Columbia, SC - HDTV - Page 332

Hey everyone,

I'm new to antenna tv. I lost my cable recently and can't afford it anymore, so I bought a $10 RCA antenna from best buy, put it in the window, connected it to the converter box, which is connected to the analog TV, and boom--I have a great signal on:

WIS and their subchannels
This Columbia
ETV
PBS
CBS
Fox

But no ABC.

The antenna registers that there is something coming from the tower, I think, because it stops on 25.1 and 25.3, but the screen is black.

Any tips on how to get this channel?

Thanks

ETA: I'm in downtown columbia, near USC.

WOLO (ABC) broadcasts on VHF-8...(and WIS on VHF-10)..most of those cheap antennas have poor performance at VHF..so you may need a better antenna..or move the one you have around to try different locations as possible. And dependent on your location downtown, you may get some signal blockage by buildings. But in general you should not have any issues getting ABC Columbia.

Look here for reference:

http://www.rabbitears.info/search.ph...=&lon=&height=

Sad to see the Columbia thread get so little activity.

What do you think of the new Google TV. I am interested to see how it will interact with the TWC box.

Right now U-Verse seems to be bringing out all the cool extra features.

Not sure it's sad to see so little activity. It used to be a lot about the hideous job TWC was doing back in the day. I was a critic but must admit they have gotten it better.

Since this got bumped back up it reminds me...

I had a 19" HDTV out at the game this past saturday. I tuned it to the Digital Broadcast of Channel 10 showing the UT-UGA game. It was locked on and looking beautiful, then I stepped away for a while and when I came back I couldn't get the channel anymore. I tried reaquiring the signal several times...moving the antenna around, etc. Very strange that I couldn't pick up 10-1 in basically downtown Columbia. We all joked that the CBS stage that was nearby had decided to block our signal but I can't think of anything else that would've caused it. Anybody got any ideas?

Most likely interference from a wireless mic on or near WIS VHF frequency.

Thanks, I guess our paranoia wasn't that far off-base.

I also suspect I just need to get a bigger antenna. Anybody recommend any good ones that are reasonably portable?

Does anyone here have the new TWC HD 3D channel ?

Does anyone else have issues with ESPN and several other HD channels being very "pixelated" looking these days, especially during movement? Seems like this has happened in the past couple of weeks at my house.

What is up with the USC-Vandy game not being on the HD FSN Channel?

They need to fix that. Watching football in non-HD now is awful.

As for the above poster, I have not noticed some pixelation and what appears to be lower quality in some ESPN games. However, to me it seems to be the lesser important games. I wondered if it had to do with the quality of camera.

It was on FSN HD for me.

YES! i sure do, i thought i was the only one who noticed this. do you guys also have time warner? i am thinking this noise is coming in from time warner compressing the crap out the video signal to cram more channels into the same bandwidth.

i am watching on a 58 plasma, and this thing looks terrible..

ESPN has never been one of the best looking HD channels, but I wouldn't say it's been overly pixelated, or really looked any different than ever. I'm watching on a 120" HD Projector.

Anyone signed up for ESPN3?

I have Time Warner. I agree with the other poster it's never been fantastic like TBSHD but I compared Saturday nite....a couple of the football games on stations like ABC and even ESPN 2. ESPN was noticably worse.

If they have it, try this antenna first:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=3611256

yes sir.....i sure did. I am now wondering how long it will take for espn 3d to get here, i am still not sold on 3d but got a great deal on one. I wanna check it out first hand......hopefully they get it launched before my 30 days is up

I watched the Gamecocks game Saturday on ESPN3 through a laptop. Others report getting it through Google TV so I think ESPN3 on the big screen is my next step.

I'd like to hear from some TWC subscribers in the Columbia area. How has service been lately? Any issues with channels disappearing for days, crappy service etc? How is the TWC HD-DVR, is it reliable?

I'm a current Directv subscriber considering a switch to TWC.

Last few days have been bad. Digital channels 105 up to but not including 200 have been hard to get to come in. Last night The Walking Dead was untunable but I see that it did record at 10PM so I have to hope that it's actually watchable. Not sure why all this is happening: sunspots maybe?...

Nice to see that last Thursday Wis has began to broadcast all their news in HD. Quite a improvement from their past blurry vision broadcast.

My Brother had TWC & said the Locals [WLTX,WOLO, WIS & etc] looked blurry & nasty. He said what they call hd is compressed. He said he the antenna is soooo much better. But what he likes even better is the extra channel sub that you get off the antenna. Also he likes getting Augusta Channels as an extra.

Huh, I missed that. It happens I hadn't looked at WIS news since election night. I finally took a look this morning. It definitely does look good. Even the one field clip I saw looked like it was HD.

Does TWC have HD 3D Channels yet???

Anyone tied them if they do ??

I remembered this post last weekend while watching the USC-UF game, that was one awful looking picture. I'm with you now, it was terrible. Wonder what's going on?

for all those who are wondering what is going on with the terrible pq on hd digital channels.....

this past wednesday time warner came out to my apartments and replaced all wiring. The tech told me that the wiring hasnt been replaced in over 14 years. I asked him if this was normal, and he told me he would be willing to bet that the majority of columbia has not been updated in over a decade. He also said that all a customer has to do is call and ask when the last time the wiring was replaced and if its been a few years to request to have them replace it because of the terrible pq.
another thing he told me was not to worry about time warner saying no. they wouldnt do that unless the wiring is pretty recent. Just tell them that you are willing to go else where if this is best pq you are going to get with them (he said thats what his neighbor did)

but anyway, back on point. After wednesday my pq looks great, i mean crystal clear. Another thing i have noticed is that my internet speed has also gone up. Before i was looking at 4.2-4.8 mbps. After wednesday i am between 6.2-6.7

hope that helps you guys. Very satisfied after the replaced wiring

Does Fox only broadcast its football games in Dolby 2.0? That's what my receiver reads. Isn't that unusual? Don't most stations broadcast 5.1?

Anyone else having problems with TWC reception now. It is almost unwatchable. Vey choopy.

Player2, yes, they were definitely having problems Saturday evening. I'm in the Lexington area. I tried calling into customer service to report the issue, but the estimated hold time was 20-25 minutes so I opted for the on-line chat where I got a response almost immediately. (Internet seemed to be working fine)

The recording that plays before you are put on hold said that WLTX was experiencing issues, but that it was on WLTX's end and their engineers were working to correct the problem. I'm not sure if WLTX was having specific problems earlier, but the issue was on all channels when I called in around 8, I believe. The problems cleared up shortly after that.

Hello. I'm in the Irmo area. U-Verse guy came by and has offered a very good deal as compared to TWC. I'm thinking about switching, but wonder if the U-V HD is any better than TWC's? Also, Internet speeds vs. Road Runner? I know this is a vague question, but thoughts or experience would be appreciated. Thanks.