Comments on: Upfront Week: ABC http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/ A pop culture blog by Mormons but not about Mormonism Sat, 26 May 2012 14:16:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29219 Sat, 17 May 2008 05:22:25 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29219 Dang – I didn’t notice that was from 2007! Which suck since they say there their stuff is in HD when it really isn’t!

With KBYU they are building a new building/studio over near where DT just got tore down. They said the old studio was falling apart with a lot of equipment out of date and held in place with duck tape. I suspect that they’re just updating all their equipment now that they need to do the HD transition. From what I could tell with their current signal it’s just Analog converted to digital in some final step which explains all the noise in their stuff. A lot of their shows, such as Curious George (my son’s favorite) have screwed up sound as well.

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29218 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:04:05 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29218 that KTVX page is not only difficult to navigate, but it hasn’t been updated in a year. Classy.

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29217 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:00:31 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29217 KUED has an entirely separate HD channel and it is pretty good. They have a Spanish language original programming channel as well. KBYU has four channels, none seem particularly compelling and the picture quality is poor.

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29216 Sat, 17 May 2008 02:43:43 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29216 They put up an HD schedule. Apparently KUED has HD broadcasts as well. Neither is showing up on Dish so I’m going to see if I can rig up an antenna to plug into my DishPVR. (It acts as an HD receiver and those channels are integrated in as if they were on Dish)

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29215 Fri, 16 May 2008 18:51:41 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29215 I had a cheap antenna. However I have a 3 and a half year old and a little girl almost ready to turn 2. Antennas are just too big a temptation for them. I’ll try the paper clip trick and see if it works…

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29214 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:35:23 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29214 Clark,

Buy a big-ass antenna and tell Dish where to go.

You probably live twice as far from the transmitter as I do. My antenna is a paper clip, I kid you not.

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29213 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:11:10 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29213 If it goes HD I wonder if Dish will pick it up. They just added a slew of more channels but dropped all the Voom channels. Unfortunately most of the new channels they added, such as Disney and Cartoon Network, don’t have any HD content. They are annoyingly just upconverting the SD content and then panning it into widescreen. (i.e. cutting off the top and bottom of the picture) Yeah I don’t really care if Scooby Doo is tweaked as my toddler watches it. But it is interesting they added all these channels as HD without HD content.

Strangely USA has some HD content on shows like Monk but not on others such as Burn Notice reruns.

The big annoyance is that several of the Voom networks they dropped were pretty good. Rave had some great concerts and then there was one (forget the name) that had a lot of skiing, kayaking and so forth I used to watch.

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29212 Fri, 16 May 2008 03:40:09 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29212 While I’m at it, my wife is watching Tivo’d Grey’s Anatomy right now off KTVX and it is clearly HD.

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29211 Thu, 15 May 2008 19:12:53 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29211 heck if I know, it doesn’t make any sense to me. One of the hosts of Good Things Utah lives us the street and I’ve asked her when they were going HD. She didn’t know.

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2008/05/13/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29210 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:51:26 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2008/05/upfront-week-abc/#comment-29210 John, why then don’t they show Lost in 720p? (And why doesn’t Dish pick up KTVX as HD?)

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