Putting HDTV on the map in Oklahoma

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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 also [...]

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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.
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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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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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 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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David writes:
I recently bought a new TV. I don’t think it’s high def, however, in the manual, it talks about connecting HD components. This makes me wonder if I can in fact, if I wanted to, get HD service through Cox. I found the manual and the specifications online.

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JV:
I have a very recent model Mitsubishi DLP TV plugging in to a Sony home theater receiver. Using the OTA tuner with 90% or better signal strength on all channels, I get sound dropouts on KOCO when using the coaxial digital output for sound. No other channel has this issue exhibits this problem. The picture [...]

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Jayson Floyd writes:
I recently purchased a hdtv antenna in order to pick up over the air high def. I live in north Yukon and I don’t seem to be picking up any stations. The antenna that I purchased has a range of 30 miles. Are there any HD towers within a 30 mile radius of [...]

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