WFMZ TV 69 News is now in High Def starting May 1, 2008. WFMZ's studios have been updated and all newscasts are now in HD. The WFMZ 69's HD channel is carried on Service Electric Cable TV channel 508 and broadcast over the air on channel 69.3 in the greater Allentown, Stroudsburg, Reading, L Valley areas. No word yet on when Comcast, Blue Ridge, RCN, or Direc TV will pick up WFMZ 69's HD channel. More info on the station's website. Has anyone watched the HD newscast yet? How does it look?
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WFMZ 69 News now in HD
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I saw the newscast last night from Abingon PA with my off air antenna. I really got a chuckle. All of the field reports were in standard definition. The only high def. pix were the news anchor even when they went to weather it was not in HD till the weatherman returned to the anchor desk. Even if it were for bragging rights they can say they beat NBC10.
It reminds me of when I was a kid and ch. 3 was the first to have a color newacast (Vince Leonard) and channel 6 went out a bought 1 color camera.(Gunner Back with the news). We were the first family on the block to get a "color" TV it had a round picture tube. Channel 3 provided a decent "color" picture with 2 camera coverage. Channel 6 on the other hand never seemed to get the color right. Gunner Back always had an orange face. At the time RCA made the only color broadcast camera's It must have been difficult for them to buy the one camera because at the time ch. 3 was NBC owned and RCA was the parent company of Ch. 3. A camera back then must have cost close to $200,000.00 in the mid-late fifties, that had to be a huge cost for 1 camera considering what the news buget must have been.
It reminds me of when I was a kid and ch. 3 was the first to have a color newacast (Vince Leonard) and channel 6 went out a bought 1 color camera.(Gunner Back with the news). We were the first family on the block to get a "color" TV it had a round picture tube. Channel 3 provided a decent "color" picture with 2 camera coverage. Channel 6 on the other hand never seemed to get the color right. Gunner Back always had an orange face. At the time RCA made the only color broadcast camera's It must have been difficult for them to buy the one camera because at the time ch. 3 was NBC owned and RCA was the parent company of Ch. 3. A camera back then must have cost close to $200,000.00 in the mid-late fifties, that had to be a huge cost for 1 camera considering what the news buget must have been.
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I know they purchased new field cameras, but I have no idea if they began using them. Also their live trucks are capable of sending HD signals out. I'm guessing hi-def field reports will be phased in at a later date.
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