So, as the temps warm up and the ice starts to clear in OKC, what were your best and worst moments for HD in OKC?
Me, I'm impressed that KWTV-DT has the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in HD while still scrolling SD closings in the bottom middle of the screen.
Of course, KFOR-DT did as much wrong as everyone else did right put together. I was especially amused (or was that despair?) to see Mike Morgan talk about all the different ways you could get closings information: 4-2, kfor.com, k4togo.com, and 4warn.com—all while KFOR cheerfully dropped everything into squashed, blurry SD to run the closings 24/7—and while 4-2's weather feed remained absolutely unchanged from its normal completely useless not-even-NBC-Weather-Plus-because-that's-dead feed.
So much for "progress." I'm just glad I barely watch anything on NBC anymore, and KFOR's incompetence with HD has been a big part of that decision. The next time Mike Morgan brags about 4-2 and kfor.com while simultaneously taking 4-1 out of HD to run non-critical information, he really ought to be hit with a pie.
I don't know what happened with KOCO-DT, but I was getting it fine OTA in El Reno even while DirecTV said it was "off the air for the night" and people here were saying it was very weak. However, my DirecTV HR-21 (with AM-21 OTA box) helpfully moved my recording tonight of LOST from DirecTV's KOCO (HD) to 5-1 (OTA), without me asking it to do so. It'll take up twice as much room, since it's MPEG-2 instead of MPEG-4, but I'll watch it by the weekend anyway.
I didn't watch enough of KOKH-DT or KOCB-DT to notice any issues; KOCB-DT (OTA—as noted, DirecTV doesn't carry KOCB-DT in HD) had KOKH's bottom scroller of school closings. I know they're both Sinclair stations and share almost everything on the back end, but it's still weird to turn to 34 and see a scroller that says "FOX 25" between every pice of information. Did they keep the HD working in prime time?
How does this all loom for the post-analog era and the upcoming tornado season? ("Upcoming" being a relative word, since we had a tornado watch on December 28. Jiminy.)
