Portland, OR locals problem

[Boleyc]

Is anyone else in the Portland, OR market seeing any issues with local channels lately? Both HD and SD versions of the channels have a lot of freezing, pixelation and most frequently, audio dropouts. I have excellent signals on most of the transponders on 103 (s), but I'm not sure if all of the non-NA transponders should be reading at high levels. Any advice? Thanks!

[wdodd]

I'm having the same problem with the local Portland channels. Glad to know that I'm not the only one.

[johnd55]

I am having the same problem. KPTV seems to be the worst.

[Boleyc]

Yes, good to know others are having issues. Now the question is who do we complain to? DirecTV?

[stansher]

Yes, good to know others are having issues. Now the question is who do we complain to? DirecTV?

I did complain, they wanted to send a tech out to check my eqipment. I told them that I was not the only one having this problem They said they would check it out and get back to me. I have noticed that the problem occurs for 5-10 minutes and then goes away .

[buckZor]

Im getting audio behind the video, is that what you guys mean by drop outs? Was really bad on the last Terminator, in HD on KPTV

[Boleyc]

Im getting audio behind the video, is that what you guys mean by drop outs?

No, more like no sound at all for 3-4 seconds.

[archer75]

Allow me to hijack the thread for a moment...

Does Direct now have all Portland Locals in HD? I checked on their website and they aren't showing all of them in HD.

[frederic1943]

I get the same thing on OTA. The DirecTV signal seems to have less problems than OTA.

[Boleyc]

Allow me to hijack the thread for a moment...

Does Direct now have all Portland Locals in HD? I checked on their website and they aren't showing all of them in HD.

Nope, still missing CBS (KOIN).

[harsh]

Does Direct now have all Portland Locals in HD? I checked on their website and they aren't showing all of them in HD.DIRECTV offers KATU, KGW and KPTV. They also offer FSN-NW to those who are subscribed to such packages.

The definitive resource for this is here: http://hr20.dbstalk.com/html/DIRECTV_lil_list.html

[harsh]

Was really bad on the last Terminator, in HD on KPTVThe OTA version was essentially flawless.

[Boleyc]

The OTA version was essentially flawless.

This makes me believe the problems I'm seeing are re-transmission issues at DirecTV?

[Eksynyt]

Definitely have been having this problem a bunch too. Why does Portland seem to have the worst luck with DirecTV?

[cravingsunshine]

Count me in as well. Fox and ABC are the ones that I have personally noticed.