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DirecTV to start 3D Broadcasts in June

Posted by: Kevin Sherrard on January 6th, 2010

DirecTV and Panasonic announced a partnership to start broadcasting 3D channels starting in June. DirecTV HD receivers will receive an update so that the 3D picture and can seen on 3D compatible HDTVs. You will also need a pair of active-shutter glasses.

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KOCO-DT KSWO Channel 7 Post DTV Transition

Posted by: Kevin Sherrard on February 18th, 2009

Now that KSWO has vacated channel 7 at midnight last night, has anyone noticed any change in the KOCO-DT reception? Has it got better, worse, or the same? Take a look at your DTV signal strength meter if you have one on your equipment.

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Turn a Dish ViP211 receiver into a DVR for $40 and a cheap hard drive

Posted by: Dennis Whiteman on November 26th, 2008

Last night, I took advantage of a new feature offered by Dish Network to turn a ViP211 receiver into a DVR by plugging a external hard drive into my receiver and then calling Dish to activate.

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Rocky Road for DTV Tuners

Posted by: Kevin Sherrard on July 26th, 2008

Well here it comes the first wave of probably many articles coming out about people having negative experiences with DTV tuners. I bought one of these to $49 DTV tuners at Walmart we will see how it stacks up.
READ

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Magnavox Blu-Ray Player at Wal-Mart

Posted by: Kevin Sherrard on June 20th, 2008

I was at Wal-Mart in Moore the other night and I saw this $300 Magnavox profile 1.1 Blu-Ray player. I like the idea of cheaper Blu-Ray players coming out to help drive down prices and push the format to consumers but why not just get a PS3 for $100 more.

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Dish replacing legacy MPEG-2 receivers with newer MPEG-4 models

Posted by: Dennis Whiteman on June 17th, 2008

The end is near. Today, I received a phone call from Dish Network saying that my Dish 811 receiver would have to be replaced or I would stop receiving HD programming. Online research shows that I probably have until sometime in August before I have to make the switch.

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DXing

Posted by: Dennis Whiteman on May 21st, 2008

David Moran writes:
I live in Norman and am interested in DXing. If I buy a DTV converter box, how likely is it that I would be able to pull in KTEN and/or KXII? Thanks.

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Oklahoma Channels in Arkansas?

Posted by: Dennis Whiteman on May 2nd, 2008

Marylyn West writes:
Why is it that when I installed my new converter box, I was unable to get channels within Oklahoma? All the channels I receive are from Arkansas, which limits me on the amount of news I receive. I am only receiving Arkansas news and in Oklahoma’s unpredictable weather that is not [...]

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DTV Coupons

Posted by: Dennis Whiteman on April 24th, 2008

Florence writes:
I need to know how to get the $40.00 from the gov’t. for the DTV converter box. I will need (2) two converter boxes.
Please advise me where I must go to get the certificate mentioned on T.V.
Thanks for any help you can give me
Florence Harris
This has come up a few times…
www.dtv2009.gov
That site should [...]

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16×9 Next Year?

Posted by: Dennis Whiteman on April 10th, 2008

Bruce writes:
When broadcast changes to HD will local programing be in wide screen or will it remain in 4:3 format? I have a wide screen TV and it would be nice to have everything in wide screen…

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DirecTV Introduces TV tuner for your PC

Posted by: Kevin Sherrard on January 8th, 2008

I don’t know if this new product from DirecTV will do HD but the HDPC-20 is a dual satellite tuner box that connects to you computer via USB so you can record and watch programming with Vista Media Center. Yes Dennis I did say Vista. I am kinda of surprised it did not [...]

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27 inch OLED TV at CES

Posted by: Kevin Sherrard on January 8th, 2008

Check this video from CES, a 27 inch OLED prototype TV from Sony. It is the width of 3 credit cards and has 1,000, 000:1 contrast ratio.
Watch

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Warner Goes BluRay Exclusive

Posted by: Kevin Sherrard on January 4th, 2008

I have been seeing constant rumors on the Internet for months that Warner will go Blu-Ray exclusive at some point. Today there has been an announcement that Warner will continue to publish titles in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD until May 2008 then the will only publish their title with Blu-Ray from then on. This will definitely [...]

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32-inch HDTVs below $700

Posted by: Dennis Whiteman on November 6th, 2007

David Moran writes:
I am looking at buying an HDTV in the near future (around 32 inches) and am looking to spend at most $700 or so. Is this feasible?

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Seniors Maybe Left Out of the Digital Transition

Posted by: Kevin Sherrard on September 24th, 2007

 The Oklahoman had an article today about the how the elderly maybe left out of the digital transition. There are lots of senior citizens that could be left out because many of them do not know the transition is taking place.
http://newsok.com/article/3132776/

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Local Digital Television

Stations highlighted in Green have operational digital television stations. Stations are listed in the order it was first reported here that they were testing or broadcasting over the air.

Networks highlighted in Purple broadcast at least some high definition programming some days and most nights.

Channel Numbers highlighted in Red are multicasting — offering multiple sub channels on one DTV station. If it's not listed, we just don't know about it yet. Contact us

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City DTV

NetworkDTVStation
NBC27KFOR-DT
IND51KSBI-DT
ABC7KOCO-DT
PAX50KOPX-DT
FOX24KOKH-DT
WB33KOCB-DT
TBN15KTBO-DT
PBS32KETA-DT
CBS39KWTV-DT
UPN40KAUT-DT

Tulsa DTV

NetworkDTVStation
NBC56KJRH-DT
CBS55KOTV-DT
PAX28KTPX-DT
FOX22KOKI-DT
IND49KGEB-DT
UPN42KTFO-DT
ABC10KTUL-DT
IND48KWHB-DT
PBS38KOED-DT
WB55-2KWBT-DT

Ada, OK/Ardmore, OK

NetworkDTVStation
CBS20KXII-DT
NBC26KTEN-DT

Bartlesville, OK

NetworkDTVStation
TBN15KDOR-DT

Cheyenne, OK

NetworkDTVStation
PBS8KWET-DT

Claremore, OK

NetworkDTVStation
IND35KRSC-DT

Eufaula, OK

NetworkDTVStation
PBS31KOET-DT

Shawnee, OK

NetworkDTVStation
IND29KQOK-DT

Surrounding States

Fort Smith, AR

NetworkDTVStation
ABC21KHBS-DT
CBS18KFSM-DT
NBC27KPOM-DT
PBS45KAFT-DT

Wichita Falls, TX/Lawton, OK

NetworkDTVStation
ABC11KSWO-DT
CBS22KAUZ-DT
Fox15KJTL-DT
NBC28KFDX-DT

Useful Links

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Oklahoma City | Tulsa

3250HD
3250 HD | User Guide

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