Milwaukee HDTV User Group

This will be cool to finally see all of the events live.  Let's just hope that it's decent bandwidth for decent resolution and limited artifacting.

http://www.dailytech.com/NBC+to+Stream+London+2012+Summer+Olympics+Live+Online/article24492.htm

QuoteNBC announced that all sports in the London 2012 Summer Olympics would be streamed live on the internet in addition to the prime-time broadcast.

NBC said it plans to stream all 32 sports live on nbcolympics.com when the London 2012 Summer Olympics arrive this July. Rick Cordella, vice president and general manager of NBC Sports Digital Media, said the idea to stream on the Internet came from popular demand.

"The hot topic is always, 'Why don't you show all your sports live?'" said Cordella. "We wanted to take care of that."

The move may seem odd for the American commercial broadcasting television network, which usually depends on the primetime broadcast on television to draw in viewers. However, NBC has found a way to make sure the network and viewers are happy.

While all 32 sports will stream live on nbcolympics.com, the major events will not be archived until after the prime-time television broadcast. For instance, major events in swimming, diving, track and field, beach volleyball and gymnastics are important to NBC's prime-time coverage, so the live streaming version of these events will not be archived until after the TV broadcast. All others, however, will be archived immediately.

According to Cordella, the way viewers watch videos has changed over the years and it's important for NBC to change too. In addition, he said live streaming could increase viewership of an event shown later.

"We're not scared of cannibalization," said Cordella. "Anytime you have a great event that happens before it shows on the air, it increases ratings and generates buzz.

"Whatever is on schedule that day, if cameras are on it, we'll stream it."

The London 2012 Summer Olympics is expected to be the hot spot for technology this summer as Visa and Samsung prepare to launch an Olympics and Paralympics Games mobile handset with NFC technology, and Wi-Fi is expected to be provided to everyone with mobile devices where no 3G or 4G is required.

Does anyone know if any of the local channels will be carrying the last space shuttle in HD?  It's today at 2:47pm.

http://www.space.com/11517-nasa-space-shuttle-endeavour-launch-preview.html

Thanks,
           Ben

How much are you paying a month?  I'm talking about analog channels 2-99 with a cable straight out of your wall to your TV.  No boxes, no DVRs, no remotes.  

I'm trying to tighten my belt and get my budget under control.  Right now I'm paying Dish $65 a month for the Dish200 package with two boxes, one which is a dual tuner DVR.  I want to cut my TV expenses in half.

I made a quick call to TWC and the morons kept trying to sell me packages.  I DON'T WANT THAT!!!  I don't want a box, I don't want a cable modem, I don't want digital phone.

Thanks for your time and for any input.


Ben

So how about dropping 4.2  down to the absolute lowest bandwidth that your encoder can go?  480i, 1fps, and just re-map the olympics audio?  Then drop 4.3 all together for two weeks?

C'mon engineers!  I'll even send a box of Crispy Kremes over!

I remember how good OTA HD looked when the subchannels didn't exist.  Give us that back for two weeks.  Pretty please!

Is our feed to TWC/AT&T/Dish full bandwidth?  In other words, are the feeds to them send as 3 separate full bandwidth channels?  I'm guessing not but I figured that I'd ask.

BTW, any engineering positions available?  

Thanks,
            Ben

Hi,
   I'm thinking of changing from Dish to U-verse.  I've heard that if you are using the HDMI output, that it disables the other video outputs.  Does it also disable the analog audio and optical audio outputs?

I'm wondering because I'm planning on using HD Fury HDMI to VGA converters.  I have a weird setup with a Sony GDM-FW900 24" widescreen CRT monitor in my bedroom and a RCA MM36100 EDTV 36" CRT in my den.  Both only have VGA inputs with analog audio inputs.

Thanks,
           Ben

In case you guys haven't heard about it yet, check this out...

http://labs.divx.com/archives/000068.html

As of Divx 6.1, it now supports dual processors, dual cores, and HT.  This is awesome news for everyone with HTPCs.   Personally I've been thinking about upgrading my encoding rig.  I was just going to go with a super fast single processor system.  Now I'm planning on saving up for a dual processor dual-core AMD X2 system.  It's gonna rock!!  :rock:   (Something like this.)

BTW, they have also upped the HD encoding bitrate to a maximum of 6Mbps.  Oh yeah.

BP

Hi,
   Does anyone know of a site that has a detailed HD schedule?  I'm having a difficult time trying to record things.


BTW, if I hear that Sony commercial one more time, I'm gonna break something.

Thanks,
          Ben

Hi,
    I just got finished putting up a shiny new Winegard PR-7032 antenna on my parent's roof.  I am getting INCREDIBLE signal levels.  My average analog signal level is about +29dBmV.  (I was freezing so I didn't get the digital levels.)   I am currently at 100% on all stations on a MIT MDP-200 STB.

The only station that I can't get is 6.  I used antennaweb and found that there is about a 25 degree seperation between all of the normal stations transmitters and 6's.  The antenna's specs have a 51 degree beamwidth on channel 33.

Why am I not seeing anything?  Are they off the air?  What hieght and power level are they transmitting at?

Thanks in advance.

BTW, I will post all of my signal level readings for everone's reference for the New Berlin area.

Later,
         Ben

Hi,
    I just found this site a couple of days ago and have worked up the nerve to ask my first Q....

I have a RCA MM36100 EDTV.  The HD input is only a 15-pin HD (VGA) connector.  Do any (or all) of the TWC HDTV boxes have a 15 pin output?  BTW, I also have a normal y-r-b component input but it will only accept 480i.

Also, is there any way for me to pick up a box from TWC?  I went to return my analog one and asked for a HD one.  They said no, and that they were only call ahead/install on-site.  Argh.  I don;t want any cable dumbguy touching my gear.

BTW, FWIW, I had the pleasure of turning on channel 10's HD transmitter about 4 years ago.  (It was only connected to a dummy load ....thanks Nolan!)

Later,
Ben