Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD - HDTV - Page 259

Back in the mid 1990s, the NBC station in Raleigh used to plaster crap like that on the screen, self-promoting themselves. Link to contact the geniuses at WBAL:
http://www.wbaltv.com/station/index.html

Yes, Comcast. It did clear up. Playoffs were fine over the weekend. Thanks.

Why does MPT keep putting side bars on 16:9 programming? Are they trying to get large screens back down to 20"?

I have been curious what WETA is going to once they loose there analogue channel, since they are one of the few (only?) stations that broadcasts content on analogue that isn't rebroadcast on a digital channel, so I did a little googling and found the following

http://www.kued.org/uploads/pdfs/165...tvplan2008.pdf


WETA TELEVISION CHANNELS
Current
WETA TV 26
WETA HD
WETA Kids
WETA Create
WETA World

Post-Transition (TBD)
WETA TV
WETA HD
WETA Kids
WETA Create

So it looks like they are dropping world and moving the current WETA to a standard def subchannel and continuing their cop out of pulling the PBS HD feed rather than program their own HD channel.

Does anyone know if this is still accurate?

I also thought this was a little amusing since I didn't see it in person

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX0DCxTB-Fo
(the analogue shutoff test)

I sure hope that's not WETA's plan. If it is, that's pretty dull. Three kids shows on at once?

- Trip

Docisis 3.0 is now available on Comcast in Anne Arundel County MD, according to http://www.comcast.com/fastestfast/ (using my parents' zip code).

I'm pretty sure they're already doing that. 26.1 is WETA HD, .2 and .3 are WETA Kids and WETA Create, and 26.4 is WETA SD.

Also in my area. In fact although I have a Docsis 2.0 cable modem my upload and download speeds have more than doubled, and I have the standard Comcast service.

Yeah, I noticed that as well when I continued searching, but 26 and 26.4 don't quite match, for example eastenders is on 26 on a saturday morning and not on 26.4. The programming deviates from about Midnight till about 4pm. Very frustrating since 26 is the only analogue channel I am still forced to use.

WETA-DT is (and will be) transmiting on UHF channel 27. WHAG-DT needs UHF Channel 26 to be able to go full power.

ABC 7 news tonight is not in HD. What happened?

Before anyone says it, sorry for the big, annoying, bright bug in the bottom left corner on 45.2. The equipment to turn it on and off that I was expecting today, didn't come in. Consequently, I have to have an ID up all of the time...

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Neither is World News Tonight. They just told me they are having "lots of problems"
As of 6:55, WNT is back in HD. There is no ABC network programming tonight in HD.

You mean my home computer system, fed by a 10' C-Band dish is doing better than expensive commercial gear? Now that is funny.

Yes, I know, my computer system isn't trying to get the feed from the IRD to the DTV transmitter

Is that all ABC, or is it just WMAR-DT or WJLA-DT?

It happens ... just glad to have 45.2 back on the air, you were missed in at least one household. Is there anyplace that one could find scheduling info for this channel? Even the EIT/ETT stream is telling me just "ThisTV Programming".

Does anyone know what WETA is doing with UHF 51? I've asked them before many months ago, and they replied that "Channel 51 is allocated to WDCW until the transition" (duh), but there is still a "DR" filing on record with the FCC:

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?state...&slon2=&size=9

I haven't been able to find ANY information on this, and was hoping you folks could shed some light as to what this filing is about. My current post-transition DIY Yagi can't get 51, and the wife would hurt me if she misses out on any WETA programming.

Thanks!

The DR (Digital Reassignment or Reallocation or something like that) is still pending due to the conflicting filing from WWPX-DT.

Here's the WETA application: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/r...ent=6520031591

The conflicting WWPX application: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/r...ent=6520031565

I have no further information.

- Trip

51 WDCW-TV shutdown in early December 2007. It looked to me like it is supposed to come back as 51 WDCW-DT after the transition. So why is WETA-DT and WWPX-DT trying to gain access to the same frequency?

WDCW-DT remains on channel 51 until 02/17/09. The signal that shut down is W51CY in Chambersburg.

WETA-DT wants to get off of channel 27 because it is restrained from increasing power due to WFPT-DT 28 in Frederick.

WWPX-DT wants to relocate to the tower site of WINC-FM in order to rimshot DC (WWPX is up for sale) and cannot do that on channel 12 due to WWBT-12 in Richmond.

So they're both seeking channel 51. I personally hope that WETA-DT gets it.

- Trip

That's the transmitter I was referring to, but they also have authorization for a 15KW transmission as an LD.

I've been looking forward to having this transmitter come online, so that I could have a CW station that is LOS. I really got PO'ed when it went off the air two days before the season finallies of their programs. Wife's still PO'ed.

It has taken me 13 months to get CW back! Just in time to lose FOX come next month, unless Baltimore can up their transmitter (WTTG-DT is already maxed and WPMT-DT is almost maxed) or someone installs a LD.

That is indeed a little interesting. PBS will no longer distribute a national program service in SD after Feb 10th. Starting on the 11th, all stations have to use the HD national feed for the HD and SD content. The only SD "channels" that will remain for stations to place on their DTV SD streams are: Create, V-me and World.

There is no reason to maintain both SD and HD main channels. Our local PBS affiliate, part of Wisconsin Public Television (except in Milwuakee), has dropped the separate SD and HD feeds. The analog channel is now a cut of the HD feed, when they go to net. WPT does do their own programming. I really haven't watched them in years.

So why WETA is doing what they are doing is beyond me. Sounds like a phone call to their general manager might be in order.

Here's mine. My zip code didn't show DOCSIS 3.0 availability. Not sure how accurate this speed test is.





My results from http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/:

Download Speed: 13581 kbps (1697.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2382 kbps (297.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

WBFF-DT is already at full power. It's not going to get any higher power.

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http://titantvguide.titantv.com/apg/...x?siteid=52545 (scroll to the bottom of the page)

Sorry about the program guide. That's another thing that I was told was going to be there yesterday...

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Does Comcast still have Power Boost? When I last had Comcast Internet, in Summer 2007, (before I got FIOS) I always had 30mbs download speeds on those tests because we had 30mbs Powerboost in my area.(I don't remember what the upload powerboost was)

I am in A.A. county and received a email the other day saying my area was upgraded but the speeds were still the same. I have been checking every day for the last few days and this morning it looks like it is finally working.

My download is a little faster but upload is much faster. Before I was about 32000 down and 2200 up.

Glad to see more progamming but the PQ for 45.2 is terrible. I just can't watch it.

How about a LD for those of us West of Frederick?

Mark,
Legend of the Seeker on 54.1 was in SD again this week. Is it going back to HD? I hadn't been watching the reruns, but this weeks was new, and in SD