NASA HD on AMC9 KU

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Magic Static

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Yeah I caught the shuttle docking last weekend. Too bad it's not really HD. Had the HD logo but not the real McCoy
 

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I spoke to soon here. I was watching that feed on Galaxy 28 last weekend. This is different and showing 720x480
 

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Well if it's 720x480 it's just widescreen SD. Is it a real downscaled copy of the HD program, or is it stretch-o-vision?
 

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The "real" HD channel on AMC-3 C-Band (HQ-105) is a high definition version of the NASA-TV public channel (HQ-1), which is the channel available on pay services such as Dish and DTV. HQ-105 is 720p, however, much of the video shown is upconverted and pillarboxed. The HD channel was a part-time feed channel until somewhat recently.

Apparently, the "HD" channel on Ku-Band is a downconversion of the AMC-3 HD channel.
 
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ppcblaster

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Langsat does not show

NASA HD on AMC9 KU 83.0 W
Channel AMC-9/3-F
TP 11774 H
4232 5/6
NASA HD

maybe I have wrong sat.
 

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Langsat does not show NASA HD on AMC9 KU 83.0 W Channel AMC-9/3-F TP 11774 H 4232 5/6 NASA HD maybe I have wrong sat.
AMC9K/3F is a NBC news feed channel in SD resolution. NBC was rebroadcasting NASA HD for whatever event happened at the time the OP made this thread. NASA only uses Ku-band occasionally to feed the NASA HD channel for some events where the video can't be transported by NASA LAN to the master control/uplink. The full-time service is on c-band with public and media in HD and the museum channel in sd that also doubles as a feeder to cable and dbs who carry only the SD feed.
 

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Cool. Thats normally just color bars so its nice to see stuff on there ;)

Lol Tony thats what i was talking about as "power user" in my other post, you didnt even have to think twice to know what was one that bird and TP hehe

i wish my house had a better view of the arc
 

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that transponder I've used to aim a dish at 83W since RTV can be finicky

thats what I used to aim my "portable dish" on Friday....ironically that transponder wasnt there Saturday as 2 college football games took up the whole transponder (11760-11780) where those news feeds usually reside...but that's what I was aiming for ;)
 
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