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[bradsmainsite]

" The beauty of RF is it's still FREE"



What make you say RF is free? Who pays for all the advetising carried on OTA or anywhere of course the consumer! For instance do you know that Green Bay PACKERS are getting over 90 million dollars a year from the current NFL tv contract that boils down to about $15 dollars per wisconsin resident and also did you know that when you purchase a new automobile your paying well over a thousand dollars just for the cost of advertising. and that ommercial tv stations, are among the most profitable bussinesses you can own. In this country many OTA stations have profit margins of over 60% unlike almost any other business which averages about 6 to 10%.

I do not pay any monthly service for HD.

I also do not buy or have to buy any product of any sponsor of broadcast TV.

I suppose somewhere I contribute, but at least I don't have to write a check every month to someone for it!;)

[tencom]

The term RF (Radio Frequency) only applies to the electromagnetic part of the spectrum from  about 30 KHZ  to at least 100 GHZ and can be transmitted either through wires or OTA, so your use of the term " RF" also applies to cable since their signals that pass through the cable are part of this electromagnetic spectrum. As there signals run from 54 to 750 MHZ.
Maybe you should use a different term for RF to Differentiate between the two mediums

[Talos4]

:rolleyes:



:deadair:

[bradsmainsite]

The term RF (Radio Frequency) only applies to the electromagnetic part of the spectrum from  about 30 KHZ  to at least 100 GHZ and can be transmitted either through wires or OTA, so your use of the term " RF" also applies to cable since their signals that pass through the cable are part of this electromagnetic spectrum. As there signals run from 54 to 750 MHZ.
Maybe you should use a different term for RF to Differentiate between the two mediums

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[picopir8]

My New Years resolution is to give TWC a few months in 07 to make some HD upgrades or, they will lose me to satelite TV.

Why switch?!?!  Satellite carries fewer local channels in HD.

TWC HD locals = 4,6,10,12,58 (plus all ch 36 multicasts, ch 4's weather multicast, trinity broadcastings DTV channel, and a few more)
Dish HD locals = none
DirecTV HD locals = 4,6,12

Total TWC HD channels = 15 (included premium/PPV/locals)
Total Dish HD channels = 30 (includes premium/PPV)
Total DirecTV channels = 13 (includes premium/PPV/locals; excludes sunday ticket)

For the most HD content you are best off going with Dish and an antenna for locals.  DirecTV though sucks worse than TWC for HD.  Not to mention that their HD picture is not true HD.

[Chinatown]

.are derived through a roof top antenna..........a one time $70.00 fee. In addition, rumor has it that "D' is going to buy "Voom" and add it to their package

[gparris]

If Directv gets its satellites up soon this year, maybe the HD-Lite will go away, otherwise, Voom is downrezzed, from what I read in other forums, at least for now.
Voom channels would be a nice fit since these, too, are downrezzed already (and if Directv would keep downrezzing).

Where did you get your info/rumor about VOOM on Directv,Chinatown?
I count 5 HD channels plus NFLHD you get with Dishnetwork, less INHD if you subtract the Voom channels, currently at what, 1440 x 1080?
Still a nice compliment of HD channels, though you must use OTA for the 4 HD major networks, unlike the Twin Cities and Chicago have.

As far as HD channel loads, too bad we don't have the additions like Comcast customers to the south of us are getting lately.

No wonder avsforums has a long-running thread, to the tune of:
"What's the next HD channel for Comcast"?

You don't get a thread there that about TWC, do we?

[Chinatown]

"News
DIRECTV Could Buy Voom HD
Published report says new owner Liberty Media is considering an offer.
By Phillip Swann
Washington, D.C. (January 3, 2007) -- Liberty Media, which recently purchased satcaster DIRECTV, is now interested in buying Rainbow Media, which includes 15 Voom High-Definition TV channels.

The New York Post reports that Liberty Media Chairman John Malone is engaging in "informal chatter" with the Dolan family, which owns Cablevision, which owns Rainbow Media.

Liberty Media is expected to take control of DIRECTV in the second half of the year. The company secured the satcaster in a stock swap with News Corp. late last year. "

[gparris]

You're right, what with Liberty now having control of Directv, things could definitely change for the better, but those 2 new sats have GOT to go up so the bandwidth - and - bitrate - and - resolution have to go back up, too.
"HD-Lite" with more HD channels may not be acceptable for most as more HDTVs are sold and screen sizes go up - more chance to see compression artifacts.

Thanks for the info!:wave:

[picopir8]

.are derived through a roof top antenna..........a one time $70.00 fee. In addition, rumor has it that "D' is going to buy "Voom" and add it to their package

The whole thread was started because TWC does not offer _ALL_ locals and the previous poster stated that he would leave TWC for satellite if the offerings were not increased, yet TWC offers the most locals.  If adding an antenna for satellite is an option then it should be an option as well for TWC.

As for DirecTV adding channels.  Nothing is set in stone.  I would much rather stick with TWC until that time than get locked into a contract with DirecTV only to discover that the whole plan fell through and be suck with fewer channels (which are also down-resed).

If an antenna is viable option then, Dishnetwork is the best choice since they already have 30 HD channels including the voom channels.