Putting HDTV on the map in Oklahoma

I was beginning to worry that none of the Republican Convention would be in HD. Dish doesn’t have a dedicated RNC HD channel, like they had for the Democrats, and the only HD coverage I had seen were in the studios and on the floor from CNN.
At least some of the speeches tonight are in [...]

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I noticed during the NBC Nightly News and earlier on some other show that KFOR’s DTV crawl was superimposed over an HD broadcast. Previously, KFOR had to drop out of an HD broadcast to run the FCC-mandated crawl over network programming. Do you think they have new equipment? I guess we’ll know when a thunderstorm [...]

Read: Does KFOR-DT have new gear for the Olympics? »

OU is getting a new scoreboard that will have a 16 mm HD capable video system for the 2008 football season. They are also updating Soonervision cameras to HD as well. This presents some interesting questions if they are going to frame the shots for 16:9? How does this effect the Sooner Football replay shows [...]

Read: Oklahoma Memorial Stadium Going HD »

HDsportsguide.com is reporting that all ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNUHD live college football games will be in HD.
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Read: 2008 HD College Football on ABC and ESPN Networks »

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…

Read: 16×9 Next Year? »

ggore writes,
KOMI-TV  24 in Woodward has announced that they will be turning their transmitter off all day on Sunday Feb 3 so that cable subscribers in Woodward, Weatherford, Clinton, Elk City, Alva, Taloga, Watonga, and others, and those with antennas, all in northwest Oklahoma, may watch the Super Bowl in HD.
From Kevin Sherrard
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Read: KOMI-DT Going Off Air For Super Bowl »

Tonight is a rare opportunity to really compare the picture quality between the local stations coming all from the same feed. The feed for the State of the Union Address is being produced by CBS in 1080i then the feed is pooled to the other networks. All conversions from 1080i to 720p are all done [...]

Read: State of the Union Address Tonight in HD »

DirecTV added these channels today in HD. You must have an MPEG4 recevier to view them.
Food Network (Channel 231-1)
MGM (Channel 255)
National Geographic (Channel 276)
CNBC (Channel 355)

Read: DirecTV Adds 4 HD Channels »

Charles Simon wrote:
Construction of what looks like a second candelabra tower at the south end of Oklahoma City’s antenna farm can be seen from both I35 and I44 as you approach the Cowboy Hall of Fame area. Does anyone have information on this new construction within the antenna farm?

Read: Is OKCity getting a second candelabra tower? »

Bobarino writes:
Is it just me or did anyone else that KWTV now has the equipment necessary to display weather maps and text scrawls in HD? I noticed last night that they kept their 16×9 HD picture but had a weather map in the upper right corner and a full screen width text crawl.

Read: KWTV Weather Overlay in HD? »

For the educators among you, the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association is hosting a Hi-Def Day promoting the use of High Definition technology in educational settings…
Please join your colleagues in ODLA on April 30, 2007 from 8AM - 5PM for Hi-Def Day at the Portland Campus of Francis Tuttle Technology Center
3500 NW 150th St.
Oklahoma City, OK [...]

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Glenn Gore writes:
Is there something wrong with the DT signals of 34(33), 52(51), and 62(50)? We haven’t been able to receive any of them at the cable system here in Taloga for months now. We put up new antennas last week, which helped reception of 4,5,9,13, 14, and 43, but still do not [...]

Read: Problems With KOCB-DT, KSBI-DT and KOPX-DT in Taloga »

The State Fair of Texas has chosen Daktronics to build a new HD LED powered video display for the Cotton Bowl. This part of the $50 renovation plan for the stadium.
When completed, the new ProStar(R) video board will match the 720p HD standard, with 720 lines of resolution, each line populated with 1,280 full-color LED [...]

Read: Cotton Bowl Gets HDTV Scoreboard »

We continue experimenting with our Sony HDR-HC3 high definition camcorder. One of the things you see all the time these days are time lapse movies of clouds zooming across the sky. Although it was 104 degrees, the clouds today were perfect for capturing this kind of footage.
Of course, I still haven’t found time to write [...]

Read: HD Time Lapse Movies »

So now we have a “firm” shutoff date for the analog stations, something like 2027. Are Stations going to keep their analog numbers, switch to the digital number, or will the digital freq change back to the analog? For example: KFOR in OKC, is “4″, K4, we’ll keep you 4-Warned; K27 and we’ll keep you [...]

Read: Station Numbers after the conversion… »