John Willkie wrote: > This is news? Wasn't the same problem reported by multiple viewers of > multiple stations, and -- somehow -- you thought WICD was responsible? That > was nowhere near a jumpball, so your anti-Sinclair, Anti-WICD (a station I > haven't watched in decades) bias continues to shine on. > Well, there is a special case here. First, I have indeed been attacking Sinclair for not giving us NBC here in Central Illinois in HD. I originally chided them also for having pathetic power at 170 feet of tower, though this was sufficient for me to get there SD just fine. Some time ago they went to fill tower height (1300 ft) and a bit higher power (a few kilowatts on Ch. 41), which is sufficient even for basements here inside town. They went to HD at the first millisecond of the HD Olympic coverage, and therein lies the rest of the story. That is, I had not seen ANY HD from them before the Olympics. Since their encoder was untested on actual viewers, one could only hope that it was set right. Now that we see that most of our local problem, if not all, had been from NBC, I just wanted to say that I now have a much higher opinion of Sinclair. Some (not all) people on AVSForum had been saying that ALL of the picture quality problem was local. That is clearly not the case. With Sinclair now on the ball, we have two HD stations (ABC and NBC) on the air, and two Fox stations ready or almost ready for HD (one WAS ready but their transmitter broke Sunday, and the other is awaiting the microwave, which was supposed to be here today, but didn't make it.) So as of Sept. 15 we shall have 3 HD networks, and hopefully by October PBS too. This is big progress. Sinclair is not Nexstar ... They (Sinclair) is making good progress in HDTV. Nexstar (our CBS) is not: we are the 6th largest market not to have CBS HD: three of the 5 above us are also Nexstar. They are the ones who should be ashamed. Doug McDonald > Someone else oppressed by a TV station. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.