[shedberg]

Anyone else in the Knoxville, TN area having a problem with pixelation on the local HD and SD channels?

 

[CraigT1]

Big time problems on both ABC and NBC HD and SD(two different types of DVR's). My wife doesn't watch CBS much so don't know about that. I had my system installed in April and everything was great but it's slowly gotten worse(alignment still looks good). The last few weeks have been really bad overall and not getting better. I'm placing a call to DirectTV today to see what they have to say.

Craig

 

[stecoff]

I've seen WATE and WBIR both freezing and breaking up the last couple of days. I checked the same channels OTA and it was doing the same thing so does not appear to be a D* problem, Just my observation.

 

[mcbeevee]

I noticed it on WATE-HD during the 6pm news this week. There is always a few seconds of pixelation during Letterman on WVLT-HD. I would have thought the local stations would have all the kinks worked out by now since the digital transition is only 6 months away!

 

[stecoff]

For what it's worth, 6 and 10 look good this morning, both OTA and D*. I'm about 30 miles from the towers so any problems show up well on OTA. Hopefully they have worked out the problems.

 

[shedberg]

For what it's worth, 6 and 10 look good this morning, both OTA and D*. I'm about 30 miles from the towers so any problems show up well on OTA. Hopefully they have worked out the problems.

Yes, they are both looking okay now but unwatchable earlier this morning.

 

[CraigT1]

I talked with several very impressive CSR's last night and the second one found some info that showed both the ABC and NBC local stations have been working on problems for awhile now.
I saw a lot of breaking up on NBC this morning so I hooked up some rabbit ears to the HR20 and see the same problem using OTA. Cable is working OK(looking at Olympics). It is definitely noisier though. It obviously(at least to me) is a problem with our local stations and not DirectTV. Pretty sad really that they are having so many problems(probably getting ready for 2009).

Craig

 

[Matt9876]

They have had issues for over two weeks now and are working to correct the problems.

Last week channel 6 was off the air two mornings in a row around 8AM,DirecTV and Dish had banners up saying it was a local issue.

 

[techrep]

They have had issues for over two weeks now and are working to correct the problems.

Last week channel 6 was off the air two mornings in a row around 8AM,DirecTV and Dish had banners up saying it was a local issue.

And I thought that my wife was just crazy. :lol: