It seems like Charter cable made a change to our off-the-air analog stations. Starting Friday, I noticed that a few of the non-digital channels were pixelating, especially KCAL and KTTV. The picture quality seemed a little better as well, even on our non-HDTV set. So i'm assuming that the are down converting the digital channels to analog in anticipation of the July shut off. However, when I was watching Fox this weekend, the digital channel has a "FOX11 KTTV Los Angeles" logo on the botton right (the non dt channel just has "FOX" logo). I assume that if they are down converting digital to analog, it would be the same. However, it is still showing the"FOX" logo on the analog channel. Yet, the analog channel's picture is breaking up like it's digital. So I'm confused....
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I don't get this about my cable...
- Thread starter Neel
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In Chicago, on the analog side of cable, WBBM (CBS) and WMAQ(NBC) are horrible whenever it's local. The picture looks like I am trying to pick it up over the air from 50+ miles away. But when WBBM or WMAQ go to a network show like the NBC Nightly News the picture is fine again.
So at Comcast in Chicago, something is up with the analog cable side for broadcasts that are local origination
So at Comcast in Chicago, something is up with the analog cable side for broadcasts that are local origination
In Chicago, on the analog side of cable, WBBM (CBS) and WMAQ(NBC) are horrible whenever it's local. The picture looks like I am trying to pick it up over the air from 50+ miles away. But when WBBM or WMAQ go to a network show like the NBC Nightly News the picture is fine again.
So at Comcast in Chicago, something is up with the analog cable side for broadcasts that are local origination
So at Comcast in Chicago, something is up with the analog cable side for broadcasts that are local origination
You still buy into cable? What for?. Since most of the shows I still watch are posted on legitimate websites 24-72 hours after the original airdate. Or I wait for the DVD box set to come out.
If a TV station(s) stream online I used winamp to watch it on my HDTV. Since my HDTV have one VGA and two HDMI ports and I used an DVI to HDMI cable for my Mac Mini and have Windows XP SP3 installed for netflix, winamp and a few other apps that aren't availible for OS X. I do have an antenna array connected to the tuner. Plus I have a DIVIX support HDMI support standard DVD player for DIVIX discs.
I can watch shows on my time and don't have to pay for Time Warner Cable.
If a TV station(s) stream online I used winamp to watch it on my HDTV. Since my HDTV have one VGA and two HDMI ports and I used an DVI to HDMI cable for my Mac Mini and have Windows XP SP3 installed for netflix, winamp and a few other apps that aren't availible for OS X. I do have an antenna array connected to the tuner. Plus I have a DIVIX support HDMI support standard DVD player for DIVIX discs.
I can watch shows on my time and don't have to pay for Time Warner Cable.
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FreddyE1977
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In my market, the Fox and MyTV affiliates have both switched-off their analog signals.
Cable and dish are obviously now relaying a digital signal. However, since the switch
all of the Fox programming appears only in a letterboxed format, as the new 16:9 aspect picture is being displayed in 4:3. But the MyTV is still in full-screen standard 4:3. I checked it out with rabbit ears and a converter, and the MyTV affiliate is running a 4:3 standard def simulcast of their HD signal on the HD2 channel. Is this happening in any other markets? Some of the Fox programming is pretty difficult to watch now in letterbox format on smaller screen sets.
Cable and dish are obviously now relaying a digital signal. However, since the switch
all of the Fox programming appears only in a letterboxed format, as the new 16:9 aspect picture is being displayed in 4:3. But the MyTV is still in full-screen standard 4:3. I checked it out with rabbit ears and a converter, and the MyTV affiliate is running a 4:3 standard def simulcast of their HD signal on the HD2 channel. Is this happening in any other markets? Some of the Fox programming is pretty difficult to watch now in letterbox format on smaller screen sets.
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kenrayc
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In my market the my station KAIL 7 and Fox station KMPH 26 carry a 4:3 480i version on one of there secondary channels for the propose to send to cable system for analog cable.
The other stations in my market don't do that. This feed is mainly for the outline cities that are not served by Comcast, because the network affiliates are feed directly to Comcast Fresno/ Visalia/ Hanford/ Tulare.
The other stations in my market don't do that. This feed is mainly for the outline cities that are not served by Comcast, because the network affiliates are feed directly to Comcast Fresno/ Visalia/ Hanford/ Tulare.
In Burlington, Vermont, WFFF, the local Fox affiliate, is apparently broadcasting in widescreen only. But on a recent trip to Quebec, I noticed that the Videotron systems in Montreal and Quebec City, and the Cogeco system in Trois-Rivieres, all cut off the ends of the picture. All good, except that material seen in widescreen, including WFFF's newscast, have some of their graphics cut off, since the station no longer employs a "safe area" for regular screens.
Anyone know how Comcast, Charter and Time Warner is treating WFFF?
Anyone know how Comcast, Charter and Time Warner is treating WFFF?
Time Warner has never given me a problem in the three and a half months I've had it, except the PBS station froze one night when there were thunderstorms in the area, and I taped 30 minutes of a still of a big band.
If I had known, I could have gone to the one analog TV I'm still using. The alternate PBS station usually comes in pretty well in bad weather.
Okay, there is one thing. I can always count on the CBS station to go off the air for five seconds or so during "Big Bang Theory", or, in one case, the sound was almost too soft to hear except for the audience laughter for about five seconds.
A neighboring system had all pictures freeze for an hour or so, but mine only froze for five seconds, during "Two and a Half Men".
I don't think the picture is quite as perfect as I was expecting, but it's better than analog stations with an antenna. I do notice some colors show up fuzzy and even some boundaries between colors vibrate. But it's better than before and I don't pay that much.
If I had known, I could have gone to the one analog TV I'm still using. The alternate PBS station usually comes in pretty well in bad weather.
Okay, there is one thing. I can always count on the CBS station to go off the air for five seconds or so during "Big Bang Theory", or, in one case, the sound was almost too soft to hear except for the audience laughter for about five seconds.
A neighboring system had all pictures freeze for an hour or so, but mine only froze for five seconds, during "Two and a Half Men".
I don't think the picture is quite as perfect as I was expecting, but it's better than analog stations with an antenna. I do notice some colors show up fuzzy and even some boundaries between colors vibrate. But it's better than before and I don't pay that much.
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