This weekend I finally got my new HDTV, SIR-T160, and OTA antenna installed. Won't get my sat-C kit until this week, so right now I'm just watching OTA. Last night was my first night to sit down and view the fruits of my labor. Started off with "Yes Dear" and "Still Standing" (at least I think that's what was on). Horrible shows, but I just wanted to watch some HD. About halfway through the first show, it became SD (as if someone forgot to "flip the switch" back to HD after a commercial break), and it stayed that way until about halfway through the second show. I bounced around a bit to Monday Night Football (don't like sports, but that is certainly the most eye-popping). Later watched CSI, and The Tonight Show. Football and CSI seemed fine, but the first 15 or so minutes of The Tonight Show had no sound. Had to listen to the feed off of satellite while watching video from OTA (which resulted in considerable time delay). The sound eventually came on, but sounded bad, then eventually got fixed completely. So three out of the five shows I sampled had considerable problems for a significant amount of time. I have to ASSUME that since the issues eventually fixed themselves, that it was the networks, not my STB. Is this par for the course? Does someone actually have to manually switch back and forth between HD and SD during commercial breaks, or is the equipment just buggy?
Can't WAIT for my Sat-C kit. I never realized how bad the programming was on the networks until I tried to find something decent to watch on them. Hopefully I'll have better technical luck with HBO, Showtime, DiscoveryHD, HDnet, etc.
Can't WAIT for my Sat-C kit. I never realized how bad the programming was on the networks until I tried to find something decent to watch on them. Hopefully I'll have better technical luck with HBO, Showtime, DiscoveryHD, HDnet, etc.