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Post by Mike Slade on Aug 27, 2008 23:10:39 GMT -5
Is wrbl not working for everyone else? I just get a black screen. I don't have an antenna hooked up right now, just getting it through cable. But i hooked up an antenna indoors and got 70% but still nothing. WTVM was coming in at just over 50% so it seems like somethings up. But it's been this way for 2 days so i figured somebody else would bring it up.
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Post by Rick on Aug 28, 2008 5:44:29 GMT -5
I am getting the same thing. Tuesday at around 7:00 EST, it was having major problems with its picture. I then noticed later that evening that the channel had just went black. I haven't checked this morning yet.
I am still able to just switch over to analog 3.0 to watch programming if forced, but that begs the question what are they going to do post 2009? How can the digital channel just be down for days? There won't be an alternative analog station to watch in lieu of the digital channel being down.
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Post by supermale on Aug 28, 2008 6:31:04 GMT -5
It's black this morning for me, too, on 3-1 and -2. I'm seeing the normal signal, but no content.
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Post by Mike Slade on Aug 28, 2008 20:11:18 GMT -5
Well it's back now. I sent an email to them this morning but got no response. So don't know what the problem was or if they even knew about it until I mentioned it. Surely by now they are actually monitoring these sort of things.
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Post by zedsdead on Aug 30, 2008 19:08:33 GMT -5
I have pondered this question everytime any of the local station's digital signals go out.
Here is my uneducated guess.
Since they are required to go 100% digital in 2009 they are not required to keep the signal digital 24/7 until then. So they may drop the signal for any number of reasons (equipment failure, not paying attention to the signal, routine maintenance, etc) and not care. Since most people are on cable, we who receive a digital signal OTA are in a minority. I am sure they feel that, if the digital signal is out, then people can go back to the analog signal.
I am not sure about you guys but on my main TV I do not have an analog option.
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Post by jnmowery on Sept 9, 2008 1:47:24 GMT -5
Your theory is not too far off base. I think as we get closer to the transition though it is less and less so. If you notice when watching high def programs the network "bug" (CBS "Eye", NBC Peacock, ABC circle) is now not to the far right. It is moved left so that if you took the 16:9 picture and chopped it so you only saw what would fit in a 4:3 screen, the bug would appear to be in the far right corner of that screen. This is because many cable and satellite providers are switching from picking up the analog signal to the digital. For the SD 4:3 channels, moving that bug means they can send out 1 digital signal that can be used by cable/satellite to produce both an SD channel and an HD channel.
As that becomes more an more common place, stations won't be blowing off digital signal issues.
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