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I get signals from 30 miles away, line of sight, with a Terk HDTVa (amplified). They are mostly duplicates of the stuff from the main towers in the opposite direction, so I don't pay much attention to them. But they can be tuned, and occasionally even come in off the back end of my antenna in...

I will have a dozen analog stations remaining, mostly boosters. But analog isn't dead in the NW. And with those newly vacated frequencies, there may be a few more analog stations in the works.

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There is a menu item for updates, and the idea was that the firmware would be carried in the PSIP data from CBS (we thought). But it would be a service provided to a manufacturer, and it would of course cost them money to arrange it. I don't expect we will ever see such an update for the...

I saw Adelstein's tv interview in New Mexico online about a week ago. He said he was there because "it turns out" that NM has the highest population unready. To begin with, the estimates are based on households, not people, and I'm pretty sure he meant to say the highest percent, not the...

Actually, the data show the opposite, and have for months. People who write the articles simply don't bother to look at the facts before they pull up "old" and "poor" as the worst groups. The general population is 3.1% totally unready, the over 55 age population is 1.7% unready. And that's...

If PBS is any indication, they can't. I hope they match their reputation for being late.

If you don't count the premature late 2007 announcement, late last year ION announced they'd be starting with ~20 DMAS on Feb 16, 2009, but with the transition delay they pushed it out a month, and it actually ahowed up a bit later than that. I think the plan was to expand to other DMAS by year...

The AVS forum thread on the DVPal DVR had a status update recently, that firmware would be out mid April to resolve the recording sequencing issues and the freezes and a few unnamed other things, and that Dish would resume selling the DVR in May. Since you have an HD capable TV, that would seem...

Back when I cared about Comcast, I'd heard that in the East, Comcast was interpreting clear channel requirements as applying only to analog signals, and had started encrypting local HD. People speculated that it was their test case to see if they got away with it. In the NW, they are putting...

So why is it so hard for people to learn about HDTV? I agree, the biggest sale killer is what you see in the store. They have a string of TVs priced from $400 to $8000, and they all look alike with settings tweaked to the maximum and tuned to SD programming. Plasma sets are placed sideways...

Lo-VHF isn't entirely going away, it will still be in use by 40 full power stations. Knowing the real frequency can be useful for those with indoor antennas. You don't want to be fussing with rabbit ears if 6.1 is transmitting on UHF. If you're buying a new antenna, it doesn't hurt to...

On the digital interference with analog, just an added point: when I'm in analog mode and stop at a digital channel, the screen flickers as it tries to interpret the signal, presumably the analog content transmitted at that frequency. I can tell it's a digital because the screen flickers in a...

Thanks for the explanations. I wasn't being scientific in terms of researching the science, just basing it on my two least stable digital stations. They are from the same antenna farm as my other stations, comparable power and all strong 1 edge signals. But the digital versions often have...

If it interferes with analog signals still broadcasting, they won't be able to go to full power. I have four stations changing frequency, three involve shutting down their own analog. It surprised me that the only station I've heard about so far is not one of the four. KOIN (CBS) is on the...

6.5 million unready, and nearly 13 million coupons still active or about to be mailed out. If Congress wanted to micromanage this process, they should have started a year ago.

Today the House Energy & Commerce committee was supposed to mark up the Waxman bill to delay the DTV transition to June 12, but the discussion was postponed. Waxman still insists it's necessary to delay it. "I have postponed Committee consideration of the DTV markup to give the Committee more...

If you decide to get a second digital tuner to watch and record at the same time, it's better to get a different brand so you don't have remote control conflicts. If you have SVid connections for your analog TV, something like a CM7000 is a nice CECB. It doesn't have analog pass through, but...

Interesting points on both sides. I can see one argument in favor of the locals. In watching xx.1 OTA, you might also watch xx.2 and thus the local stations has a chance to capture larger revenue in advertising, beyond xx.1. They effectively lose that opportunity when pay tv broadcasts only...

A long, long time ago when they delayed the TR-40/DTVPal from March to June, they said the TR-50 would be September. The TR-40/DTVPal did come out in June, but it took a month to debug the primary timer issues. I don't know if that has pushed out the TR-50 date, but I don't think they are beta...

I haven't tried it, but you could see if renaming them changes the order within the guide. I think David Zatz answered this question, but I can't remember if it did or not.

I got my TR-40 today. I set the timers, got the guide download at the next power up, and everything is fine re timers and channels as I set them. I'm going to let it sit on standby for another 3 hours and look again, but the disappearing/changing events -- I got none of that.

Thanks for the update!! I see 2.1, 6.1, and 32.1 are all off the air today, with no obvious notice on their websites.

I'm just dreaming that I can make an informed decision before spending my last coupon. It's not going to happen. This whole program has been sucked up into an informatoin vacuum. It is not just Dish, nobody is talking about the what, when, and where of their products. I almost wish I had...

Huh? It went through FCC and NTIA approval and it's just for record keeping? This whole CECB thing is so not marketing-oriented.