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Cox OKC announces: 729 TNT HD tomorrow and 713 OETA HD soon

Posted By: hdtver on April 5, 2006

Today’s mail included a flyer from Cox OKC announcing that starting tomorrow, 06 April, TNT HD will launch on Cox Channel 729 and 713 will launch OETA HD “coming soon.” Since no one who frequents this site has been able to get a start answer from OETA, who knows when “coming soon” launch date will [...]

Categorized as: Oklahoma City | 11 Comments

New website presents overview of Cox\’s ongoing digital transition plans

Posted By: hdtver on January 24, 2006

The site is www.digitalstraighttalk.com The digital transition rollout covers from now until 2010. You can click on the podcasts button and listen to Chris Bowick, Chief Technical Officer and Dallas Clement, Senior VP of Strategy & Development give 30 minute overviews of their part of the plans. Dallas mentions in passing that they are doing [...]

Categorized as: Programming | 2 Comments

Move over HDTV. Now there is HD Radio too

Posted By: hdtver on January 23, 2006

Several of us have, in the past, expressed interest in the development of HD Radio. Did you know there are 12 HD radio licensed stations within Oklahoma? (9 FM of which 7 are on the air but not multicasting and 3 AM of which one is on the air but not multicasting, according the the [...]

Categorized as: Equipment | 2 Comments

Cox launching MHD, Music: High Definition on January 16th

Posted By: hdtver on December 22, 2005

My Cox bill arrived today with the following announcement in the “What’s New From Cox” section: Effective January 16th, Cox Communication will launch MHD, Music: High Definition. MDH brings programming from some of your favorite music channels: MTV, CMT, and VH1. MHD will be available on high definition channel 739. I wonder if this is [...]

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1080p HDTVs are now available some places

Posted By: hdtver on August 15, 2005

Over the weekend I visited the Crutchfield site and found this short list of 1080p LDP HDTVs you can get now or reserve because the model is temporarily “out of stock.” There have been a couple threads started on the 1080p HDTVs from Mitsubishi, so this is a follow-up to those postings.

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Is someone beating HD-DVD and Blu-Ray to the punch?

Posted By: hdtver on April 25, 2005

There is an article in today’s online edition of the Washington Post claiming that the Japense vendor I-O Data’s (www.iodata.com/usa) A VeL LinkPlayer2 can play two HD formats from a DVD (DivX and MS WMV HD www.divx.com and www.wmvhd.com.)http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11116-2005Apr23?language=printer and you can get it for $250. Free software provided by the DivX folks for spanning [...]

Categorized as: HD-DVD | 1 Comment

Updated Informal survey of Cox HD and DVR offerings around the country

Posted By: hdtver on February 16, 2005

Here is what I found on the various Cox websites during a quick review Tuesday evening. I did this last year and thought it was time to a quick look see to see how things had changed throughout the Cox system. I did note a great variation from city to city on the detail of [...]

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Another SD DTV channel joins the multi-casting bandwagon

Posted By: hdtver on February 13, 2005

Saturday I ran thru the OTA DTV channels and discovered OKC’s KTBO-DT was registering 14.01, 14.02, 14.03 and 14.04. Sunday they are listing different programs for each subchannel except 14.04 but they are obvious still in shake down mode because some of the subchannels are not working properly. So now, in OKC, we have two [...]

Categorized as: Oklahoma City | 1 Comment

HiDefSooner’s VHF DTV Reception Solution works for Mid-town OKCity too.

Posted By: hdtver on January 30, 2005

Downtown sections of larger cities are notorious for reception problems. I am located in the Mesta Park Neighborhood, which is north of downtown so you would think DTV would be no problem. WRONG! This old house has always been a reception headache for analog TV, FM radio and now DTV reception. My attic (two story [...]

Categorized as: Equipment | 2 Comments

Microsoft Windows Media Video High-Definition (WMVHD)

Posted By: hdtver on December 6, 2004

The latest addition to my collection of IMAX films on DVD is MacGillivray Freeman’s Coral Reef Adventure (Image Entertainment). When I opened the case I discovered the second disk was labelled “Presented in Windows Media Video High-Definition (WMVHD) for your Windows XP PC.” My computer runs on Windows 2000 Professional and does not have a [...]

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Not Just Another Shopper\’s Survival Guide to Buying a HDTV Set

Posted By: hdtver on November 23, 2004

These sorts of articles are old news for many long timers at HDTVOK.COM because so many of them are heavy on fluff and weak on susbtance. No so with this recent article (November 23, 2004) from Business Week Online: HDTV: A Shopper’s Survival Guide Business Week This one strikes me as a useful reference to [...]

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Titan TV dot com does it again

Posted By: hdtver on November 11, 2004

If you visit www.titantv.com/ today you will see 24 hour programming listed for KETA-DT. I called OETA here in OKC and got a “Huh?” type response. I was forwarded to the engineering dept and they could come up with no good reason for Titan TV to be running a 24 hour schedule of programming for [...]

Categorized as: Oklahoma City | 1 Comment

Cox OKC is \”testing\” again.

Posted By: hdtver on November 10, 2004

Last night I noticed that Cox in OKC was listing channel 750 as “Test” again. Since the recently posted news release about Bravo HD+ getting a name change and the new “Universal” rolling out on December first and Cox being on the list of cable providers who will carry the new channel, I called and [...]

Categorized as: Oklahoma City | 1 Comment

HDPPV now on Cox OKC

Posted By: hdtver on July 29, 2004

Channel 760 “HDPPV” showed up on the Menu screen of Cox Cable OKC today. This had been predicted in an earlier thread by one of our members. So far no content is listed.

Categorized as: Oklahoma City | 1 Comment

WB has a national Hi Def Feedback conversation with viewers?

Posted By: hdtver on July 10, 2004

This is different. The WB station in Los Angeles, KTLA (www.ktla.com/) has a portion of its website devoted to questions about WB HDTV programming with one catch: all sorts of questions from viewers around the country about WB programming in HD and about local stations are listed but there are no answers or thread comments [...]

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