HDTV OTA picture but no audio
 

Keys: HDTV no sound no audio

I'm posting this in case it can help someone else in the future.

I watch OTA (over the air) DTV on a Westinghouse LTV 32W6
LCD HDTV. Recently I tuned to the WLNE the ABC affiliate
in the New Bedford/Providence market. The channel 6.1 signal
was strong with a great HDTV picture but the audio was missing.

This was the case for at least 12 hours. All my other
DTV channels were fine including WLNE 6.2 its SD digital
channel. Also, sometimes the audio on 6.1 came in when the
broadcast was SD.

Finally I emailed the head station engineer who checked
into it and found that the transmitters Dolby decoder had
locked up. Apparently 'rebooting' the Dolby decoder fixed
the problem.

Before the fix I did Google search of HDTV "no audio" and
found a number of discussions by people who were experiencing
this problem in other markets for DAYS, and were trying to
workout the problem with their TV maker.

If you encounter this problem you might want to contact the
station first.

--
Rick Evans
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HDTV OTA picture but no audio
 

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
In article [email protected],
"Rick Evans" wrote:

I watch OTA (over the air) DTV on a Westinghouse LTV 32W6
LCD HDTV. Recently I tuned to the WLNE the ABC affiliate
in the New Bedford/Providence market. The channel 6.1 signal
was strong with a great HDTV picture but the audio was missing.

This was the case for at least 12 hours. All my other
DTV channels were fine including WLNE 6.2 its SD digital
channel. Also, sometimes the audio on 6.1 came in when the
broadcast was SD.

Finally I emailed the head station engineer who checked
into it and found that the transmitters Dolby decoder had
locked up. Apparently 'rebooting' the Dolby decoder fixed
the problem.

Before the fix I did Google search of HDTV "no audio" and
found a number of discussions by people who were experiencing
this problem in other markets for DAYS, and were trying to
workout the problem with their TV maker.

If you encounter this problem you might want to contact the
station first.

And this is the state of digital OTA transmission. This type of
thing
has happened around here quite a bit.

If that problem happened over their analog broadcast, there'd be
panic
in the station and every effort to fix it IMMEDIATELY.

But digital....well, they just don't pay attention to that too much.
In
fact, they pay no attention to it; they let those weirdo OTA digital

viewers be their watchdog, and will look into it if--IF--it's
brought to
their attention by one of said weirdos.

But if the weirdos aren't complaining, everything must be OK, right?

The attitude seems to be "just let it go, this digital stuff isn't
important like our analog broadcast".

Elmo clearly doesn't work in TV. Always easy to armchair quarterback.
Read this thread from March this year with particular attention to
Karl.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.t...29906b84d6e091

GG

HDTV OTA picture but no audio
 

"G-squared" wrote:

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
In article [email protected],
"Rick Evans" wrote:

I watch OTA (over the air) DTV on a Westinghouse LTV 32W6
LCD HDTV. Recently I tuned to the WLNE the ABC affiliate
in the New Bedford/Providence market. The channel 6.1 signal
was strong with a great HDTV picture but the audio was missing.

This was the case for at least 12 hours. All my other
DTV channels were fine including WLNE 6.2 its SD digital
channel. Also, sometimes the audio on 6.1 came in when the
broadcast was SD.

Finally I emailed the head station engineer who checked
into it and found that the transmitters Dolby decoder had
locked up. Apparently 'rebooting' the Dolby decoder fixed
the problem.

Before the fix I did Google search of HDTV "no audio" and
found a number of discussions by people who were experiencing
this problem in other markets for DAYS, and were trying to
workout the problem with their TV maker.

If you encounter this problem you might want to contact the
station first.

And this is the state of digital OTA transmission. This type of
thing
has happened around here quite a bit.

If that problem happened over their analog broadcast, there'd be
panic
in the station and every effort to fix it IMMEDIATELY.

But digital....well, they just don't pay attention to that too much.
In
fact, they pay no attention to it; they let those weirdo OTA digital

viewers be their watchdog, and will look into it if--IF--it's
brought to
their attention by one of said weirdos.

But if the weirdos aren't complaining, everything must be OK, right?

The attitude seems to be "just let it go, this digital stuff isn't
important like our analog broadcast".

Elmo clearly doesn't work in TV. Always easy to armchair quarterback.
Read this thread from March this year with particular attention to
Karl.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.t...29906b84d6e091

GG



Thats an interesting thread, but how does it refute Elmos comments..?

Same thing went on here in Phx on ABC everytime they switched between
the program and the commercials the sound went out. Took a year before
they figured out how to fix it.

Goes right back to my contention that present OTA digital is just
geeks watching Beta TV. The OTA broadcasters are working out the bugs
for the day when 97 percent of their audience goes away, and having
the sound go out for several hours is a BIG DEAL.

HDTV OTA picture but no audio
 

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" wrote in message
...
In article . com,
"G-squared" wrote:


What does that have to do with anything?

I repeat: they'd know IMMEDIATELY if something like that was wrong with
their analog transmission, because they're paying attention to it.

But nobody's paying attention to the digital broadcast. They assume
that no one--or maybe no one important--is watching, and that the
digital transmission doesn't deserve the respect that the analog
transmission does.

I agree with most of what you've said herein. That said,
WSBE 36, the RI,PBS station in the same market as ABC6
aforementioned has been off the air due to technical
problems for several days. They are analog. It doesn't
effect cable companies. I emailed them about it several days
ago but got no reply. Only yesterday did their website
acknowledge the problem. Seems the monitoring divide is as
much cable vs OTA as digital vs analog.

--
Rick Evans
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