Putting HDTV on the map in Oklahoma

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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The analog television cut off is fast approaching so the FCC is letting everyone sign up to get $40 coupon to help pay for a DTV OTA converter box. The coupons will ship in February. You can go to https://www.dtv2009.gov/ to sign up. The boxes that you can use these coupons on are not even [...]

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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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I went to Harkins Theater tonight in Bricktown to catch Live Free or Die Hard. When I went purchase the tickets I noticed there was a “DLP-Transformers” entry on the kiosk. I went and checked out theater number 9 and it had DLP-Transformers in the sign above the door. I have to go check this [...]

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For all the couch potatoes, there will be 2 Fourth of July Specials with HD fireworks Wednesday night. Macy’s 4th Of July Fireworks Spectacular 2007 from New York City is on NBC and PBS to broadcasting from Washington D.C. a July 4th fireworks special in high-def, A Capitol Fourth.

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Skay McCall wrote:
This isn’t really an HD question but I thought you guys might be able to help me. I have a sports bar in Norman as well as another restaurant. For the past 6 otr 7 years I had used Shawn Mitchell for all of my audio/video installations and fixing problems. [...]

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Bobarino supplied the following:
WFAA in Dallas now broadcasting local news in HD…
Comment: Since Dallas is a top 5 market, that means Oklahoma City should get its first HD local news sometime in 2015.

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I check DLP.com every once and while to see if we are ever going to get a DLP theater in the OKC metro area. The closest theater with a DLP projector is in Plano until now. I am not sure when this opened but from looking at the web site it looks like they have 5 [...]

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It is finally here. The 6.3 software rollout has begun. I am not sure when Oklahoma users will get the update but I am sure it is soon. Your boxes needs to connected to a phone line for the new software to be activated and installed.

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TiVo Debuts Revolutionary Series3 High Definition Digital Media Recorder
The TiVo Series3 HD Box is the World’s first THX Certified DVR and Delivers the Best Home Theater Experience with Advanced Broadband Features and Two CableCARD Slots for Digital Cable Integration
Alviso, CA — September 12, 2006 — TiVo Inc., the creator of and a leader in television [...]

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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 [...]

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An engineer working at the Torino Winter Olympics has a blog giving us a behind the scenes look at the HD side of the broadcast.
http://hdolympics.blogspot.com/

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Senate Commerce Committee Approves
the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today approved by a vote 19-3 the Committee’s Reconciliation Bill submission called the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005.

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It is interesting that the HD group in Milwaukee are making similar complaints we hear in our area. Particularly failure to switch the HD on at the end of SD runs. According to a couple of post their local PBS station did not pay up the 60,000 dollars and drop the network HD [...]

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