On April 22, 2008 at 07:35, Bruce H.Campbell said...
As I said I still can't get CHCH-DT here in Welland,in
the AVS forum my usergroup did say that my tuner is long-in-the-tooth
but the card can't be beat in playing back and organizing
tp/ts files, so maybe I'll get the Fusion and see how
it goes.
I've done scans, added the D18 manually in MyHD and all
I get is the empty strength bar and a flashing Dolby 5.1
indication.
Yeah, I blame PSIP. According to the "
Nazis" (heh!) over at DHC, Canwest Global's engineers at their national broadcast centre in Calgary claim PSIP information is locally inserted at each transmitter site, so I'm tempted to email a contact I have at CHCH to complain. People who say "ohh, your tuner is too old" and stuff are wrong; ATSC is a standard and more recent generations of the core chipset do nothing different except better tune more noisy (i.e. ghost-ridden) signals. It's not as if every set-top box, TV, computer tuner, etc. is going to require a firmware upgrade every 2 years.
Since others say CHCH-DT has changed PSIP to 11.1, today, and I think if people like us don't speak up about problems it has with certain tuners, we'll never be watching their DTV signal.
I blame the pitiful low power outputs that the CDN stations are
getting away with. We need to rally and force them(all)
to up it to a minimum 100Kw!!!!
Indeed... it's pathetic, really.
