Columbia, SC - HDTV - Page 284

I'm getting it OTA and it looks terrible...

Of course, by CBS i mean WLTX, not CBS as a whole though.

Better get up on the roof!

It's not the antenna.

It looks like it's not getting enough bandwidth or whatever. Even the SD stuff is macro-blocking like crazy...

Better buy the next version box!

it's WLTX, who have apparently decided to make the video match the crappy audio that we've come to know and be annoyed with. i know we're supposed to go easy on them because they don't have a chief engineer and the GM is a swell guy, but at this point it'd be better if they just took it off the air until they can get their equipment/personnel issues squared away.

WLTX HD blows today. The signal is compressed too much or something and it is unwatchable. I watch these knuckleheads OTA once a week and they can't get it right. Bah Humbug! Do not adjust your antenna. Has anyone called engineering.

Just talked to WLTX master control. They admit to a pixelating problem from the CBS feed but they don't know what to do about it. I would hate to count on them if I really needed them. The bottom line is locals don't have enough OTA HD viewers to really care very much about us (IMO).

whats even worse is that the SD channel is much more watchable than the HD channel at the moment...wow..

Seems WLTX finally fixed it...

Other than being a troll, why would you post about a Columbia local that you do not recieve? You bring nothing of vaule to this Columbia thread.

I also had problems with WLTX today, I wanted to watch the packers-bears game, we had the giants-bills game on fox here. I figured I could go OTA and switch between cbs and fox but wltx looked like it was on drugs or something. I ended up watching the packers game on fox.

ota and cable showed exactly the same thing.

I guess you have not noticed ncxcstud and I enjoy the banter so skip by the posts, learn how to use the ignore poster button or butt out.

Yeah the same thing was on cable and ota in Florence too. But there fox game was new york giants and buffalo bills and columbia fox had green bay and chicago. both had the same cbs game.

Been Gone. Had an equipment problem on Sunday.

I'll second that and say that I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Yeah, real nice. Tell someone who is discussing a topic created specifically for this thread to butt out. However, it's perfectly acceptable for you to ramble on about granny, the roof and your love of cable.

Please, please , go back to DD 2.0 for all programming. Your stations use of 5 channel stereo for DD 5.1 is so distracting that my family ask "why is it so loud". My answer is "lets watch something on another channel"

Merry Christmas to you too!

Greetings,

Terry Wright here. I am the new Chief for WLTX. Having only been here for a few days it will take me a little time to accustom myself to WLTX's technical plant.

The Chief Engineer (Dan Stalnaker) who originally installed the HD system here did an excellent job and I had always heard that WLTX's HD was the best in the beginning. So I was somewhat troubled when I heard reports of 5.1 audio issues.

We are expecting several CBS and in-house capital purchases arrived at the station, begining after the first of the year. Any reports of noisy 5.1 audio will most likely disappear with our new receiver and decoder/encoder replacements but tweaking will always be part of the process.

Many of this forum's participants have state of the art HD/Dolby equipment and are blessed with keen audio/visual senses. Input from these viewers is quite important and is beneficial in maintaining the most pristine signals which is the goal of WLTX. I want to encourage the forum participants to scrutinize, evaluate and report its observations.

For now I will on occasion post to this forum pertinent WLTX notices/updates. Later I would like to participate more in forum discussions. In the meantime please email me with any observed technical problems. Unfortunately I may not be able to respond to all but be assured your observations will be logged and attention given.

FYI this past weekend we had a HD card failure that caused heavy pixilation during the game until it was replaced by one of our weekend engineers.

Have a happy holiday season and may all your technology from Santa work right out of the box.

Terry Wright
WLTX-TV
Director of Technology & Operations
twright4@wltx.gannett.com

Welcome, Terry, glad to see you are on board!

Welcome Terry-Glad to see you here! Make sure Jim introduces you to the
Lizards Thicket!

Bob Davis
Director of Engineering, Bahakel Communications
WCCB-WOLO-WFXB-WBBJ-WAKA

Welcome, Terry
Thanks for the information and being a participate on the forum.

Welcome Terry! and Merry Christmas to all!

Welcome Terry. Thank you for taking the time to post on this site and bring us all up to date.

Terry, I was very frustrated with the problems you had on Sunday while I was trying to watch the game. I greatly appreciate you coming on here and explaining the situation. Now don't ever let it happen again on game day. Just kidding!

I just noticed that the TWCSC guide list The NFL Network game tonight to be on Wis and Wltx. Too bad that it likely will not happen, but interesting to say the least.

It's been publicly discussed that CBS,NBC, and NFL Net will all carry the game,
you must have been stuck under a rock the last few days?

Once again something I care nothing about, can get OTA free tonite, and still pay extra for..

He comes out to snipe.

Looks like Wis wins out tonight. Wltx has the static issue in their audio.