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Unfortunately I dont make the channel assignment decisions. Not quite sure why we chose that channel.

Full Power Digital??? Have you been talking to the dtvanswers.com people?

1,000th post!!!!!!

49 analog is Me-TV out of Milwaukee I believe, so I don't think they would've put it there yet anyway.

But the 46 part doesn't make much sense either.

I haven't been able to pick up WDJT-DT for a couple of weeks now - I wonder why that is?

Gilbert - you heard anything on this lately? I just want to know when so I can figure out which way to point my antenna and try to get it.

Hey that's one. About another 15 to go. Is the 4.75kw going to be their full time power or is this just a test power?

Ok, is WBBM secretly sending out a DTV signal on UHF from somewhere?

Getting WBBM on a full sized Low-VHF antenna is hard enough, but a UHF-only antenna? What kind is it?

It's been coming in OK for me here in Woodstock. Just watched CSI. However, it used to come in like gangbusters but for many many months now, it's acted like it's marginal, getting occasional dropouts.

I'm not looking forward to WMEU coming on the air on the same channel. It will probably wipe out CBS for me.

-dickm

in the middle of the night... ?
when less people are watching and gonna notice

That's the goal.

- Trip

Thank you, Gilbert.  The next question is whether that means the mornings of those dates or the wee hours at the close of each of those dates.

In other words, should we stay up late Friday night, November 7?

I heard WBBM
Kris Habermehl yesterday mentioned on air.. that Chopper 2 is being upgraded to HD.. should be in service Soon..

Beats me, but it sure is acting like it! Though if I run femon on my mythtv box, even though the signal isn't breaking up the snr ratio femon reports tells me the signal is just on the good side of marginal. So I'd imagine during a hard snow I'd have problems. (Then again, if the snow holds off until february... )

Yet despite that, WBBM-DT is still coming in just fine, all of a sudden! (See attachments.)


Nothing special, just a bog standard DB2! (From that antennas direct place, though I didn't buy it there. I don't remember what AVS's policies are for linking, so I'll just leave it as a google search for those who don't know what it is.)

Thank you.

Then the only thing for the highly curious to do is to try on the morning of November 8 and, if analog comes through on 7 and digital on 52 comes through to 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3, hope to find different results during the test hours on Sunday morning.

On the other hand, if the test is running on Saturday morning, November 8, we can sleep straight through on Friday night, November 14.

It looks like MythTV doesn't show a ".1" when there are no sub-channels? Does it confirm the physical channel?

Let's see how long it keeps working, but come February, you will need to deal with upper VHF 7 & 12. How does the DB2 look on 7, 9, & 11 right now?

If you have a pair of rabbit ears around, I would be curious to see what changes when you use them, but perhaps it's best to leave it alone while WBBM is working.

I was wondering if anyone has heard any updates on ThisTV OTA making its debut? I saw on another thread that Comcast had announced its availability on Nov 18th (at least I think that's the date)

Thanks

Available via OTA on 26.4 by 11/1. Not sure on Comcast's timeframe to add us to their lineup.

Noticed a really minor glitch with 26-2 (and probably 23-1). When they air SiMeTV programming, the language shown in the PSIP is English.

anyone know what is going on with WMEU Channel 48?I just wanted to know

Something tells me I'm just going to be blocking out all of WCIU's subchannels after 11/1.

At that point, who cares how many channels there are, and what they're showing.

I just hope 26.1 still looks good enough to watch. I might very well have to go back to just listening to the baseball games on radio, because I just can't watching a sporting event full of digital artifacts - rather watch a blurry, old cable or OTA analog signal.

People think the football games look so great on CBS, but I can still see plenty of artifacts, and it's hard for me to watch.

Thanks for the update on WLS, My calander is marked..

I really want to see when WBBM cuts off WTTW and tests out WBBMDT on 12 for their test. Anyone have an idea when that may be.

BREAKING NEWS

WYCC-DT Acutally is showing someting in HD. Crazy how that works.

Watching Jacques Pepin: more fast food my way in HD. There is some major micro blocking noticeable. when he moves and when things cut over from HD. It would be nice if you all could get rid of the SD channel and just go with an HD only as its sad when there's noticeable micro blocking on a COOKING SHOW! I can tell you one thing they are giving WTTW a run for their money. When are we going to get a serious PBS Station that will take HD seriously.

Pardon my ignorance, but how can a viewer tell whether something on an HD channel is natively in HD or is upconverted from SD?  Surely one can't assume that 16:9 material is true HD while 4:3 material is upconverted from SD (though that would be right some of the time).

Anything specific? I've been watching the digital broadcast off and on throughout the day on 26-3 and haven't noticed any issues. Just flipped over to analog 48 and it looks like it usually does.

You're going to want to stab me for saying this, but I think it's a good idea.

If I were in Weigel's position right now, I would flip 26-1 to widescreen 480i and do straight SD multicasting on 26-x. Then I'd put WCIU in 720p or 1080i (whichever) on WWME-LD.

I'd do it once WWME-LD manages to boost power, of course, but it'd make the HD available in complete clarity, and the subchannels available to the widest possible audience.

Ideally, if Weigel could get a second full-service station, this would make more sense.

- Trip

I would love it if they gave the programming on 26.1 it's own channel (in both HD and SD - they also show a lot of SD material that I would like to see kept in it's best, possible shape). But I know that's never going to happen.

If they could do that, there wouldn't be any reason for them to also have it on 26.1 in widescreen 4:3. They could make the MGM movie channel HD, and just have the other, three subs still. But they're already set up for at least 6 channels, so I don't expect them to cut down to any less. If anything, they'd take that first, HD one, and divide it up into even more 480i ones.

I'm just sorry to see OTA analog disappearing - because I would at least have that to fall back on. I usually get WCIU analog in well, but even if it's a tad snowy or ghosty, I can usually stomach that better than digital artifacts.