http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ Putting HDTV on the Map in Oklahoma en-US Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:31:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/search.php http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/march-15-two-new-hd-channels-for-cox#post-914 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:12:11 +0000 hdtver 914@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>TVPredictions.com has been covering Epix's roll out.<br /> <a href="http://www.multichannel.com/article/443579-Epix_Gains_Multiplatform_Carriage_On_Cox_In_April.php?rssid=20062" rel="nofollow">http://www.multichannel.com/article/443579-Epix_Gains_Multiplatform_Carriage_On_Cox_In_April.php?rssid=20062</a> </p> <p>Epix has been described as a premium movie channel that uses multi-platforms. Cox lists it as assigned to Channels 211 and 769. Apparently it will also be available On Demand. We will find out for sure come March 15. Epix is a joint venture of Viacom, Paramount, Lion's Gate and MGM. That's all I know about it at this point. </p> <p>The information on Vutopia and video streaming to computers suggests those features are apparently coming sometime during the Spring. I am pretty sure Cox will be running TV ads about that development when it is ready to be rolled out. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/march-15-two-new-hd-channels-for-cox#post-913 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:33:58 +0000 soonertoad 913@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I am not clear on what Epix is. Is it video on demand ? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/march-15-two-new-hd-channels-for-cox#post-912 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:41:11 +0000 hdtver 912@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>This interesting news is from the Cox Digital Town Hall survey of 03 March:</p> <p>Coming this Spring to Cox digital cable subscribers:</p> <p>Vutopia, an ON DEMAND movie collection of up to 200 full length library each month. This service will not be available on satellite. Up to half of the Vutopia movies will also be available in HD for HD subscribers. Each month, up to 100 movies will be refreshed with new premiering every Thursday. </p> <p>In addition, subscribers to the movie package will have the ability to stream Epix and Vutopia movies to their computers from anywhere at any time for no additional charge. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/march-15-two-new-hd-channels-for-cox#post-911 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:02:42 +0000 hdtver 911@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Hallmark Channel HD will be on Channel 769 in OKC and most likely Tulsa.<br /> Epix HD will be located on Channel 798 and Epix will be on Channel 211 as part of the Cox Advanced TV Movie Pak.</p> <p>As has been the rule of late, this information is located on the March billing cycle statements under "News from Cox." </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/cox-moving-kfor-and-koco#post-910 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:37:21 +0000 Taddeusz 910@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I'm not sure when it happened but KFORDT, KFORDT2, KOCODT, and KOCODT2 are currently available on two separate clear QAM channels in the OKC area, 84 and 116. Previously they were only on channel 84. I wonder if Cox is planning on moving those from 84 to 116 and they are keeping both alive until the change is permanent? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/snow-madness#post-909 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:52:01 +0000 Dennis Whiteman 909@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>That's what I was attempting to say. Back in the days of dinosaurs when I was in school, they probably canceled classes a total of two days during the entire time I was in high school. Today, they build in a week of snow days before the school year ever starts.</p> <p>Dennis </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/snow-madness#post-908 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:58:11 +0000 mdeatherage 908@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I don't think any canceled <em>Wednesday</em> classes, just canceled them for Thursday <em>on</em> Wednesday.</p> <p>Right? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/snow-madness#post-907 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:36:54 +0000 Dennis Whiteman 907@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I'm still shocked that schools cancelled classes on Wednesday when it was 60 degrees outside.</p> <p>Dennis </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/snow-madness#post-906 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:23:15 +0000 mdeatherage 906@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>And at 7:22, full HD is back on KOCB, for now. Kudos to the OKC Sinclair staff for fixing it.</p> <p>Am I too demanding here, expecting too much for 2010? Is this really rocket science and I don't know it? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/snow-madness#post-905 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:13:42 +0000 mdeatherage 905@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>(Now, at 7:13, the KOKH crawl is gone from KOCB but the picture is still in SD. Whee.) </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/snow-madness#post-904 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:09:07 +0000 mdeatherage 904@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Well, we got about 2 seconds of <em>Smallville</em> in HD before it reverted to SD so we could see a crawl:</p> <ol> <li>With the wrong station's name/ID on it</li> <li>Listing the "closing" of schools that would already be closed at 7PM on Friday, and</li> <li>announcing that church dinners in Shawnee were postponed.</li> </ol> <p>This is 2010, right?</p> <p>If <em>Kitchen Nightmares</em> is the same way, I'm punting. If I'm going to have to watch it in SD, I'll watch the rerun on BBC America at a better hour with no dumb Andrew Speno commercials.</p> <p>And networks honestly wonder why they're losing viewers to cable. Sigh. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/snow-madness#post-903 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:59:37 +0000 mdeatherage 903@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>It's been the usual mix of usefulness and severe overreaction, hasn't it? I flipped by KFOR and noticed that somehow they'd managed to "enhance" their snow-closing graphic so that it still covered the top 10%-20% of the picture despite being reduced in size. With these guys it's always "One step forward, one step backwards and eat a jar of paste."</p> <p>KFOR pre-empted its entire daytime schedule (programs they have to pay to air) for live remotes of people standing outside in freezing rain, but I think they went ahead with NBC's prime-time schedule (programs NBC pays them to run), continuing with the philosophy of looking like they'll sacrifice to get you severe weather coverage without actually sacrificing much. (That is, if you ignore 4-2, the "4Warn Forecast" channel that they must spend thousands of dollars per month to beam over the air and which is less useful than a Weather web site. It had nothing about the current weather situation all day long. Honest to god, if they're not going to have anything but automatic content on there, why bother? Did the thing have more than 5 viewers during the entire month?)</p> <p>KOCO ran ABC's prime-time schedule and replaced the commercials with its weather updates, actually sacrificing money and keeping viewers entertained. Didn't watch KWTV.</p> <p>Tonight, I'm hoping that KOKH and KOCB (the only two network affiliates who can't superimpose graphics on HD yet) will let the new first-run HD series episodes (<em>Smallville</em>, <em>Kitchen Nightmares</em>) run in HD and update at the commercials, especially since everyone has plenty of ways to find out what might be closed tomorrow after 9PM on those two channels. Wishful thinking? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/good-job-kfor#post-902 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:41:40 +0000 Dennis Whiteman 902@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I mostly watch Letterman because of the musical guests. Other than the first week, Conan has had few that I wanted to watch, which is sad because on his previous show he gave Letterman a run for his money. I record and save the performances on Jimmy Fallon's show now because the Roots are the greatest band in late night television.</p> <p>I actually used to watch Nightline until they dumbed it down so much that it was news anymore...</p> <p>Dennis </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/good-job-kfor#post-901 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:50:32 +0000 mdeatherage 901@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>(Keeping the map over Conan's head for Ed Helms' entire appearance, when there were no watches or warnings in effect, was a bit of a dick move too.) </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/good-job-kfor#post-900 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:42:13 +0000 mdeatherage 900@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Conan's 18-34 demographic is growing daily, there's no bigger story in entertainment...</p> <p>...so be sure to not show the beginning of his monologue, the part everyone wants to see, so that you can show <strong>crappy SD video of a fire that's not doing anything</strong>, followed by a minute of useless studio banter (and more Mike Morgan!) and three minutes of local commercials that you didn't show at the right time, so you decide to show them over <strong>the one thing everyone wants to see</strong>.</p> <p>It's not like I was going to watch Jay Leno ever again after this crap, but after Conan actually came to KFOR to do promos and you to pull this chickenshit stuff?</p> <p>This is why we can't have nice things. You just screw them up.</p> <p>For the record, KFOR joined <em>The Tonight Show</em> in progress <em>five minutes late</em>, just exactly as Conan finished talking about the late-night imbroglio. We missed the biggest entertainment story of the year so you could show <em>a fire not doing anything</em> plus studio banter plus commercials that <em>you should have skipped because you didn't run them at the right time</em>. You made bad choices and we don't get to see the hottest thing on television. Good job!</p> <p>We knew NBC was completely screwed, but are all NBC affiliates this bad as well? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/leno-in-conan-out#post-899 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:31:43 +0000 Kevin Sherrard 899@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>It looks like Jay is back in his own time slot at 10:30. Conan maybe going to Fox? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/amc-dlp-and-imax#post-898 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:00:15 +0000 Phillip 898@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Last I checked they have two DLP screens and then the Digital IMAX. I have heard they are going to try and replace the other projectors by end of 2010. I think it was a smart move putting the IMAX in considering that Dickenson was suppose to build that one just north of Quail and then was cancelled for some reason. Plus now that AMC is getting digital projectors there is really no need for me to drive all the way to moore now unless i want the balcony experiance. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/amc-dlp-and-imax#post-897 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:36:14 +0000 Kevin Sherrard 897@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>How many DLP's does the AMC have now? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/three-new-hd-channels-on-cox-by-december-31st#post-896 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:48:54 +0000 hdtver 896@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Cox OKC activated the three new HD channels (729,761, and 762) by late morning Friday the 18th. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/ksbi-dts-new-look#post-895 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:00:07 +0000 hdtver 895@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>For reasons unknown to me, KSBI-DT OTA always shows up as 52.3 and 53.4. I have always thought that an odd choice for them to make. Apparently my HDTV has its odd moments because repeated rescanning always gets the same results. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/ksbi-dts-new-look#post-894 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:00:52 +0000 Dennis Whiteman 894@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Hmmmm. I see the "KSBI-DT Thunder TV" wings on 52.1 and none on 52.2. I don't have sub channels 3 or 4.</p> <p>It's not old news I don't think, but I'm not sure how new it is...</p> <p>Dennis </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/ksbi-dts-new-look#post-893 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:42:04 +0000 hdtver 893@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I noticed today that KSBI-DT 51.3 now has banners on both sides of the screen saying "DSBI-DT Thunder TV" and that 51.4 looks a bit sharper. Am I behind in noticing this development for the first time? </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/three-new-hd-channels-on-cox-by-december-31st#post-892 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:27:24 +0000 hdtver 892@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Today's Channel Lineup on the Cox website lists the three new HD channels as:<br /> 729 Tennis Channel HD<br /> 761 ID HD<br /> 762 BBC America HD</p> <p>No information on the date of the first day of activity on those channel assignments. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/three-new-hd-channels-on-cox-by-december-31st#post-891 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:59:00 +0000 hdtver 891@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Apparently Cox Oklahoma will be carrying BBC America HD "by December 31" I did a search on both TVPredictions.com and MultichannelNews.com and only came up with comments like "where is BBC American HD?" but I seem to remember coming across a brief article saying that one of the major cable providers started carrying it shortly after it was available. Dish Network promised to carry it but as you know it hasn't so far. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/amc-dlp-and-imax-1#post-890 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:49:19 +0000 Phillip 890@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/amc-dlp-and-imax#post-889 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:48:38 +0000 Phillip 889@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I recently went up to AMC to watch a movie with the Mrs. we usually drive to Moore but didn't feel like it so I thought what the heck I will go to AMC since it's closer and we were only going to see christmas carol. Anyway when I got there I was surprised to see that the AMC now has two screens that are DLP and then the IMAX digital screen. We saw New Moon on one of the DLP screens and it looked really good. Then we decided to try out the IMAX and see Christmas carol in 3D. It was pretty impressive, I think the most impressive thing about it was the trailer for Avatar. I was surprised in the depth, color and clarity of the picture. Anyway I am at least glad that AMC is trying to upgrade their theater now. Now unless I just want the balcony treatment I can just drive two miles to AMC and see a movie on DLP, if it happens to be playing on one of them. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/three-new-hd-channels-on-cox-by-december-31st#post-888 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:57:26 +0000 Dennis Whiteman 888@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>HDNet Movies and MGM are the two channels I record the most with my Dish Network setup. HDNet has good programming occasionally, especially concerts and Smithsonian was good while I had it, though it repeated all the time. Honestly, the HD channel I'd most like to get is BBC America. Does any provider in the US have that yet?</p> <p>Dennis </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/three-new-hd-channels-on-cox-by-december-31st#post-887 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:24:21 +0000 HDedmond 887@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I also wouldn't mind seeing Cox add Smithsonian HD and MGM HD. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/three-new-hd-channels-on-cox-by-december-31st#post-886 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:22:23 +0000 HDedmond 886@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>The positive: Slowly but surely Cox is adding more HD channels.</p> <p>The negative: Still no HDNet or HDNet Movies. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/three-new-hd-channels-on-cox-by-december-31st#post-885 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:28:50 +0000 Mark 885@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Fantastic, more spellbinding HD to keep me glued to my HDTV! </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/three-new-hd-channels-on-cox-by-december-31st#post-884 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:28:50 +0000 hdtver 884@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>The December billing cycle statements list the following new channels under "News From Cox"</p> <p>Tennis Channel HD on Channel 729<br /> Investigation Discovery HD on Channel 761<br /> BBC America HD on Channel 764</p> <p>All three should be activated "by December 31st." I assume this information applies to both Tulsa and OKC Cox systems. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/stuttering-koco-hd-feed#post-883 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:00:24 +0000 HDedmond 883@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>The wife noticed it last night watching Desperate Housewives. </p> <p>A friend in Tulsa checked his recording of FlashForward, but it was not there, so it seems to be OKC specific -- either KOCO or Cox OKC's retransmit. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/stuttering-koco-hd-feed#post-882 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:21:39 +0000 Dennis Whiteman 882@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>I watched FlashForward live last night and didn't notice that problem. Since the signal is unreliable, I record the few things I record from ABC on both my Dish 211K and my Mac-based EyeTV device.</p> <p>I kind of remember something like that briefly, but haven't noticed it recently. I'm looking at Nightline now and they do something like that, but I'm not sure it's a problem with the feed so much as a special effect.</p> <p>Dennis </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/stuttering-koco-hd-feed#post-881 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:19:04 +0000 Sooner Al 881@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>FWIW I noticed that when I was watching a recorded week old or so "Flash Foward" program last evening. It was also apparent on a "Law &amp; Order SVU" recording to a less extent. </p> http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/topic/stuttering-koco-hd-feed#post-880 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:29:50 +0000 HDedmond 880@http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/ <p>Has anyone noticed problems with the HD feed of ABC programming on KOCO?</p> <p>I first noticed it a few weeks ago during the show FlashForward. The HD image seems to stutter and briefly flash a negative of the image on the screen. At first I thought this might be something the show FlashForward was doing intentionally, since it is a Science Fiction show. </p> <p>However, I later noticed the stuttering on a college football broadcast and on another TV show, so I am now wondering if this is a problem with ABC's feed, KOCO's broadcast, or Cox's retransmission.</p> <p>Has anyone else noticed this? </p>