Putting HDTV on the map in Oklahoma

OU has released renderings as to what the new HD scoreboard will look like.
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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 [...]

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It was announced a few days ago that Warren Theaters is going to expand its presence in the OKC metro area. First the Warren Theater in Moore is going to get 6 more screen and 500 new parking spaces. The big plans it to build another theater at Rockwell and Memorial Road with 4 stadium [...]

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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 FCC Application page has been updated with all filings to the FCC by Oklahoma DTV stations.
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KOCO-DT filed an application this week to operate their DTV channel from maximum directional effective radiated power of 34 kW with an antenna height at 430 meters to a non-directional effective radiated power of 48kW

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It was annouced this week at NAB that more shows are going HD this fall.
Sesame Street
Cops
ESPN’s LA Studio
Survivor
The Oprah Winfrey Show

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I was walking by a TV at work this morning and I noticed that KOCO had a crawl during Ellen that we had 315 days to go until the analog cut off. Anyone else see this?

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Any see the DTV Infomercial on KWTV Sunday morning around 11:30? I got to watch a little bit of bit but no enough to form an opinion. It looks like we are going to see a blitz of information for people to but converters if they need them.

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I am sure all of you have seen the new theater in Moore. I went this weekend and saw Horton Hears a Who with my daughter. It was a pretty good movie but the treat was the picture quality. Every theater has a Christie 3-chip 2K DLP projector so the picture quality was outstanding. The [...]

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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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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 [...]

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The Oklahoman had an article on the DTV switch over that I completely forgot about. Dennis and I helped provide some information in the article. One thing I did see missing from the article is that the FCC DTV Box Coupon cannot be used on a box with HD outputs.
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HD-DVD strikes back from the post Warner Blu-Ray Exclusive announcement with discounts starting with the HD-A3 MSRP that has dropped to $149.99.  This is the entry level HD-DVD box, it will not do 1080p but for $150 it is not a bad price.
 Amazon is also running an up to 50 % sale on their HD-DVD [...]

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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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