Receiving all local digital channels, including FOX 6, in Brookfield

[borghe]

technically in Kenosha you should also be able to get Chicago digitals...

here is my deal with your 6 channel thing you always use... I honestly believe you (and certainly not the Jefferson user) are not the average reader of this board.. This is afterall the MilwaukeeHDTV forum. Not trying to be mean or discriminatory, just obvious.

That being said, the average reader of this board probably lives in or damn near Milwaukee county, and probable can pick up 4, 10, 12, 36, and even 58 with an indoor antenna. Can probably pick up everything except for 6 with an outdoor antenna. So again I say to the "average" reader of this forum, if they get satellite they won't be limited to the 6 channels you keep claiming. The average reader will probably have access to more.

It bothers me because if someone reads your comments I wonder if they will just walk away with "Well hell, I'm not even going to try," which is a pretty silly notion to walk away with considering chances are that if they went out and bought a $20 antenna they coud have local HD without much trouble.

I get that you can't get local HD OTA. I get that you love what TWC has done for you when you had no other option. That's great. But the average user here doesn't live in Kenosha (or Jefferson) and generally iisn't limited to just six HD channels with DirecTV or Dish.

[gparris]

They cannot get HD channels from Directv, only with use of the ATSC tuner that comes with its integrated sat box.  As far as HDTV goes, I am assuming by 4, 10.12. etc.,  you mean the HD channels as this is, after all, the MilwaukeeHDTV, as in a HDTV forum, not the analogue forum.
As far as HD service goes, I will take my full-time iNHD 1 & 2 channels to the part-time HD channel ESPN-HD, anytime for $6.95 along with HDNET and HDNET Movies instead of the $10.99/month from the dish services.

Note: There is no "KenoshaHDTV forum", Milwaukee is not next door, but it is in SE Wisconsin, just like you are!;)

[sp44again]

Originally posted by gparris
As far as HD service goes, I will take my full-time iNHD 1 & 2 channels to the part-time HD channel ESPN-HD

I bet most people would rather have ESPN then iNHD. I also want to chime in on the upfront costs of purchasing and repurchasing DirecTV equipment. Ever hear of Ebay? I sell all my stuff and recoup usually more than what I need for the new box.

[summerfun]

Originally posted by sp44again
I bet most people would rather have ESPN then iNHD.

I would take that bet.

10% HD and 90% stretched SD on ESPN HD v.s. 2 channels of 100% HD 24/7 on INHD and INHD2.

If there is something that you want to watch on ESPN, you can always watch the SD version. Not that I ever do. I find the programming on INHD much more along the lines of what I want to watch. Any important sports are usually on regular network anyway IMO.

[sp44again]

Then why do people keep asking "when will TWC have ESPN HD".
To watch 10% in HD? I enjoyed watching local college basketball and NBA in HD on ESPN. I really don't care about baseball as do most people. I don't care either if a station broadcasts 100% HD 24/7 if it's not something I want to watch. That's like HDNet, mostly stuff I don't care to watch.

[summerfun]

Originally posted by sp44again
Then why do people keep asking "when will TWC have ESPN HD".

Becasue the question was not do you want ESPN HD but would you rather have it over INHD. The answer is NO for many people.

Also, those asking for it most likely do not know that ESPN HD is a joke with their very limited HD programing. It is a long stretch to call them an HD channel.

[Matt Heebner]

Sorry but just having one more HD football game a week is WELL worth having ESPN-HD. Being a football fanatic, I would rather have a station that does 10% HD programming with football being part of that 10%, than a station doing 90% HD with no football.

Thats just me though, and I will be the first to claim that I am not normal......:p


Matt

[summerfun]

Originally posted by Matt Heebner
Sorry but just having one more HD football game a week is WELL worth having ESPN-HD.

The point was not if we want ESPN HD. We do, the point was if you had to choose, between ESPN HD and INHD and could only have one, which one would most people choose.

ESPN HD is hardly an HD channel at all. INHD and INHD2 run HD 24/7 with all kinds of fantastic programming. If you don't have ESPN HD, it's not like your missing much, you can always watch ESPN SD. They are exactly the same 90% of the time.

If it's football or soccer or basketball or hockey or NASCAR or whatever, there is tons of it in HD on all the other networks. ESPN does not have a lock on sports. ESPN only covers a very small amount of the sports broadcast each week and even a smaller percentage of the HD sports being broadcast each week.

I will be glad when TWC gives us ESPN HD, but I would not trade INHD to get it, I want both and will have both soon.

[sp44again]

I just checked tonights INHD's schedule. What the heck do you watch on those channels that make it worth it? ESPN has the Stanley Cup playoffs, the NBA playoffs and Sunday Night Baseball. I don't consider that 10% HD. You keep saying 24/7 of fantastic programming. That's just saying that it has a whole lot of nothing special.

[summerfun]

Like you said before, it is all what you like to watch. I don't like sports and many people don't either. I will watch the packers, sometimes. I will watch the super bowl, and that is about it. I would much rather watch INHD, but that was the whole point of this string. What would people RATHER watch.

I don't listen to FM radio either, but I don't think I am alone in these opinions.