[mythtv-users] Status of OTA ATSC Channels in SF area

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Jan 5 03:23:13 UTC 2007


On Jan 4, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Eric Gilbert wrote:

> On 1/4/07, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>> Brad Fuller wrote:
>>> Following a recent thread ("HD Tuner Cards"), I thought I'd  
>>> record, for
>>> reference for others, the status of my ATSC OTA channels in my area
>>> (South SF Bay, next to Santa Cruz mtns by Hwy17:
>>>
>>>   2-1 KTVUDT  - fine
>>>   2-2 KTVUDT2 - fine
>>>   4-1 KRONDT  - fine
>>
>
> That is really odd that you are getting 2-2 KTVUDT2.
>
> I live in Berkeley, and with both my pcHDTV-3K and my HDHomeRun I am
> able to get 2-1 (comes in flawlessly though), but 2-2 seems to have
> been dropped (as far as I can tell with output from dvbsnoop).  I used
> to get it until some time in december when my farscape, stargate sg1
> and atlantis recordings started failing on me. Since those are being
> pillar boxed on 2-1 in 720p I had them recorded on 2-2 since it was
> sent as 704x480.
>
> Are there any other lurkers with similar experience? I fired off an
> email to the station, but have only gotten silence.

How funny. I was just about to tell you that I get it just fine, but  
now I notice that it's completely gone. I guess I never noticed  
because I always record on 2.1 just in case something really is full HD.


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