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    Amazing musical moment this week / Eurythmics re-united this week for live performance in NYC / LINKS

    For any 80's lovers and music lovers a big surprise this week was Eurythmics (Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart) RE-United for a chartiy gig on a all star bill in NYC. Audience recordings captured the incredible 3 song (all huge US chart hits) performance of Eurythmics. She sounds amazing and with...
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    Possibly next year Smart Phone with 8K HDR (Dolby Vision HDR) from Samsung / New 8K video chip / News Story LINK

    Saw this amazing news. Possibly the next Samsung Galaxy will have 8K Dolby Vision HDR video recording. Qualcomm has a new 8K chip...
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    4K HDR NBA Bucks game / Review

    Was able to catch the 4K NBA HDR Bucks game the other night. The DTV schedule press article of upcoming games showed it was supposed to be the Pistons but that was wrong. And DTV website guide for the 4k channel 105 didn't even have a game listed. So nobody is on top of that at DTV. Even the...
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    8K Olympics news link

    Looks like LG has a 88" 8K OLED TV out in Japan and S. Korea in time for next years Olympics. And a big 8K push appears to be happening over there. https://advanced-television.com/2019/12/11/lg-goes-large-on-8k-tvs/ Not under $1,000 unfortunately. Wish this was happening here. Can only...
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    Dec. 4k sports schedule / the various tv providers LINK

    The good folks at AVS Forum posted a PDF LINK for the upcomings 4K sports for December on the various tv providers. https://www.avsforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2647344&d=1575076599 You can download or just view with your browser. bjf
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    good promo if you wanted CBS All Access streaming / info

    Two good promotions are going on now that I came across. The college and pro sports board 247sports.com is giving VIP membership for $2.00 for two months on a promo. All the teams have their own forums on the site. After joining they are giving you a free membership to CBS All Access...
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    AT&T DTV Strikes again / Screwed up many Fox Sports Networks with loop hiccup stutter / It's back working again

    Just watching postgame shows for NBA on various Fox Sports Nets on DTV. All of a sudden it's stuck in a hiccup loop of a split second. Never has seen anything like this with DTV all many if not all the Fox Sports Nets at the same time. Like a light switch just turned on and they all got stuck...
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    So how did the NBA 4k HDR look? / anyone catch the Clippers / Mavs game tonight

    Just curious how tonights first NBA 4k HDR game looked. Clippers vs. Mavs. Did the HDR make a big improvement in a controlled indoor arena? bjf
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    AT&T TV going to offer Ad free NBA games

    In searching for details on NBA 4k news I came across this other NBA news. https://www.fiercevideo.com/operators/at-t-offers-ad-free-nba-games-for-people-who-switch-to-at-t-tv AT&T TV is offering Ad free NBA games. Looks like exclusive to ATTTV to get customers. bjf
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    NCAA Notre Dame game 4k HDR today / review

    Caught todays 4k HDR football game Notre Dame. First time I've seen the NBC produced games. Nothing to write home about. Close ups were nice. Wide shots poor. The HDR was only a tiny bit better. Pretty disappointed. Viewed on Sony OLED 77". This 1080P HDR while better than regular HD is...
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    JLTV Jewish TV has a new number 325-1 / old Groucho game show and Jack Benny show

    Looks like DTV moved the Jewish channel JLTV to another number 325-1. They show old reruns of Groucho's game show and Jack Benny late night and Bonanza too. This info wasn't even on the JLTV site. No idea why the change. bjf
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    NFL 4k Colts v. Texans - picture

    Caught the 4k HDR NFL game Colts - Texans. Same old story about picture artifacts and pixelaton doing slo-mo replays and poor picture especially during the replays and slo-mo. But the HDR was nice to see. Not great but better than SDR. The white uniforms were much toned down with HDR and...
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    Are CBS / NBC /ABC important anymore? / Lacking coverage of Impeachment Hearings makes me wonder

    I was really surprised in flipping channels for the Impeachment Hearings that CBS / NBC / ABC did not have full coverage of the live Impeachment Hearings. Not that you couldn't find it elsewhere. But for those Americans with nothing but broadcast TV and an antenna this might have been their...
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    Need help / Program TV on RC66RX remote / ATT support worthless

    Got a new remote for my HR24. Put in new batteries. The RC66RX remote. Used in IR mode. The old style white top remote with the four color buttons in the middle. Programmed the box no prob. Tried to program TV and can't get it programmed. Called DTV three times today they failed and were too...
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    News story LINK /HBO Max, WarnerMedia's streaming launching in May for $14.99 a month

    ATT news story from today. bjf HBO Max, WarnerMedia's new streaming service, is launching in May for $14.99 a month HBO Max, WarnerMedia's new streaming service, is launching in May for $14.99 a month - CNN
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    More AT&T news story today / Streaming HBO Max

    More ATT news today about the HBO Max Streaming. With HBO Max, AT&T is launching a streaming service that 'a lot of people said couldn't be done' - CNN
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    AT&T New story today Link / Big changes are coming to AT&T after shareholder battle

    AT&T news story today. AT&T agrees to a deal with activist shareholder Elliott Management - CNN
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    Fox using an 8K camera at World Series / Wonder why? / We only get HD

    Smoltz just pointed out on Fox, that a camera with cameraman was an 8K camera. Since Fox is only giving the USA nothing but good ole cheap HD and nothing better. Wonder what the use is for. For just digitally zooming in more and selective cropping like ESPN did with 4k camera's the past...
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    A fun youtube link / Early 1970's Reel to Reel videos (pre-beta / vhs) transfered & on youtube

    Since I posted the future with 8K and 16K. I thought I'd share this very cool youtube site I found. Before beta and Vhs this was the consumer Reel to Reel video recorder format. This guy has loads of these old tapes and is transferring them digitally save and share. It's like being a time...
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    Japan 8K and even 16K 120 fps news story / Very interesting read

    Saw this Japan 8K news story from last December. They even have demo'ed 16K 120 frame per second tv. 8K is now being broadcast in Japan - Newsshooter They are so far ahead of us. Wonder if and when DTV will have it. Or if DTV will even be around if it ever does arrive in the states. bjf
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    Comcast NBC 4k HDR college football / News article

    Saw this news article. I was not aware that NBC was doing any 4k sports until I saw a grid of 4k sports and saw the Notre Dame game. Which a poster here mentioned it was one of four games 10/12 on DTV. In searching it appears Comcast is now in the game of 4k HDR live sports. Here's a news...
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    Did Directv show SDR or HDR 4k of the Notre Dame game 10/12

    Curious if the NBC4k Notre Dame game on 10/12 was in SDR or HDR. I saw the Xfiniity website shows they were offering it both ways to their customers. 4K Ultra HD (UHD) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) on Xfinity TV – Xfinity What did Directv do? I think I saw one poster who said they watched all...
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    4k NFL game 10/10 review / FUBOTV & APPLE TV 4k brief review

    Not sure how many watched yesterdays NFL game in 4k / HDR (1080P upconvert). So I joined FUBOTV for a week trial for both 4k and the various sports channels. A few good things and lots of bad with FUBOTV. The article a week back said it wouldn't work with AppleTV in 4k. But that is now fixed...
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    4k news / interesting NBA

    Saw this 4k news from the NBA. The Bucks are installing 38 5K cameras in a 360degree circle at their arena. So lots of hi-res game coverage and replays in better than 4k. The Milwaukee Bucks will be able to show 360-degree replays with Intel's latest 3D, 360-degree video system – Milwaukee...
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    Dish / NBC Sports Net Chicago is now history on dish

    Dish decided to dump NBC Sports Net Chicago recently. I went to watch the Bears postgame and the channel is gone. Thanks DISH!!!! So dish brings back Fox channels and takes another one away. So for Bears fans tough luck. No pre-game or postgame for you. Probably hockey too. bjf