HDTV Audio and Anti-Glare

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:34:06 -0400, "Dave Lee"
wrote:

Do you ever use closed-captioning? Indispensible, sometimes.


My wife uses it on occasion. Would love to get rid of it.

Huh? You would love to not give her the option to turn it on?

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

"Howard Brazee" wrote in message ...
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:34:06 -0400, "Dave Lee"
wrote:

Do you ever use closed-captioning? Indispensible, sometimes.


My wife uses it on occasion. Would love to get rid of it.

Huh? You would love to not give her the option to turn it on?


No - she controls the remote and CC.

WE would love to get rid of it. Any other conclusion on your part was not based on what I wrote.

dave

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:58:10 -0400, RickMerrill
wrote:

My wife's TV doesn't use a cable box. But it still uses Cable. She
has to remember to change from channel 7 to 7-1 and from 13 to 30-1.
Worse, she watches The Food Channel 95% of the time, and we haven't
been able to find the HDTV version of that without using a cable box.

It may vary depending on hee you are located:
Try 75.5

No luck (Comcast Boulder, CO)

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Howard Brazee wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:58:10 -0400, RickMerrill
wrote:

My wife's TV doesn't use a cable box. But it still uses Cable. She
has to remember to change from channel 7 to 7-1 and from 13 to 30-1.
Worse, she watches The Food Channel 95% of the time, and we haven't
been able to find the HDTV version of that without using a cable box.

It may vary depending on hee you are located:
Try 75.5

No luck (Comcast Boulder, CO)


Try http://www.fancast.com/comcast-tv-listings
and enter your zip code to find the call letters.
THen surf through the channels ...

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:54:13 -0400, RickMerrill
wrote:

It may vary depending on hee you are located:
Try 75.5

No luck (Comcast Boulder, CO)


Try http://www.fancast.com/comcast-tv-listings
and enter your zip code to find the call letters.
THen surf through the channels ...

That already knew my zip - I have entered it before. It gives me the
cable box channels, not the dash channels. We have the cable box on
one TV, and can watch HDTV Food channel there. My wife's smaller TV
next to her computer doesn't have a cable box, so she goes to 9-1 for
the HDTV version of 9. But she watches mostly the food channel,
and we haven't found it in HDTV without using the cable box.


--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Howard Brazee wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:54:13 -0400, RickMerrill
wrote:

It may vary depending on hee you are located:
Try 75.5
No luck (Comcast Boulder, CO)

Try http://www.fancast.com/comcast-tv-listings
and enter your zip code to find the call letters.
THen surf through the channels ...

That already knew my zip - I have entered it before. It gives me the
cable box channels, not the dash channels. We have the cable box on
one TV, and can watch HDTV Food channel there. My wife's smaller TV
next to her computer doesn't have a cable box, so she goes to 9-1 for
the HDTV version of 9. But she watches mostly the food channel,
and we haven't found it in HDTV without using the cable box.



In the US you can bypass the cable box and go straight to the tv digital
tuner - then you have to surf for the call letters to find out the dash
channels (I use dot myself).

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:54:52 -0400, RickMerrill
wrote:

In the US you can bypass the cable box and go straight to the tv digital
tuner - then you have to surf for the call letters to find out the dash
channels (I use dot myself).

Maybe in theory. In practice I haven't been able to find the Food
channel on my Boulder, CO Comcast cable.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Howard Brazee wrote:

That already knew my zip - I have entered it before. It gives me the
cable box channels, not the dash channels. We have the cable box on
one TV, and can watch HDTV Food channel there. My wife's smaller TV
next to her computer doesn't have a cable box, so she goes to 9-1 for
the HDTV version of 9. But she watches mostly the food channel,
and we haven't found it in HDTV without using the cable box.

Go to Zap2it.com and enter your zip code and click on "LOCAL BROADCAST."
The "dash channels" will be given, not the cable box channels.

Howard Brazee wrote:

In the US you can bypass the cable box and go straight to the tv digital
tuner - then you have to surf for the call letters to find out the dash
channels (I use dot myself).

Maybe in theory. In practice I haven't been able to find the Food
channel on my Boulder, CO Comcast cable.

Perhaps the Food Channel is encrypted? Cable channels usually are.

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:01:16 -0700, UCLAN wrote:

Go to Zap2it.com and enter your zip code and click on "LOCAL BROADCAST."
The "dash channels" will be given, not the cable box channels.

Here's the odd thing - the Food Channel isn't a locally broadcast
channel, so we need cable to get it. But she can find it on channel
47 from Comcast without using the box. What we can't find is the
Cable Box 681, Food-HD.

They could be scrambling 681 but not 47. Or maybe it just is a
result of not being able to tune to stations that high.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison