Recent content by jdbob

Looked in my filing cabinet and found a Radio Shack catalog from 1999. It even has the telephone I still use "200-memory speakerphone with alphanumric display"

No, that would be SES-3, which has been in orbit for quite a while now, waiting for NBC to get off their butt.

That sucks. Another failed broadcaster.

Just heard a promo on HD03 saying that the PBS Newshour will be going to 7 days a week starting September 7th.

Same here.

Thanks for the heads-up. Replaced the now defunct PressTV entry with KTV2.

The reason I do it is to add it to my home theater PC. I keep everything on an external 2TB drive. I recorded "Nova - Earth from Space" back in February which was 2 hours long so I bet the original was 20GB or so. I used Handbrake and compressed it down to 5GB before adding to my video...

I think Create was a blank screen for a while, but not the rest of the Mux.

That's too bad, it was an amusing channel.

I used one until the microHD came out. It won't do DVB-S2 so it's of limited use. I believe to get satellites into orbital position you first sort by satellite, then manually move them into longitude order.

Bad weather at PBS Networks Operations Center (Washington DC I think)? SD07 might have been uplinked from somewhere else in the country at the time.

PBS has election coverage starting at 5PM pacific time on HD01.

When I first got my microHD I looked for NBC on AMC1 but didn't get anything, and the pier-cam wasn't very interesting:) I did a blind scan last night and a bunch of NBC channels were found. NBC Mountain, NBC West, and a bunch of occasionals. I don't think I changed anything here. Does that...

It's not like PBS shows action movies :) I noticed the Motorweek has 5.1 sound, really? Motorweek? Why? There was a Ken Burns show about WWII with 5.1 sound. It was pretty weird watching real black and white footage with studio produced machine gun fire and mortar explosions.

Out of curiosity I asked someone at Oregon Public Broadcasting why they only broadcast 2.0 audio for programs that are now 5.1 after the AMC-21 changeover to MPEG4: "We do not pass Dolby 5.1 audio. We have equipment limitations at our main studios in Portland so we cannot send out 5.1 audio...