's definitely the weakest of the "big 4" by far up here, but I'm able to get a consistent drop free signal most of the time. A larger antenna or going outside with it is almost always better.

To confirm what cpcat said... The channel 8 frequency here in Knoxville has always been problematic on analog and the station seems to be continuing the tradition in the digital conversion even though the frequency isn't in the same ballpark.

Right now I'm just using the basic antenna.....if i get one that has 45db or 50db do you think that would help?

For an indoor option most go with some variation on a bowtie such as this

or small yagi such as this

It probably doesn't need to be amplified either way.

Most likely either will also provide enough gain for WMAK channel 7 even though they are both primarily UHF antennas. WMAK will be somewhat weaker on the north side of Knoxville though.

WMAK isnt a problem at all, WVLT is the problem, I cant get it at all,

The point was that even though the antennas I suggested are designed for UHF (WVLT is uhf 30) they will likely still have enough vhf gain for WMAK which is vhf 7.

What antenna are you using currently?

I can confirm this. I'm about a mile north of Sharp's Ridge and can see the towers out the window... WMAK comes in at between 40% and 65%. WVLT is around 80%. All other Sharps Ridge stations are in the upper 90% for me.

There's a known problem with ch8's UHF DTV antenna. They are aware of the problem and there have been some attempts at repair. As for ch8 NTSC, they have a directional pattern by design.

After the end of NTSC, now February 2009 if no reprieve, ch10 DTV will move from UHF to VHF. So in this area it might be worthwhile to retain an all channel antenna although some "UHF only" antennas perform fairly well for channels 7 through 13.

Excellent point. Although they (you) are doing great as far I can tell as it is now with UHF 31. I hope VHF 10 will do at least as well.

WCYB Bristol is absolutely excellent on UHF 28 (at least here) and yet they are moving to low band 5. Dunno 'bout that one.

Anyway, for indoor antennas at least, it should be relatively simple to add rabbit ears and a uhf/vhf diplexer if necessary for added vhf performance. Similarly, a smallish outdoor high band vhf antenna add-on should do the trick. At least Knoxville won't have any low band vhf.

Ok so not completely new. I lived in Knoxville for 6 years around the time of the Worlds fair, but I am getting off course here.

I am moving back to Knoxville in a couple of weeks and I wanted to check on the status of antenna setups.

I have a Winguard PR8800 and was wondering weather I should move it with me or just pick up a new setup considering the vhf channels.

Glad to be back in a world were I won't look weird in an Orange Jersey yelling at the TV in a bar.

Go Vols

Tom

Is there an estimated date when DTV will roll out Knoxville locals in HD?

I wish there was. All I know is not in the next 3 months.

I would guess sometime late in '07. Purely just a top-of-the-head guess!

I really don't care if the local news goes all HD anytime soon and don't expect 'em to. I wish they would atleast go 16 x 9 480i pronto. I'm tired of side-bars. Surely it's somebody else's turn to watch bars in the other locale at this point...? Another thing, I'm sick of locals dropping down to SD to run station ID or weather alerts.

I hope channel 8 makes remarkable strides before the TN versus FL game. I popped on one of their HD preseason NFL games and it looked WAY worse than any of the poor presentations we got on CBS college games last year. Besides the usual macroblocking on moving objects, there was horrid pxelization episodes frequently, sometimes rather large.... Their sub-channel must be dragging them down worse than ever???