http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums Milwaukee area Hi Def reception and technical issues en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:05:04 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9107&goto=newpost Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:32:30 GMT I just noticed this last night and again tonight. I have a Season Pass to record the Two and a Half Men on Ch 18. Only the 6am episode recorded. I double checked the Season pass, it is for First Runs and Repeats. And come 6:30, no other tuner is recording anything. Does anyone have this issue... I just noticed this last night and again tonight. I have a Season Pass to record the Two and a Half Men on Ch 18. Only the 6am episode recorded. I double checked the Season pass, it is for First Runs and Repeats. And come 6:30, no other tuner is recording anything. Does anyone have this issue to or any suggestions on what to do?

Oh also the signal is just fine, so no issues with that. ]]> Milwaukee HDTV Technical Issues Tivoman44 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9107 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9105&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:28:30 GMT Anyone else having signal issues with National Geographic HD? All day today the picture has been breaking up, and I keep losing the signal unless I go to another channel and then tune back again. (I'm guessing something to do with a switched digital video type issue.)

I'm curious if anyone else is having this problem before I waste time with a service call. Last time we had a tech out he added a drop amp before the house's splitter, and said we now have a great signal. ]]> Milwaukee HDTV Technical Issues Mark Strube http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9105 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9103&goto=newpost Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:46:51 GMT I have a samsung syncmaster 2333hdtv. For some reason two channels disappeared one morning and my tv programmer can no longer find them. Channel 4-1 and 6-1, I still receive other local hd dtv channels like 12-1 and 58-1, but 4-1 and 6-1 just disappeared, and my tv no longer recognizes them or can... I have a samsung syncmaster 2333hdtv. For some reason two channels disappeared one morning and my tv programmer can no longer find them. Channel 4-1 and 6-1, I still receive other local hd dtv channels like 12-1 and 58-1, but 4-1 and 6-1 just disappeared, and my tv no longer recognizes them or can even find them. They do not even show up in my channel list on the menu, i do not know what to do and I have never seen or heard of anyone having this problem all of a sudden. Thanks for any help ]]> Milwaukee HDTV Technical Issues ben_friendz http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9103 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9101&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:38:32 GMT When I watch the PBS NewsHour (Jim Leher NewsHour) on CH 36 -- either getting it from DirecTV or as 36.1 OTA, it is broadcast larger than 100%. So, I'm losing headers and footers, such as names, etc. I wonder if it's just me, or do others notice it, too. While I can move the picture around on my setup, I can't shrink it, and I don't think that would cure the problem, anyway.

I don't notice information being "clipped' on any other channel or program, but it is annoying on the one in question.

Anyone else?

Stan ]]> Milwaukee HDTV Technical Issues Stanley Kritzik http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9101 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9100&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:50:22 GMT Hey All, Did TWC show the Packers game in HD? I saw the replay and it was NOT in HD, what about the live call? If it was not in HD, I wonder if stations are still having problems because of the flooding? Jack Hey All,

Did TWC show the Packers game in HD? I saw the replay and it was NOT in HD, what about the live call?

If it was not in HD, I wonder if stations are still having problems because of the flooding?

Jack ]]> Milwaukee HDTV Technical Issues Jack 1000 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9100 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9098&goto=newpost Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:55:15 GMT All:

I just picked up a dual-tuner HDHomeRun last week (thank you, woot!), and I finally got around to configuring it today. When scanning for channels in the HDHR setup tool, it's not finding all of the channels I would expect. It's missing channels 12.x, 58.x, 10.x, and 36.x. The channels it does find are coming in nicely.

This could very well be due to signal strength issues, as the signal is passing through 2 passive splitters before getting to the HDHR inputs, but I want to make sure before I head down that path. Is this a common symptom for ClearQAM tuners when signal strength is low?

Thanks in advance,
Rob ]]> Milwaukee HDTV Technical Issues Snoogins http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9098 http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9097&goto=newpost Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:28:15 GMT My family has a house in Chicago… Their house is nicely wired and they have a bunch of televisions (mostly old TVs with some newer ones thrown in)… They just ditched Comcast cable and went with U-verse the other day… Of course now they have the issue where they used to have several TVs hooked up directly to cable, and now they are forced to use a box to receive television… They certainly aren’t interested in renting a bunch of boxes (at $7.50 each per month) for each TV in the house, so I was trying to think of a solution to get TV reception to all the other TVs in the house…

The nice thing about the house is, that mostly all the rooms are wired (both with coax and cat-5) to a central location in the basement.. Naturally the u-verse RG was installed in the basement, and all the rooms can be reached throughout the house from that location.. They have only one box (for now) and that’s hooked up to the HD television they have in their main living room… Anyhow, I can see two possible solutions for hooking up the TVs without having to rent a bunch of boxes..

One solution would be to put an antenna on the roof, wire it down to the basement, and then distribute the antenna signal to the other rooms in the house… This way, they can get digital OTA TV on any TV equipped with a digital tuner, and I suppose they can buy an OTA tuner box for those TVs that don’t have a digital tuner built in.. They won’t get the U-verse channels, but at least all the other TVs will be usable this way..

Another solution would be to rent one additional U-verse box, hook it into the RG, and then take the RF channel 3 output from the box, and just distribute it from there to the other TVs in the house… Then I suppose they could get a bunch of IR<->RF transceivers (I’ve used ‘powermids’ in the past) so they can control that box from anywhere (or is there another way to get IR control back to the box, perhaps back through the coax?)… This way, they can get any u-verse channel anywhere in the house… Granted it would only be in standard definition with monaural sound, and all the other TVs in the house would have to be on the same channel, but at least the other TVs in the house would be usable this way…

Or, perhaps a third solution would be to have the best of both, and distribute both the digital antenna, along with the analog channel 3 from a u-verse box, on the same coax, throughout the house… TVs can then be set up to tune to the digital channels, or to analog channel 3, and they would be able to switch from one to the other at will..

Is it possible to combine the digital and the analog.. Is that just as easy as taking a splitter and reversing it, to combine two coax cables into a single cable?? Or do I need some sort of equipment (like a ‘combiner’) to do that?? What would be the best way to do it?? ]]> Milwaukee HDTV Technical Issues TPK http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9097