Milwaukee HDTV User Group

Quote from: bschlafer;54487Sure hope they get their act together before March.  Once the NCAA Tourney starts, they will be some very grumpy fans (myself included).

Seems like two channels with higher quality picture would be better than a bunch of fuzzy pixelated unwatchables.

Come on WDJT!  You can do better!


*Bill

A few years ago, they multi-cast 5 different games.  The PQ was worse than watching a webcam (no joke).  If they have the option to reduce bandwidth on the subchannels why don't they?  My CBS viewership is overall on the low side.  When you have a local affiliate pulling this bush league garbage, you have to wonder how soon before others start to leave as well.  

The sad thing is, in this day and age, the programing is available elsewhere (I'm talking torrents mostly), and if you can wait the few hours for the show to become available you can download and watch in full HD.  This isn't a problem for me since I normally timeshift all my viewing anyway.  The 1-2GB file is downloaded in a few hours and I stream it (in full HD) to my PS3 on my bigscreen.

Quote from: Jack 1000;54491Are these issues related to one vendor or provider?

OTA?

TWC

Charter

U-Verse

Dish Network

Direct TV?

Or is it everyone?  That would help in solving the problem.  The only thing that I remember is on the Packer Game TWC had a signal outage on 1006 (HD channel 6)  and I was telling my Mom to switch it to SD channel 6.  There was a logo on SD channel 6 saying that they were switching the feeds and for whatever reason, for a few moments the HD feed on 1006 did not come in.

But a few minutes later, if not seconds, it was back.  PQ seemed fine.

Jack

I made my statements after watching both "games" on un-compressed OTA.  As far as I know, TWC and D* do not compress the local signals, but since I was viewing OTA that throws that out of the equation.  I did flip to 58HD on D* and I noticed no difference.  D* can can compress all they want, but if they are only receiving 1/2 the "normal" bandwidth of other stations, the effects would be minimal.  Garbage in = garbage out

I caught the end of the Denver/KC game today and you should be ashamed to have picture quality this bad and label it as HD.  Motion blur and artifacts were everywhere.  I caught the highlights on Fox postgame and the picture looked fantastic so don't try to blame this on a network feed issue.  You should really rethink all those worthless subchannels.:mad:

Quote from: Ralph Kramden;54324Thanks everyone. I'll let Cliff Clavin know. If I want to add a Blu-ray burner down the road, does the tower need to have HDMI? Or would VGA work? Thanks.

If you plan on just burning Blu-rays I'm pretty sure you don't need either of those.  If you want to output Blu-ray to a monitor or television you will need a graphics card with HDMI output and HDCP.  You monitor must also be HDCP compatible.

Quote from: tencom;53640Don't call local tv stations owners idiots because you can't have your way, and   those tape delay telecasts of Badger hockey, got very low ratings for channel 36, probably the reason for cancellation! Why don't you just subscribe to cable or satellite  and not complain about it.  UW has the constitunual right to assign the telecasting rights of Badger sports to the highest bidders since they derive a great income from television which helps to cover the costs of the UW system.

+1

If you don't currently have access to the programing, find a way to have access to it.  Call your cable/sat provider, go to a sports bar and watch the game, download it online.  If you REALLY cared enough, you would find a way to watch it.  The ONLY reason I'm paying for D* is so I can watch F1 on SpeedHD.  Everything else I watch is OTA or I can get it online a few hours after it airs on Hulu or via torrent.

I tried to time shift the Packer game and missed the entire 1st half.  It was recording via OTA 6-1 on my HR22-100.  I hit play, the picture and audio stuttered and kept looping the same 3 seconds.  I tried to fast forward and 30 second skip past it, but it wasn't having it.  I watched the rest of the game live.  

This has happened once before to me as well.  I forget what I had recorded, but it did the same thing stuttering and looping the first 3 seconds or so.  Never had this problem before D* rolled out the "new" software.  Not sure if this is a D* issue or a network issue, but I'd like to be able to download software updates on my own, not have them forced on me.  My 3G iPhone is still on 3.0.1 since 3G users are reporting random freezes on 3.1.

Charter is here in West Bend, hence the reason I have D*.  I wish TWC would at least get Roadrunner in the area.

I've got Showtime free for a year.  No calls or anything.  Just a letter in the mail.

Quote from: Jack 1000;52026I'm almost like, if your a local HD station, showing a 1982 movie or something, at least stretch the picture so that I don't have to look at sidebars for a big screen TV if you aren't doing the movie in HD.

Leave the aspect ratio alone!  If you want to stretch your picture on your tv watch the non-HD version of that channel or have your cable/satellite box set to fill mode.  I can't stand stretch-o-vision.  Don't make others suffer when there is an easy solution to your problem. :mad:

I've got an old RCA model DRD435RH laying around.  It has coax, RCA, and S-video out, along with Digital Audio via the optical port on the back.  Has the remote and power cable, but nothing else.  If you can use this let me know.

Off the top of my head, the following SUV's have seating for 7:

Acura MDX
Ford Flex
Kia Rondo
Mazda CX-9
Toyota Highlander
Toyota Land Cruiser (giant truck platform though)
Saturn Outlook, GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave, Chevy Traverse (all the same vehicle)
Chevy Tahoe and Suburban, and the GMC equivalent (again, truck based)


The Kia will be the cheapest, great warranty.  Acura is built by Honda (enough said right there).  Mazda was named SUV of the year a few years back.  Toyota is still good, but IMO quality has suffered a bit lately.  Ford and Chevy should be easy cheap finds in this economy.

SOLD!

Thanks!

Quote from: Chinatown;50672:confused:Just curious, as to what all of us are shelling out each month.

(Please don't include introductory offerings)

We need a realistic dollar amount. OK?

Anyway............

I pay $82.00, thru Dish network

Hd Gold, & Platinum, 2 VIP receivers DVR service,  $.1cent Cinemax & locals ( the HD locals come via OTA on the roof.) and they have included the sd feeds for the RSN's. + At&T DSL Pro $35.00

Total: $117.00

Off-topic, but if you go to speedtest.net what kind of download speeds do you see with DSL Pro?  I've got the step below and have been thinking about the upgrade, but they can't guarantee any extra speed. :rolleyes:

With the exception being live sporting events, there is nothing I watch that isn't available for download online a few hours later.  Makes that almost $90 D* bill even worse.  The only reason I still have it is to appease the wife.

I'd be willing to sign, but I have no idea if it would have any effect on the locals.  They have their heads so far up there you know what and only care about the poor and downtrodden viewers that freak out over flurries or cold weather.

I've already boycotted 2 of our 4 major networks.  Anything shown on NBC or CBS gets downloaded (in full 1.2GB HD rips) and streamed to my PS3 in the living room.  I don't watch any programs on ABC (not a local issue, just no programming to my liking) so only FOX gets recorded to my DVR.  In my opinion, FOX has really toned down the over use of weather in recent months.  I think the last time I saw one of their reporters standing next to a snow pile was for the major storm early in December.