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Why is it a guarantee that Fox will end up in SD every single week? Saints Giants reverted to SD.

Must be your local station since no problems here with the game, it's in HD.

Must be your local station since no problems here with the game, it's in HD.

Are you talking Sunday Ticket or local broadcast? Because I'm watching via local Fox affiliate and it's HD. ST Red Zone also has hd when they cut to the game. Must be your affiliate, not Fox.

Its channel 4 in Dallas. Well as I am typing this they just fixed it. Its a local station but I watch it over dish not OTA.

Yeah, I had the same problem with KDFW Channel 4 in Dallas; via DirecTV

Interesting, because KDFW-Fox 4 Is a Fox Owned & Operated station.

Doesn't matter. In most cases, it's the OTA signal that gets picked up and shot back to D*. You see the same thing an OTA viewer does because it's Channel 4's signal. Since none of us saw it, the error is KDFW's, not Fox's.

And O&O doens't mean anything. The splicer fouls up all the time here in Detroit, too. Most often when they're trying to overlay bulletins or weather bugs. But, quite often, it comes out of a local spot in SD and stays there a while. Ghost in the works.

Happens here in San Francisco on FOX independent KTVU as well, for a very brief second you'll get an SD feed and then it pops into the HD feed, sometimes it doesn't "pop" and you're stuck with SD. I've watched FOX prime time shows where it does it on nearly every commercial break.

I dunno about that, WJBK-Fox 2 Detroit is also a Fox O&O station as well.

Searches on AVS and on the Middle Atlantic rack site haven't helped.
Thought i'd ask here.

I got DirectTV yesterday with one C31/700 receiver installed in a Middle Atlantic rack system.
Do you know if there is a Middle Atlantic rack mount/face plate for the C31/700?
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fforums.solidsignal.com%2Fdocs%2FHands%2520on%2520with%2520C31.pdf

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Thanks.

Mike

The thing is so tiny that I doubt they even bothered. It doesnt even have enough weight to keep itself in place when the cables want to twist it around.

Sounds like the Rokus. The outer edge of my screen is just high enough above the stand to slide the Roku under it to hold it in place. Otherwise, it would do exactly what you are talking about.

That could very well be the case.
I'm wondering what to do with it..
Seems like a sideways arrangement with storage for the rest of a 2-3 RU height would work ?

Mike

I vote....zip ties....

My Roku 2 is sitting on the stand all cockeyed. Pisses me off but not enough to do something about it lol. Does kinda make me wonder if I like the small things better or prefer something a bit more substantial.

The C31 looks just the STB that TWC uses. Maybe it is!!!

I had the same issue with Rokus in different rooms, I purchased a couple Monoprice RedMere cables for the Rokus and now they sit nice and flat.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10255

A lot of things are like that.

Certain devices need a bit of substance and don't need to be tiny. AV components are in the list of things that really don't need to be since they aren't intended to be portable. Sure, being small let's you hide them for that minimalist look, but the power cables are always the gotcha unless you run a line to the hiding spot for them. It's all well and good to stick your stuff on the back side of TV you hang on a wall (then use RF and Bluetooth to control them) until you have to plug everything in - "wall warts" included. Then there's the occasion when you want to plug in a flash drive full of photos or videos...

Then you have to deal with game systems in all kinds of shapes.

Even traditional DVD and Blu-ray players are getting smaller footprints, making things harder to stack (my region free DVD player sits on top of my BD player on top of little spacers for airflow, for example). The old BD player was much larger, hence the reason it was on the bottom. The new one is the same smaller size of the DVD player, so it wasn't a big deal to put it in the old spot.

Having said that, the bluetooth remote for the Ruko means it doesn't need line of sight, so it can be put anywhere, including sticking it to the back of the TV. I just wonder how many people choose an option like that verses letting it sit oddly in the TV stand...

In my case, the TV sits on a pedestal, and that creates a gap below the screen cabinet on either side of it just high enough for the Roku to tuck under it, which holds it down. Otherwise, I'd likely clamp it to the underside of the cabinet top (in other words, to the "ceiling" of the equipment area), way in back and out of sight.

I like things neat and organized. I even use cables with color coded jackets to easily find what is going where if I have to replace a component or move something. Of course, at work we use a unique code number for every single audio, video, network and other connection you can look up in the system to see where it goes, which may thousands of feet of cable away in a different building. I'm not quite needing to do that with my stuff....
Edited by NetworkTV - 12/16/12 at 7:32am

My Rokus just hang like dongles off the back of the TV, out of sight out of mind.

Why do you need more than one Roku?

Looks like MA does have it:

Model = RSH4A2S DIRECTV C31700

I have 2 Roku 2 XS units and two WD streamers -- One for each display. I've thought of velcroing the Rokus to the back of the but it's not enough of an issue to bother with.TV,

More than one TV.

Has anyone here switched to D* from verizon fios? Or has both? What do you think of the PQ, comparatively?

I was at Paul's TV and they had D*. I don't know how they had it set up, they probably had a splitter that degraded the PQ. Yet surprisingly, I thought their picture looked better than what I have with fios at home. Not by a huge margin, but better. I was looking through several channels TNT, food, espn. TNT is especially subpar on fios. I thought it looked pretty ok on D*

Most people give a slight edge to Verizon FIOS over DirecTV when it comes to picture quality. My guess is their TV either has better picture quality than yours, or is calibrated better.

I have A/B'd the same channels, same TV, same time on Fios and Direc. Fios always looked better, especially on the Network feeds. Cable networks feeds we're often closer. Did the same with Cox HD Cable and Direc. The Network feeds usually looked better on Cox, while most of the Network feeds looked better, and sometimes much better on Direc .Ex. Live Mecum Auto Auction on Velocity looked bright and clear on D, while bit-starved and swimming back-ground on Cox HD.

How could that small thing require two rack spaces? I guess they dont design anything to take up one space?

I just got the 0x462c firmware update and channel changing is FAST!

I've had Directv since 2004 gave up on cable/OTA switching speeds.

Great update......

i have the genie with no optical port. ihave soundbar that only has 2 optical ports with 1 being connected to my ps3 for games and movies. sound is terrible on movies with the genie. would it be better to use the optical port on tv or buy toslink adapter? if i use tv port will i still be able to switch between genie and ps3?