St. Louis, MO - HDTV - Page 37

can we go back to making fun of charter, directv or dish? or how crappy XXXX hd signal was back last night?

No dish install today, same problem as feb 1st.

Looks like another day off work actually getting stuff done around the house...

-Matt

Bummer. I had a D* install Feb. 1. They came, climbed up on my snow covered garage, and had it up and running before they left. Tell those wuss Dish guys to gitterdun.

Crap!!! I had no idea.

I watched the first hour last night & promptly deleted it from the Moxi. I'll have to check tonight. Hopefully, it was recoreded as two independent episodes. Does anyone know if that is the case?

Yes, it records them separately.

Scott

Hey so um....channel 11 ota sucks, huh?

Awesome.

I'm thinking it's about time that Jack sits down for a nice lunch, though. After, of course, Chloe does infrared scans of the area to find restaurants that are not busy.

Wouldn't you just love to be a fly on the wall at the Bauer family Thanksgiving dinner this year?

Personally, I think that next season, Jack should take on the Dixie Chicks.

My Moxi had it as one two hour episode. Started watching around 9:30pm watched all two hours without stopping.

this how it was on D*....

A truckload of off-topic posts has been sent into the Wide Open Spaces.

I think that was a Dixie Chicks tune...

My Charter Moxi had 24 as one two-hr block.

barry

I just moved from Kansas City back to St. Louis a while back. While in KC I had an antenna in the attic, it was kind of in the shape of an arrow with the metal tubes shooting off each side and then another section that attached to the end in the shape of a V that you were supposed to point in a certain direction. No problems, great HD reception. When I moved here to St. Louis, zip code 63021, I bought the same kind of antenna and put it in the attic with mediocre results. The antenna is not mounted and is lying across the rafters and the correct end is pointed to the east. ABC 30.1 hardly comes in at all, 4.1 and 5.1 are very sporadic during the day until around 7pm at night and it seems to get a little better. 11.1 hardly comes in as well as 11.2 and I cannot get 9.1 at all. Any suggestions? I was thinking about getting a Winegard SS-3000 Sharp Shooter 3000 Indoor UHF/VHF Antenna (SS3000) but wanted some feedback before I spent another 80.00 for an antenna.

Thanks,
Matt

Shopkepr,

For the St. Louis local HD stations, you need only a UHF antenna. I am in the 63021 area and my reception is good with the Radioshack U75(or something like that) for $25 it is a yagi antenna(the arrow side of your current antenna). Did you try pointing your arrow side almost due east and a little up? There are posts in this thread from DroptheRemote that outline everything basic you would need.

You could go to antennaweb.org and put in your address and it will give you a compass direction and a map to point your antenna.

Dug

Now I'm bumming. I need to start paying a little more attention, I guess.

Was hour 2 of last night's episode worth downloading from iTunes?

I would say yes. Personally, I can't stand missing an hour of 24, and since its only $1.99 and they are now watchable at 640x480, I would say go for it.

For those following the BluRay HD-DVD copy stories, weeeeeeee:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/13...hddvd_bro.html

I will try angling it a little more up and a little father east and see what happens. I will also look for DroptheRemote's posts. I have been to antennaweborg before and it looks like everything is to east south east. With the compass orientation, would you just find the middle of all them? just an fyi, i have the 50" Boom Length, 18 Element Antenna currently in my attic from radio shack, model number VU-75 XR Catalog #: 15-2151.


Thanks,
Matt

Has anyone had a look at the new D* package tiers? I'm trying to figure out whether it's cheaper for me to keep what I have or change to the new package structure. You do not have to switch to the new package system (I suppose that's so no one can claim they have an "out" from a commitment due to service changes).

Where were you before I was forced to read them?

At least now I know how Left Jeff got his name and it wasn't because he was a southpaw

We all expected this. Solution for the studios: make the product cheap enough to make copying a waste of time. They won't be able to keep the discs on the shelves.

Does any one if Dish has any plans to pick up FSN Midwest HD this year? For Cardinals games. The reason I ask is because there is a great deal that Dish has right now, and i am getting sick of Charter's rate hikes and dismal HD Lineup.

Dish Deal
http://www.dishretailer.com/dishstore/dishstore.htm

Thanks.

Sudhakar

If any of Jack family is still alive at the end of the season. I guess his daughter could always invite him. She ought to be grateful for all the times he's saved her...

To me it looks like the new packages are roughly $5 more per month for comparable programming. Right now, I have Total Choice Plus, DVR service, HD package, Starz and 2 additional receivers. It looks like that would be comparable to the new Plus HD With Locals Package which would be about $5 more a month than I am currently playing.

About the only thing my family watches on 11-1 is Gilmore Girls on Tuesday nights. I tune it through my D* HR20 receiver. The last 2 weeks the audio and video have been out of sych. Is anyone else having this issue? I haven't tried to connect the antenna directly to my tv to see if it's the HR20 or not.

The statement I got todays says our classic packages are increasing in price next month, by "up to $3," so the difference is going to be less I suppose. I'm just curious if the Plus HD package has the exact same channels I have now. I suppose it does, but I don't know for sure.

There is nothing, whatsoever, to indicate DISH has any plans for carriage of FSNMW-HD.

DISH has already uplinked all but 2 of the FSN HD RSN's, of which MW was not included.

That being said, negotiations are always on-going and always kept tight-lipped. If DISH has any intent for carriage of FSNMW-HD, it would seem to be more later, than sooner.

If it's a deal-breaker channel for you, I'd urge you to go with the provider(s) who already have carriage.

On a side note...between KSDK, ESPN, and FOX, you still should see 25-30 HD Cards games this season without FSNMW-HD. With FSNMW-HD, I'd expect an additional 20-25 HD productions, 4 of which DISH will spot on 9467 in HD.

If you go over to dbstalk.com to the General D* Discussion forum, I think there is more information on what the new packages contain. I do think some of the existing packages like Total Choice are losing some channels in the new package lineup.