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Post by xzi on May 24, 2013 21:31:37 GMT -5
So is WNYA my4
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Post by xzi on Sept 25, 2012 8:19:01 GMT -5
Does DirecTV have the CW in HD? I use their AM21 and antenna to get the subchannels, CW and my in HD for Yankees games with DIRECTV--it puts them right in the same guide and can DVR them too so it's a nice solution.
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Post by xzi on Sept 21, 2012 9:27:07 GMT -5
Besides, these days if you aren't watching sports and live events, why don't you just cord-cut, get an antenna with an Apple TV, iTunes, Netflix and Hulu Plus? There's no point in having cable or satellite for anything else IMO anymore.
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Post by xzi on Sept 21, 2012 9:25:06 GMT -5
See, I could care less about the sports. I know the equipment is superior, but I'd still need the AM21 on at least two sets and the lack of HD networks is my sticking point. Honestly, if they get the missing channels I will leave in a second. I see they added DIY, but they still lack all the following and then some: Cooking Channel, G4, Fuse, GSN, Headline News, HUB, IFC, ID, LMN, Oxygen, Reelz, Style, TV Land and We Time Warner just crushes their HD line up. In most cases the channels you've listed just aren't on the list of ones people care about so in your case you're stuck it sounds like. Besides, I don't consider what TW shows "HD"... it's downright embarrassing to watch on anything over 40 inches. I have a friend with a UN60ES8000 and trees that are too tall to get DIRECTV and it's just a waste watching Time Warner's bit-starved MPEG2 feeds.
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Post by xzi on Sept 17, 2012 15:25:23 GMT -5
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Post by xzi on Sept 17, 2012 15:24:09 GMT -5
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Post by xzi on Sept 16, 2012 18:08:39 GMT -5
Right now, I've had it with TWC. Constant issues with the DVR boxes. I'm basically waiting for DirecTV to catch up to them with HD. If they get the few core HD channels I want, I'm gone fast! Which channels are you waiting for? DIRECTV is way ahead of TWC at this point and the few they don't have may have come in the last few months... they've launched 6 more in the last 5 weeks alone. BBCA, TCM, Disney Jr, Nat Geo Wild, BeIN and DIY are all HD now on DIRECTV
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Post by xzi on Apr 6, 2012 9:26:40 GMT -5
Looks like things are locked down pretty tight Not if you have DIRECTV and Road Runner only and these are the only channels you're missing
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Post by xzi on Jan 13, 2012 22:12:37 GMT -5
I'm guessing Giants fans will figure it out by 4:30 on Sunday.
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Post by xzi on Jan 6, 2012 16:19:33 GMT -5
From Saratoga Springs you'd need a decent OTA antenna it looks like. You're about 35 miles away or so, so a medium-directional UHF would be in order.
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Post by xzi on Jan 4, 2012 20:45:47 GMT -5
My brother-in-law has DIRECTV and I believe they do not have an HD version of that. He always switches to the MY4 OTA signal when Yanks are on haha. WNYA is not in HD on DIRECTV but if you mention it they will probably give you an AM21 OTA tuner with your HD-DVR and it will integrate right into the DIRECTV guide so it's still decent.
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Post by xzi on Jan 2, 2012 19:09:24 GMT -5
The only thing left keeping people from cord-cutting is live sports. DIRECTV gets that but it seems lost on every other provider.
If you have cable for sports at ALL, don't hesitate to switch to DIRECTV. They ALWAYS put sports as first priority, their sport package, PPV and technology (iPad app, dual-live buffered DVRs) prove it.
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Post by xzi on Dec 12, 2011 22:26:00 GMT -5
I use a tivo premiere and expect the PQ to be slightly less than live due to tivo compressing the live video and writing to hdd for the live video buffer. That said, since some chs look so nice I know the Tivo can't be a limiting factor in the PQ on some chs compared to others. So, either the feed Verizon receives the channel on has compression and they deliver that feed uncompressed to their customers, or they are adding compression (and claiming not to in advertising). I can't imagine it makes sense for TIVO (or any DVR) to further compress the signal in realtime like that just for space savings--it makes more sense for them to just write out the bits as they come in. Much faster and much less CPU cycles to do it that way.
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Post by xzi on Dec 12, 2011 22:24:01 GMT -5
FIOS doesn't re-compress their signal, they simply pass along whatever compressed signal they receive from that network, so that's what they mean by "uncompressed". A technicality and definitely a lie as far as I'm concerned but still better than the alternatives. In contrast, Time Warner will compress further the signal to fit into their bit-starved disaster of an MPEG-2 network and DIRECTV will compress everything as MPEG-4 for consistency and bandwidth.
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Post by xzi on Sept 22, 2011 22:02:13 GMT -5
So anything TW set to CCI byte 0x02 I think cannot be watched on the other PC? (like TNTHD or something) Exactly. The only exception is if you have a Windows Media Extender, like an XBox. For some reason you can stream to an XBox but not to another Windows 7 PC. That's the part that most people are annoyed by; it's a limitation that is completely self-imposed ... Microsoft could make it possible in Windows 7 but doesn't seem to care enough to do it. It's because the Extender/XBOX360 is just that, an extension of the PC. It is being used as a remote display to the PC that was originally used to record the content. At it's heart, it's almost an RDP (Remote Desktop) connection back to the PC--just with a dedicated audio/video channel. Since you aren't actually moving the file to a different PC, and since RDP is a secure encrypted path and the XBOX360/Extender platform is closed, the whole path adheres to HDCP and it must be enough to appease the gods of digital content
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