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12-23-2007, 07:06 PM
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We're The FCC. We're part of the Goverment. We know what's best for you...Resistance is Futile...You are an Individual, therefore, you're an Idiot, WE know what is best....We're The FCC.....
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12-23-2007, 07:15 PM
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I don't usually bother with 42, because it's a lot of CBS re-broadcasts, and I can't think of one of their shows I enjoy. Is there some local content that's worth watching? Here it is:  Here is 54 (French):  32 is a must-have, just for their Saturday night movies:  This is LPTV Channel 33 from Detroit. Fun to watch just for the amateur factor (like pre-'94 Ch. 62):  I have a smallish roof antenna with no rotor. (I might upgrade soon) It's aimed SW, absolutely wrong for those stations. I'm going to miss TV DX'ing come 2009.
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12-23-2007, 07:22 PM
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12-23-2007, 07:25 PM
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I can get all those except 42.
There's also a channel 19 that's somewhere in Ohio. there's a channel 55, no clue where it is. There's a channel 22 which is also Canadian. 19 and 55 are impossible to bring in unless you have a damn good tuner, seeing as they're right next to channels 20 and 56...
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12-23-2007, 07:32 PM
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Okay here's a more on topic question:
I know sattilite boxes have signal strength meters, do HDTV boxes, or HDTV's have signal strength meters as well? omething like that would be damn helpful for figuring out which way to point the antenna...
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12-23-2007, 07:40 PM
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I get 14 (I think) which is all religious stuff. 23 (Spanish... Univision I think) 31 (LP Ann Arbor I think) 32 (TVO) 33 (LPTV Detroit) 38 (WADL, now called "urban TV"... Been nothing but infomercials since sign on in '89, but now seems to have picked up where 62 left off in '94, plus some old re-runs of Heat of the Night, etc. Overall, a nice change) 42 (CTV) 48 (ION) 54 (French) 66 (LPTV, Religious full-time) Do you remember channel 78 from Canada? That goes back to the 70s I think. I skipped the obvious 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 20, 50, 56, 62. What city are you in? I'm guessing SW of me in St. Clair Shores?
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12-23-2007, 10:21 PM
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16 is the religion channel. 19 is WOIO. I brought it in twice, and have never seen it since. 22 is Global, another Canadian station, very hard to bring in. I have no clue what 55 is. I do know it's not a ghost of 56 though. As for what city I live in, PM me.
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12-23-2007, 10:34 PM
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Most ATSC STBs have signal meters that are used for antenna tuning. In my area, all but PBS transmits at 10% of their analog ERP, PBS transmits at 20% of their analog ERP. And yes, the whole reason for this switch is so the FCC can auction off the unused $pectrum. But, even though our government is money hungry, we all can benefit from digital TV if the transmitter power is high enough. Clear picture, EPG, show title, description, and sub channels. All of the modern digital features we got used to with satellite TV. But, TV DXing will be gone, unfortunately.
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12-24-2007, 02:38 AM
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It isn't now, and it won't be during or after 2009.
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12-24-2007, 08:09 AM
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I haven't checked all the posts but...
The mandate that I read about in Scientific American is that all BROADCAST TV be DIGITAL, not HD. The mandate doesn't affect the way that cable or satellite will be delivered to the customers. The point was to, a decade late, to get broadcast into digital and turn over the bandwidth for HD. The cute thing is that our lawmakers, in their ineptitude, or maliciously if you would think so, have left a loophole for the networks to send less than true HD and use the rest of the bandwidth for other commercial gains.
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That was my point. It isn't HD but Broadcast analog to digital that will be converted. The first post addressed only local broadcast being delivered to local customers by cable and dish. Which is what the FCC ruled on this fall. I meant what I posted to be a clarification. There is a lot of confusion on these points.
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