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TVGOS in Toronto
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Post 1 made on Sunday August 21, 2011 at 07:29
bmac.to
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Currently CTV is the host for analog TVGOS in Toronto. WNED (PBS) hosts a digital TVGOS for Buffalo. Does anybody know what will happen at the end of August? Will CTV host a digital version of TVGOS? Or not host anything at all? Another channel?

Thanks.
Post 2 made on Sunday August 21, 2011 at 18:54
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I'm sure they'll go to digital like WNED did.
Post 3 made on Monday September 5, 2011 at 01:43
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Are you sure???

Over 216 views and no response yet.
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OP | Post 4 made on Monday September 5, 2011 at 12:57
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From what I can tell, it still appears that the CTV analog TVGOS is still working (although I dont really know how many days buffer it has so if it has stopped, perhaps it will take me a while to know).
Post 5 made on Monday September 5, 2011 at 13:20
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Apparentlt it does, no means to check. The following is the CFTO HD full parsing of TSReader taken from [Link: rabbitears.info] which BTW is also listing CKVR as a digital TVGOS. At the end of the list on that webpage you will see several other CTV stations accross canada that already are an active digital TVGOS host.

I highlighted the whooping over 16 Mbps video bitrate that signal had when parsed and also the full bitrate at 19.42 Mbps. Also the section for the TVGOS service.  The null packets at the end are needed to always fill the gap between (how do you spell this man!, lol) the maximum bitrate 19.42 and the actual one depending on the video scene (less motion less info to broadcast). Hardcore digital broadcast fans will rejoice with this TSReader info I guess. All you need is a PC based ATSC tuner and the software TSReader.

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Program Association Table
PAT Version Number: 6
Transport Stream ID: 17315 (0x43a3)

PMT PID 48 (0x0030) - Program 1 CFTO

Program Map Table(s)
Program Number: 1 CFTO
Descriptor: ATSC Component Name Descriptor
Component Name:
PCR PID: 49


Stream Type: 0x02 MPEG-2 Video PID 49 (0x0031)
MPEG Video: Bitrate 16.674 Mbps Resolution 1920 x 1080i
MPEG Video: Framerate 29.97 fps Aspect Ratio 16:9 Chroma Format 4:2:0
Descriptor: Data Stream Alignment Descriptor
Alignment type: video access unit

Stream Type: 0x81 AC-3 Audio PID 51 (0x0033)
AC3: Bitrate 384 Kbps Sample Rate 48 KHz
AC3: Mode complete main Coding 3/2 5 L, C, R, SL, SR
AC3: Center Mix Level -3.0 dB Surround Mix Level -3.0 dB
AC3: LFE Mode On Dialogue normalization -26 dB
Descriptor: Registration Descriptor
Format identifier: 0x41432d33 (AC-3)
Descriptor: ATSC Component Name Descriptor
Component Name: Primary Audio
Descriptor: ATSC AC-3 audio Descriptor
ATSC AC3 Descriptor
Descriptor: ISO639 Language Descriptor
Language: eng
Audio type: undefined

Stream Type: 0x81 AC-3 Audio PID 52 (0x0034)
AC3: Bitrate 128 Kbps Sample Rate 48 KHz
AC3: Mode complete main Coding 2/0 L, R
AC3: Dolby Surround Mode not indicated
AC3: LFE Mode Off Dialogue normalization -27 dB
Descriptor: Registration Descriptor
Format identifier: 0x41432d33 (AC-3)
Descriptor: ATSC Component Name Descriptor
Component Name: Secondary Audio
Descriptor: ATSC AC-3 audio Descriptor
ATSC AC3 Descriptor
Descriptor: ISO639 Language Descriptor
Language: eng
Audio type: undefined

Stream Type: 0x05 ISO/IEC 13818-1 private_sections PID 273 (0x0111)
Descriptor: Registration Descriptor
Format identifier: 0x54564731 (TVG1)
Descriptor: Private Data Indicator Descriptor
64 61 74 61 data

Stream Type: 0x06 Teletext/VBI PID 272 (0x0110)
Descriptor: VBI Data Descriptor
fb 08 ed ee ef f0 cd ce cf d0 ..........

Terrestrial Virtual Channel Table
Channel 1
Service Name: CFTO
TSID: 17315 (0x43a3)
Channel Number: 9.1
Carrier Frequency: 186
Modulation Mode: ATSC (8 VSB)
Source ID: 1
Descriptor: ATSC Service Location Descriptor
Service Location Descriptor:
PCR PID 49
Stream Type 0x02 (MPEG-2 Video) ESPID = 49 Language =
Stream Type 0x81 (AC-3 Audio) ESPID = 51 Language = eng
Stream Type 0x81 (AC-3 Audio) ESPID = 52 Language = eng

MPEG-2 Statistics
Table Sections Processed CRC Errors
PAT 164 0
CAT 0 0
PMT 39 0
ETT 132 0
PSIP 173 0
EIT 48 0

Continuity errors: 0
TEI errors: 0
Sync Losses: 0
Calculated multiplex rate: 19421598 bps

General Information
Source: ATSC BDA Source
Tuner: Channel 9 (189 Mhz)
Signal: Locked: 100% (-10.000 dBm)
Network Type: ATSC
Run Time: 000:00:16

PID Usage Chart
0 (0.08% ~ 0.02 Mbps)
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0 MPEG-2 Program Assocation Table
48 (0.02% ~ 0.00 Mbps)
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48 MPEG-2 PMT for program 1
49 (88.37% - 17.16 Mbps)
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49 MPEG-2 Video for program 1
51 (2.03% ~ 0.39 Mbps)
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51 AC-3 Audio for program 1
52 (0.68% ~ 0.13 Mbps)
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52 AC-3 Audio for program 1
272 (0.23% ~ 0.05 Mbps)
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272 Teletext/VBI for program 1
273 (0.14% ~ 0.03 Mbps)
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273 ISO/IEC 13818-1 private_sections for program 1
7424 (0.03% ~ 0.01 Mbps)
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7424 ATSC EIT-0
7425 (0.01% ~ 0.00 Mbps)
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7425 ATSC EIT-1
7426 (0.01% ~ 0.00 Mbps)
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7426 ATSC EIT-2
7427 (0.01% ~ 0.00 Mbps)
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7427 ATSC EIT-3
7680 (0.03% ~ 0.01 Mbps)
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7680 ATSC Event ETT-0
7681 (0.02% ~ 0.00 Mbps)
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7681 ATSC Event ETT-1
7682 (0.01% ~ 0.00 Mbps)
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7682 ATSC Event ETT-2
7683 (0.01% ~ 0.00 Mbps)
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7683 ATSC Event ETT-3
7808 (0.01% ~ 0.00 Mbps)
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7808 ATSC Channel ETT
8187 (0.08% ~ 0.02 Mbps)
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8187 ATSC Base PID (TVCT, MGT, RT, STT)
8191 (8.22% ~ 1.60 Mbps)
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8191 MPEG-2 NULL Packet
Post 6 made on Saturday February 16, 2013 at 22:08
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It appears CFTO has stopped supplying TVGOS data as of last Wednesday.

Anyone confirm this?
Years from now, you might as well kiss recording OTA TV goodbye thanks to ATSC 3
Post 7 made on Sunday February 17, 2013 at 05:29
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Looks like it. I have data up to Thursday 3AM and then nada. This past Thursday I also had a power outage, and the clock on my Sony DHG-HDD500 hasn't come back (meaning the whole thing is now useless for anything except being a dumb live TV tuner).
Post 8 made on Tuesday February 19, 2013 at 16:11
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I haven't looked too far ahead, but the TV guide on my Pioneer Kuro is off by about an hour and the clock has not reset, might have been around Thursday for us too.
Great no more on screen TV guide, have to find a good web site and use PIP I guess.
Post 9 made on Tuesday February 19, 2013 at 18:36
Daniel Tonks
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This is a big problem for the Sony DHG series, because they failed to put in a method of manually setting the clock... and what use is a DVR without a clock?

Even more annoying, the network jack that would've allowed internet updates was cost-cut before production. You can still see the blank space on the board and the cutout in the back of the case.


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