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NASA station rebroadcast on ATSC OTA
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Topic: | NASA station rebroadcast on ATSC OTA This thread has 11 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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Post 1 made on Monday August 8, 2005 at 11:19 |
barlow Active Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2004 535 |
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In the Raleigh NC area the local PBS station rebroadcast the NASA channel on one of PBS's multicast channels for the landing which of course did not take place.
But it was still cool to get the NASA station via OTA simulcast.
-DOn B
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Post 2 made on Monday August 8, 2005 at 16:27 |
alebowgm Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | March 2005 375 |
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That is one of the things I am hoping we will start to get more of with OTA ATSC, with some sub channels of other 'compelling' content, PBS with NASA, maybe have ABC start with ESPN or CBS with MTV...
Hey, one can only hope...
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Post 3 made on Tuesday August 9, 2005 at 07:34 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
Joined: Posts: | October 1998 28,781 |
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I don't like subchannels if they compromise HD quality. 20mbit is low for this type of encoding as it is...
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OP | Post 4 made on Tuesday August 9, 2005 at 11:58 |
barlow Active Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2004 535 |
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Daniel,
I expected you to reply sooner than this as I know how you dislike multichannels bandwidth robbing.
It is such a two edged sword for me. On one hand I appreciate that PBS bothers to rebroadcast NASA space channel . But on the other hand it bugs me to be watching PBS HD show and see the close on pixelation which occors because of the bandwidth being robbed for the multicast channels.
One thing that PBS does is when the are broadcasting HD OTA which is only between 8pm and 11pm here in Raleigh, NC they turn off broadcasting on all their other multicast channels except for one digital channel.
I am guessing that if they also turned off that last digital channel, my HD experience would be such that the close up digitization would dissappear.
-Don B
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Post 5 made on Wednesday August 10, 2005 at 12:38 |
Spiky Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | May 2001 2,288 |
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Mpls is great for this. PBS has 2 stations. So channel 2 digital is HD, all by itself. Channel 17 digital is 5 multicast SD channels. We get both, it's almost like there is someone with a brain working there. I haven't watched much yet to see how theHD pic is, but with some limited viewing it's been beautiful.
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OP | Post 6 made on Wednesday August 10, 2005 at 13:00 |
barlow Active Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2004 535 |
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Spiky,
Wow 2 stations now that is the way to go. And one devoted to HD !!
I assume here in Raleigh they just have the one ATSC broadcast station with the multi channels - but don't know for certain.
-Don
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Post 7 made on Wednesday August 10, 2005 at 21:25 |
alebowgm Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | March 2005 375 |
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MPLS?
I think everyone should be like that...
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Post 8 made on Wednesday August 10, 2005 at 23:00 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
Joined: Posts: | October 1998 28,781 |
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There used to be two PBS stations in Buffalo... alas before HD started one was sold and became a UPN affiliate. :-(
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Post 9 made on Thursday August 11, 2005 at 00:42 |
alebowgm Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | March 2005 375 |
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And what ever happened to the station that was a UPN affiliate?
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Post 10 made on Thursday August 11, 2005 at 01:51 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
Joined: Posts: | October 1998 28,781 |
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I'm pretty sure there wasn't one.
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Post 11 made on Thursday August 11, 2005 at 10:07 |
Spiky Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | May 2001 2,288 |
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In Minneapolis, 17 analog is mostly radar weather, with some PBS stuff in the evenings. 2 analog is the standard PBS station. So it worked out well when they added in digital channels. The 5 multicast stations on 17 digital are digital versions of the two analog channels, PBSKids, PBSYou and one other.
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Post 12 made on Thursday August 18, 2005 at 02:31 |
alebowgm Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | March 2005 375 |
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Before WNLO 23 was a UPN affiliate (and hence was a PBS station), the UPN affiliate in the Buffalo/Niagra area was WNGS-TV 67.
For the most part now, WNGS has nothing of major interest. It is off air from 12am-8am, and from 8am-12pm they are a Shop NBC affiliate. Throughout the day there are numoerus paid commercials, with their 5-7 programming consistanting of Recipe TV, Living Single, Martin and Cheers. They do air a local 7pm news cast.
Q: Who owns WNGS-TV? A: Unicorn Communications owns WNGS-TV
Q: Who runs WNGS-TV? A: B&C Communications, LLC. runs WNGS-TV.
Not sure if WNGS has any plans for Digital Transmission or not, but there was a UPN affiliate and I am sure that WNGS can find a lot of compelling content for sub stations OTA HDTV... I like the Raliegh idea...
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