Putting HDTV on the map in Oklahoma

KFOR-DT transmitted HD from their helicopter for the first time today. KFOR-DT is definitely stepping up the HD news coverage in the state. It is only a matter of time when we will see a tornado in HD from a helicopters perspective. Hopefully it will not be in a populated area. I live in Moore, [...]

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I went and saw Avatar this weekend at the Warren Theater in Moore. The Warren uses a 3D system from the Dolby. The AMC theater at Quail Spings Mall now has an IMAX theater which opened this month. Has anyone seen Avatar at both theaters? If you have which experience did you like better?

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KFOR local news goes HD tonight! There still will be a mix of SD and HD video probably for a good while but at least the studio camera shots are HD. This is a big hurdle, hats off the engineers! Upgrade done is 24 hours, Wow!

Nice intro logo!

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I got an email to watch KFOR-DT tonight at 10 PM. I have no idea what they are going to announce.

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The time has finally come for the 1st part of the DTV transition to now become reality. If you have a digital tv or a converter you will need to do a rescan for digital tv channels today.
In the Oklahoma City area KWTV-DT is moving its DTV channel from 39 to 9 at 1:00 PM. [...]

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This is a reminder for anyone out there to see if the “Great Stat or What” segment on KFOR-DT at 6:40 will be in HD or not tonight. We had a report last week on the form that someone saw this segment in HD last week. I have my Media Center and DirecTV HD box [...]

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KWTV has started a crawl at the bottom of their picture stating that they will cease analog broadcasting at 1:00 PM February 17, 2009.

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NBC will broadcast the first ever 3D commercial during the Super Bowl. The ads will be for the Monsters and Aliens movie and Sobe Lifewater. The ads will run at the end of the second quarter.

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Seinfeld will be avilable in HD for local syndication later this month Sony Pictures plan to annouce at CES this week. Currently I don’t know of any station in OKC that can broadcast HD syndicated programming. I believe there is one station in Tulsa that can do this.
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Anyone else notice the clock in the left hand side of the screen during tonight’s Sunday Night Football Game on KFOR-DT?
UPDATE: The clock was taken off in the third quarter.

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The BCS Championship game will be shown in 3D in about 80 Digital Movie Theaters around the country. The closest theater to Oklahoma City and Tulsa according to the Cinedigm website that will carry the game in 3D is in Stillwater. I know Dennis will be there. I emailed the Warren Theater in [...]

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I wonder if Oklahoma is considered to be a DTV market at risk…
“So what we’re going to try to do is take some of the lessons we learned here and actually go out onto the road into the markets that we identified that are most at risk, and we’re going to try to have the [...]

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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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