Recent content by Dino

Is this related to Detroit being the HD LIL test market...?

I've seen this misconception a few times, so let me humbly correct it. A caller ID alert is superimposed over the image being sent to the television; it is not necessary or useful to superimpose the alert over the internal image. That internal image is going directly onto the hard drive with...

Hancox, you should be able to fix the stretching on 480i as well. I am not familiar with the H10, so I don't know the exact setting, but look for a video setting for 'fullscreen' (that is, 480i) signal viewing that sets the receiver to use 'pillar box'. This puts black bars on the left and...

Warning: rank speculation ahead! I think the reason the YESHD game looked so great (and I agree, it did; also, I agree there were a lot of audio sync problems) is BANDWIDTH. I speculate that DirecTV gave as much bandwidth as they could to the YESHD telecast because it was MLB Extra Innings...

What?!? Y'all don't use the skip feature? I use the 30-second skip ALL THE TIME! Combining the 30-forward and 8-back gets me through commercial breaks so easily that I probably watch only 5% or fewer commercials than I used to watch. Using the fast-forward just isn't as convenient or...

Even if you add in the outdoor antenna, your current cable situation (two cables, I assume from the dish to the viewing room) will work. The OTA signal can be mixed in to one of the satellite cables and un-mixed at the receiver. This is called multiplexing and demultiplexing. It's done with...

This is what I suspected and wanted to hear-- that the original source is higher quality than anything we see, then converted to MPEG2 at whatever squeezed rate the accountants tell the providers will make for the most subscribers. If this is the case, then it is perfectly possible for the...

That's an excellent point, colofan-- MPEG4 is has much higher processing demand than MPEG2, both for encoding and decoding, which is one of the reasons it has been adopted somewhat slowly. I would think the chances of artifacting in live, high-motion video would be increased with MPEG4...

MPEG4 really does offer the same quality at half the size (or less!). I don't have any quick links for comparisons, but I do occasionally watch large video files from the internet, and here's an example: A typical 45 minute video file in NTSC format (standard definition) encoded in SVCD...

95% your dish is poorly aimed. We always lose ESPNHD first when this happens. Get the dish realigned, by a professional if necessary. --Dino

I shouldn't jump in on this since I live no where near you, but I have heard multiple times from people in the NYC area that a set-top antenna like the Zenith Silver Sensor will get ALL the local channels in the NYC area. Of course, this will be affected by tall buildings, hills, walls, etc...

Now to once again reveal myself as the rabid Duke fan of the board and get ribbed... Yeah, Duke and UNC is about as big as in-season college basketball gets, but ESPN won't have it in HD. Yet they will have Duke and Maryland in HD on Saturday... huh? ESPN's criteria for 'blessing' an...

Barney-- I'm also in the Heart of Texas, in Austin. You're getting UPN OTA? I have never received UPN digital, and didn't think anyone here could, what with the station being in Fredricksburg. Please elaborate. (Sorry, folks, if I'm pulling this thread off-topic.) Thanks, --Dino

Congratulations! All of us here in Austin are exasperated with FOX7 for broadcasting its OTA digital signal at this ridiculously low wattage. Thankfully, they are O&O, so we can, as you did, get the national feed. I can't believe it took the CSRs so long to get that right for you! --Dino

slacker is right about HD Tivo not doing native resolution as long as you agree to the definition of 'native resolution'; let's have a semantic debate! More often and perhaps (no offense, slacker) more accurately referred to as 'native pass-through', 'native resolution' is a setting that...