Columbia, SC - HDTV - Page 285

NFL Network looked better than WIS last night

that certainly isn't saying much

Hey Guys,

I know this is old, but I'm catching up on Journeyman episodes from my DVR. Every episode goes from HD to SD for the last 10 minutes. Was WIS having problems in November? I recorded them OTA to my HR20

David

i don't think there is any month when WIS wasn't having problems.

Recent updates:
12/31/07

Conducted complete system proof and alignment of NTSC path from CBS Sat receiver to STL/Cable video output DA. (Significantly sharper and brighter network video should be observed on the analog OTA and analog cable channels.)

Re-configured SDI input of DTV Flexicoder. This has greatly reduced the pixilation, edge crawl and chroma bug on D19-3. Also this change allows more bandwidth to be allocated to D19-1 for HD/5.1.

Harmonic digital noise that was emanating from a character generator was corrected and could have been a source for the 5.1 digital noises??? We are running only stereo until the above video changes are fully tested.

Forum, please comment on video improvements/changes. Also comment on current stereo audio status.

5.1 will be front burner first of year.

Happy New Year!

Yes, they were having a lot of problems last month. It's not your DVR

Geez, didn't you do anything with that flux capacitor?

Thanks for updating us. It's nice to know someone cares.

It sure is. Thanks alot for updating us and doing everything so quick.

Still getting static audio on Wltx-DT

Anyone else getting freeze frames on the ESPN-HD telecast of the Capital One Bowl (Mich-UFla)?

Gator Bowl looked great on my end. of course, I was at the game and not at home GO RED RAIDERS!

Has the WLTX weather radar on 19-2 gone for good, or is it just down temporarily? That subchannel seems to have disappeared completely. It doesn't show up on a channel scan, just 19-1 and 19-3.

I bet most people here will be happy if it's gone for good and the bandwidth goes to 19-1.

Cable giants aim to rule HD
Companies increase their offerings in high definition as customers upgrade their TVs
Frank Norton, Staff Writer. The News & Observer

Time Warner Cable and its rivals are in the early stages of a torrid campaign to win the latest battle for America's dens: high-definition programming.

With thousands of new sets installed in the past year, satellite and cable service providers are touting plans to multiply the number of HD channels they offer. Until recently, Time Warner had the edge in the Triangle. Now, armed with new satellites, DirecTV can claim the most high-definition programming.

But Time Warner, the nation's second- largest cable company, is spending $50 million in North Carolina and South Carolina to allow what it says will be an unlimited number of HD channels by the middle of this year. The company does have some ground to make up: Its offering of 26 channels trails DirecTV's lineup of 85.

For its part, DirecTV promises dozens of new HD channels this year. Even AT&T, the phone company, is planning to elbow its way into the fight by spending $350 million in North Carolina to introduce high-definition TV programming.

For consumers, the programming blitz is a win, at least in the short term.

"I don't expect to see much change in monthly fees, but I do expect to see more channels added to the plans," said Alfred Poor, a founder of HDTVProfessor.com.

Time Warner declined to predict how many HD channels it will offer after its new "switched digital" technology is completed. The system will free capacity in Time Warner's network by limiting the broadcast signal to the channel being viewed. The current technology sends all signals for all channels simultaneously, whether they are being viewed or not.

With the upgrade, Time Warner will be able to broadcast as many HD channels as it has agreements to distribute, said Brad Phillips, a spokesman for Time Warner Cable in North Carolina. The company will automatically upgrade all customers by mid-2008 without any change in prices, he said.

"Customers want more HD, and we're doing all we can to provide it," Phillips said.

He-He.. yea, right..

Still be worth it. Unlimited full bandwidth HD. You know what Granny says.

Why did WLTX-DT switch back to 5 channel stereo? Was it because the stereo contained static?

Sorry, but unlimited full bandwidth is 1.5gb/s..like we have coming out of our HD cameras. Then there's HD VTR's somewhere in the middle.. Next best is satellite distribution for networks at ~36-40mb/s..THEN there's cable.. Oh, but some of you can't see the good stuff..Granny needs to learn more about HD..

I sure hope your TWC stock is doing well.!

Well maximum allowable, minimal compression per channel. How's that? Granny knows SDV is a good thing.

Yea, TW really needs to get SDV going.. Of course, I welcome AT&T to Bring it on!

Me too! Y'all think I'm so enamored with the fat bastards at TWC but I just see it as the best option right now all things considered.

I suspect the "5 channel stereo" indication is being determined by a setting on your surround sound receiver. It the station is transmitting only stereo as Chief19 says, you can probably have the default fallback decoding be PrologicII, 5 channel strero, direct (straight 2.0 stereo) or perhaps some other options. On our Denon, we have it set to default to PrologicII if the incoming digital audio is not flagged as 5.x.

Mike

Something was up with NBC-HD this morning on TWC at around 7am. It was showing a Weather forecase loop where it was supposed to be the Today show. I always have NBC-SD on in my bedroom in the morning and then turn on NBC-HD on in my living room while I'm in the kitchen...there's always a half-second delay between the two which is not a big deal, but I'm not used to there being totally different programming.

they had switched to 2.0 stereo for a few days last week, and my receiver indicated it as such, but then went back to 5.1 (or as close to 5.1 as WLTX gets). the static is much softer, but still there (at least it was last night which was the last time i tuned in).

I had the same thing on WIS-DT via OTA this morning.

Thanks for posting so I know I'm not crazy.

The funny thing is that it switched at some point because I specifically remember seeing Meredith talking about "Coming up on Today" and then it switched to the weather forecast (maybe for the local forecast) and never switched back. At least not in the next 10-15 minutes at least. This was all a little before and a little after 7am.

can someone with tv background experience tell me why the time, play, quarter etc. has to be displayed 2 inches from the top of the tv screen. most of the networks seem to do this and I just don't get it. Why don't we just go to a 16 x 7 aspect ratio for these football networks.

Because those with SD, 4:3 sets take precedent over us with widescreen HDTVs. There are, after all, more SD sets out there than HD at the moment... It was lower to compensate for overscan on SD tvs... Though, it did seem a lot lower than normal.

Thanks, I should have figured that one out, but it just wouldn't register with me for some reason, and yes it did seem a lot lower than usual last night.

way to go WISTV...

Frozen video at the first commercial break for the NFL playoffs...

Picture is fine on TWC but sound just does not seem to be full frequency range.