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  1. Dino

    michigan satellite installers needed statewide

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

    Does the Directv HD Tivo have Caller ID feature ?

    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...
  3. Dino

    H10 receiver and Channel 73 (ESPN HD) resolution

    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...
  4. Dino

    FreeView of MLB Extra Inning on DirecTv (Including HD games) July 14- July 18

    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...
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    Do you use the 30 second skip?

    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...
  6. Dino

    Thinking of upgrading to the HD TIVO. Opinions?

    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...
  7. Dino

    D* compression

    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...
  8. Dino

    D* compression

    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...
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    D* compression

    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...
  10. Dino

    HD Channel Locations

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

    Local HD without OTA antenna

    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...
  12. Dino

    Espn-hd

    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...
  13. Dino

    Compression, HD, SpaceWay & MPEG4 ... tired of speculation

    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
  14. Dino

    Directv: No Fox HD in Austin.

    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
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    FOX broadcasting Superbowl in 720

    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...
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    FOX broadcasting Superbowl in 720

    I agree with TOS Enterprise; the easiest way is to set the receiver to always output what the TV displays natively. I do this with my Samsung DLP (native 720p) and HTL-HD. However, some will argue that you get better quality outputting the original signal unconverted and letting your display...
  17. Dino

    HDMI to DVI

    You are correct that the HDMI on the TV can input sound; you are also correct that the DVI, connected to the receiver, does not supply any sound for the HDMI input to take in (DVI never connects sound). You will need a separate audio connection, and it sounds like you have one (stereo RCA...
  18. Dino

    Discussion of D*s upcoming conversion to MPEG 4

    Check the source city for the locals you get now. That's your DMA. --Dino
  19. Dino

    New DirecTV Channel Wish List

    I like your list, dlma1 (although I would add ESPN2HD), particularly HBO Comedy, which I had with cable. --Dino
  20. Dino

    Question about HDMI and audio

    These folks are right, Rubes, the problem is digital information in the form of headers or garbled packets or other extraneous information that can get transmitted to the audio receiver (in your case, the audio receiver built in to your TV) when changing signals, i.e. changing channels. When...
  21. Dino

    Espn2 Hd??

    alta -- too right, and that hurts! Sharpie -- also right; #1 is #1 ...and yeah, Tilt will premiere on ESPN in HD tonight, right after the Duke / N.C. State game (at around 9:00 p.m. ET (actually, they're airing Tilt twice, back-to-back)). I believe I'll watch it, it looks interesting...
  22. Dino

    Just ordered my Hughes HR10-250

    I've had my HTL-HD for about a month now, and thought about giving feedback myself, but dgordo covered it: great unit, love it, slow menu and that's my only complaint. However, I noticed that this is your first Tivo; mine is also my first, and is in fact my first PVR, so let me expound on that...
  23. Dino

    Espn2 Hd??

    HAW HAW! I don't want to take this thread off topic, but thanks for the great laughs, folks. I don't like using these things, but to make sure you all know that my good humor is sincere: :) :) :) By the way, I am a UT Longhorn in all things non-basketball since that's my Alma Mater, but...
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    Espn2 Hd??

    For anyone who is interested, ESPN has moved their Duke @ N.C. State (Thursday Jan 13 7:00 p.m. ET) game from ESPN2 back to ESPN. It was originally scheduled to air on ESPN, and then they announced ESPN2 was coming, and suddenly it was moved to ESPN2, where it would be in high definition on...
  25. Dino

    Hd Pq

    1) DVI is better quality than component, because DVI is digital and component is analog, although most of us, I think, admit that we can't really see the difference. 2) If you are getting a clear picture, a 'better' DVI cable will not help, again because DVI is digital. High-end component...