That is the only thing good about this for me. It will be a whole lot more pleasant for me to be up on the roof when it is 100F instead of 0F if I need to point the antenna at Indiana to get ABC when it changes frequency here.
DRM is there in OTA ATSC as the broadcast flag. On Jan 20th on WFLD FOX Chicago I was unable to record American Idol at 7 PM. It seemed to be an accident as I was able to record the next day.
Amplified antennas most certainly do. I use just this setup. Are you sure you are not putting the amp too far away from the antenna or are using an incorrect balum?
The DTV converter boxes do not decode some SD sub channel or what not. They take a channel like 11.1 and convert that to analog.
On this point I agree with you but I want to clarify. I live 50-60 miles from the towers. Even though I have a huge rooftop antenna, good cable, and a good amp, with the analog OTA I had not the best picture on some channels. With ATSC OTA, it is very good but sometimes the weather can get me to experience some glitches. I am lucky, I am on the fringe. I have to get my TV from two different states. People that lived with more snow with analog in the same fringe area I am in will just get a black screen with digital. I had to spend a lot of money and time replacing my setup to get it to where it is.
I can very easily see the artifacts in ATSC (and QAM for the six months I had it). I have had my first digital tuner for five years now. They have made great strides, but I still see the effects. Sports was very bad initially, it still has problems, but in the past in football when a long pass or kick was taking place, the ball would disappear and reappear across the screen.
On Jan 20th WFLD in Chicago enabled the broadcast flag for American Idol. My wife missed the first 30 minutes of the program because of that. The VCR recording was unwatchable. My DTV converter box obviously respects the broadcast flag and plays with the AGC on my VCR in that case.
All of that is completely false. I think the poster is confused about some things he read about VHS and the doomed SVHS. None of that reflects on characteristics of component or s-video themselves.
not if the VCR has AGC and it almost certainly does
If the DTV converter box sees the broadcast flag it will play with the signal coming-out. Most VCRs will get confused by that and you will get a very dark picture recorded at best.
I got a Magnavox from Sears. I have it plugged into a TV/VCR/DVD combo set. My wife watches American Idol on FOX WFLD Chicago. Last night she was going to be home about a half hour after the start of the show so I popped in a tape and hit record. After the show she wanted to watch the beginning so she rewound the tape and pressed play. The picture was B&W with lots of static the audio was fine until the TV screen turned black and text came-up that said to clean the heads, then the tape stopped playing. This was a brand new VHS tape. Just a few days before I recorded a program from WTTW 11 PBS (I tried both 11.1 and 11.2) and the inauguration partly from from NBC and CBS earlier that morning. All of that worked properly. My wife told me about it and I thought something was wrong with the tape, I rewound it, and successfully recorded a portion of Leno.
Today I am going to try FOX again. If this is the broadcast flag, I am displeased. I thought an agreement had been reached to not use it. Who are people that I should contact about this? Also are there any boxes that ignore the broadcast flag? My brother had no problem recording American Idol from Comcast cable with his Comcast DVR the same night.
I believe that this is macrovision. I made a comment a while back that I did not think what someone saw was macrovision, but now I am not sure:
What I saw was not the color oscillation he/she saw, nor was it like what I have seen with macrovision before, but the audio was perfect so that is very strange if it was something like a cable. My wife said it looked fine when she was watching the second half live. I am going to experiment more tonight.
There are a few commenters that are saying that the HOA come in before you buy the place. I almost got nailed by this when buying my last home. We were going to buy a place. Everyone said there was no HOA but it seemed strange to me since there was daycare on the corner and usually when that happens there are covenants drawn-up and where there are covenants there are usually HOAs as well. I did some digging at the County and it turned-out that the subdivision originally had a different name. The name was changed because it was very similar to a nearby much larger subdivision. I found all the covenants and in deed there was a HOA. So we did not buy the place. All it takes is one nut in a HOA to make trouble and that is what happened at the home we were living at before moving and one of the primary reasons for the move.
The other interesting thing is that it need not be a HOA that restricts you unnecessarily. When we moved in to the village (the home in a HOA) rules were lax, by the time we had left notable changes were that you were no longer allowed to have an RV on your property out in the open and were only allowed one small recreational vehicle (motorcycle, snowmobile, jet ski) outside in your backyard and it could not be on a trailer. Talk about IL Nazis.
Well this shows how dated I am. You are absolutely right. PyQt for Qt 4 is available under GPL, I just checked. Qt used to be that there was a different codebase for Windows and that was not released under the GPL. In Qt 4 that all changed. I never learned until just now that PyQt had made the Windows version available under the GPL as well when you use Qt 4. I should have realized that it would have had to. Thanks for letting me know. I made a bunch of decisions back in '98 that lead me to (the then named) wxWindows. I may have to reevaluate now in light of LGPL Qt and GPL PyQt.
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I had problem after problem trying to use wxArt2d on a Mac, it was so bad that in the end I just did what I had to with my with DCs myself.
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All true, plus for about the last two years Qt has seemed much less buggy than wxWidgets. The whole Qt on Windows quagmire is what got me onto wxWidgets in the first place, I may do a lot less wxWidgets in the future now.
You need to buy the commercial version of PyQt if you want to target Windows. All other platforms are GPL or commercial. I wonder if this action by Nokia will have any effect on Riverbank Computing? Most likely not in the short term.
There may also be a sinister rationale to keeping him away from the blackberry. Think how out of touch Bush Jr. became. There may be people pushing advisors to recommend dropping the blackberry for cya reasons, but the reason to them is really so that the president loses touch with what people outside of the political circle around him would like him to see.
Princess Beatrice recently had her car stolen while she was under full security detail. One of the security people should have noticed that she left the keys in the car, but no one did.
Maybe someone can answer this. i read somewhere that DIRECT 2.0 has no plan for getting out to the moon and beyond, new engines would need to be developed in that case but Ares is more realistic for reaching that goal. I do not remember why. Can someone fill me in on the details?
And another nice aspect was that at some point or other I did my development on Mac, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. With the iphone you are tied to a mac. Plus the only thing you needed approval for was 32 bit creator and program codes. This entailed logging into a website and asking and they would do a select in their DB and say fine or not. Apple approves or denies everything, even if you get to do dev at all. That was a fun time, but man were the first couple of revisions of the network stack buggy!
I had a promo deal for cable for six months. The service was so terrible from Comcast that I canceled. It was most definitely not worth $50 a month. Except for that, since 1995 I have been OTA only.
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That is the only thing good about this for me. It will be a whole lot more pleasant for me to be up on the roof when it is 100F instead of 0F if I need to point the antenna at Indiana to get ABC when it changes frequency here.
My coupon DTV converter box does in fact do macrovision. I found this out the hard way on Tuesday. The details are here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1099913&cid=26554015
Could you provide a link to some of the AVR forum posts? I think I ran into the broadcast flag this two days ago and want to read up.
DRM is there in OTA ATSC as the broadcast flag. On Jan 20th on WFLD FOX Chicago I was unable to record American Idol at 7 PM. It seemed to be an accident as I was able to record the next day.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1099913&cid=26554015
Amplified antennas most certainly do. I use just this setup. Are you sure you are not putting the amp too far away from the antenna or are using an incorrect balum?
There is some confusion in your post.
The DTV converter boxes do not decode some SD sub channel or what not. They take a channel like 11.1 and convert that to analog.
On this point I agree with you but I want to clarify. I live 50-60 miles from the towers. Even though I have a huge rooftop antenna, good cable, and a good amp, with the analog OTA I had not the best picture on some channels. With ATSC OTA, it is very good but sometimes the weather can get me to experience some glitches. I am lucky, I am on the fringe. I have to get my TV from two different states. People that lived with more snow with analog in the same fringe area I am in will just get a black screen with digital. I had to spend a lot of money and time replacing my setup to get it to where it is.
I can very easily see the artifacts in ATSC (and QAM for the six months I had it). I have had my first digital tuner for five years now. They have made great strides, but I still see the effects. Sports was very bad initially, it still has problems, but in the past in football when a long pass or kick was taking place, the ball would disappear and reappear across the screen.
On Jan 20th WFLD in Chicago enabled the broadcast flag for American Idol. My wife missed the first 30 minutes of the program because of that. The VCR recording was unwatchable. My DTV converter box obviously respects the broadcast flag and plays with the AGC on my VCR in that case.
All of that is completely false. I think the poster is confused about some things he read about VHS and the doomed SVHS. None of that reflects on characteristics of component or s-video themselves.
not if the VCR has AGC and it almost certainly does
If the DTV converter box sees the broadcast flag it will play with the signal coming-out. Most VCRs will get confused by that and you will get a very dark picture recorded at best.
More details on this:
My model is a TB100MG9
I had no problem recording American Idol last night with everything else the same as before. The tape was rewound to the same location as well.
I have a strong suspicion that WFLD had the broadcast flag on by mistake.
I got a Magnavox from Sears. I have it plugged into a TV/VCR/DVD combo set. My wife watches American Idol on FOX WFLD Chicago. Last night she was going to be home about a half hour after the start of the show so I popped in a tape and hit record. After the show she wanted to watch the beginning so she rewound the tape and pressed play. The picture was B&W with lots of static the audio was fine until the TV screen turned black and text came-up that said to clean the heads, then the tape stopped playing. This was a brand new VHS tape. Just a few days before I recorded a program from WTTW 11 PBS (I tried both 11.1 and 11.2) and the inauguration partly from from NBC and CBS earlier that morning. All of that worked properly. My wife told me about it and I thought something was wrong with the tape, I rewound it, and successfully recorded a portion of Leno.
Today I am going to try FOX again. If this is the broadcast flag, I am displeased. I thought an agreement had been reached to not use it. Who are people that I should contact about this? Also are there any boxes that ignore the broadcast flag? My brother had no problem recording American Idol from Comcast cable with his Comcast DVR the same night.
I believe that this is macrovision. I made a comment a while back that I did not think what someone saw was macrovision, but now I am not sure:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?threshold=-1&mode=nocomment&commentsort=3&op=Change&sid=1081977&cid=26344959&pid=26344959
What I saw was not the color oscillation he/she saw, nor was it like what I have seen with macrovision before, but the audio was perfect so that is very strange if it was something like a cable. My wife said it looked fine when she was watching the second half live. I am going to experiment more tonight.
These were not eligible for the coupon.
I did too, I have not played it since the '80s but it had a very nice intro and was sort of like three games in one for the actual game part.
Scott Murphy had a difficult relationship with both Sierra and Mark Crowe, he seems to hold grudges, and sort of rambles honestly:
http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/234/
There are a few commenters that are saying that the HOA come in before you buy the place. I almost got nailed by this when buying my last home. We were going to buy a place. Everyone said there was no HOA but it seemed strange to me since there was daycare on the corner and usually when that happens there are covenants drawn-up and where there are covenants there are usually HOAs as well. I did some digging at the County and it turned-out that the subdivision originally had a different name. The name was changed because it was very similar to a nearby much larger subdivision. I found all the covenants and in deed there was a HOA. So we did not buy the place. All it takes is one nut in a HOA to make trouble and that is what happened at the home we were living at before moving and one of the primary reasons for the move.
The other interesting thing is that it need not be a HOA that restricts you unnecessarily. When we moved in to the village (the home in a HOA) rules were lax, by the time we had left notable changes were that you were no longer allowed to have an RV on your property out in the open and were only allowed one small recreational vehicle (motorcycle, snowmobile, jet ski) outside in your backyard and it could not be on a trailer. Talk about IL Nazis.
Or he could put uuencode and split on a thumb drive.
Well this shows how dated I am. You are absolutely right. PyQt for Qt 4 is available under GPL, I just checked. Qt used to be that there was a different codebase for Windows and that was not released under the GPL. In Qt 4 that all changed. I never learned until just now that PyQt had made the Windows version available under the GPL as well when you use Qt 4. I should have realized that it would have had to. Thanks for letting me know. I made a bunch of decisions back in '98 that lead me to (the then named) wxWindows. I may have to reevaluate now in light of LGPL Qt and GPL PyQt.
I had problem after problem trying to use wxArt2d on a Mac, it was so bad that in the end I just did what I had to with my with DCs myself.
All true, plus for about the last two years Qt has seemed much less buggy than wxWidgets. The whole Qt on Windows quagmire is what got me onto wxWidgets in the first place, I may do a lot less wxWidgets in the future now.
You need to buy the commercial version of PyQt if you want to target Windows. All other platforms are GPL or commercial. I wonder if this action by Nokia will have any effect on Riverbank Computing? Most likely not in the short term.
There may also be a sinister rationale to keeping him away from the blackberry. Think how out of touch Bush Jr. became. There may be people pushing advisors to recommend dropping the blackberry for cya reasons, but the reason to them is really so that the president loses touch with what people outside of the political circle around him would like him to see.
Princess Beatrice recently had her car stolen while she was under full security detail. One of the security people should have noticed that she left the keys in the car, but no one did.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/4165229/Thieves-steal-Princess-Beatrices-BMW-after-she-left-keys-in-ignition.html
Maybe someone can answer this. i read somewhere that DIRECT 2.0 has no plan for getting out to the moon and beyond, new engines would need to be developed in that case but Ares is more realistic for reaching that goal. I do not remember why. Can someone fill me in on the details?
And another nice aspect was that at some point or other I did my development on Mac, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. With the iphone you are tied to a mac. Plus the only thing you needed approval for was 32 bit creator and program codes. This entailed logging into a website and asking and they would do a select in their DB and say fine or not. Apple approves or denies everything, even if you get to do dev at all. That was a fun time, but man were the first couple of revisions of the network stack buggy!
Radio
I had a promo deal for cable for six months. The service was so terrible from Comcast that I canceled. It was most definitely not worth $50 a month. Except for that, since 1995 I have been OTA only.