KFOR in HD?

[Matt]

Tonight's the night: Linda Cavanaugh in all her high-definition glory.

This is the reason I bought my HDTV, right here.

[Thunder]

Looked at Days of our Lives....no CC on the HD channel. If any, it is very messed up with choppy, quick movement then disappear. There was not any CC on the KFOR nooncast. This is why I do not watch the HD channels.

Only exception is the KOCO HD channel. They got it to work perfectly and smooth. The text size is right and it reads out from end to end on the screen. I watch that channel when OU Sooners is shown on KOCO.

[drum4no1]

Well as a longtime KWTV viewer I was impressed with the KFOR HD news last night. I will watch it more often now, at least until KWTV goes HD.

To stretch or not to stretch, that is now the question.

Shouldnt be a reason to stretch, KFOR news is in a 16:9 format, however there will still be some SD video content and then you will see the blue bars.

Syndicated HD programming is still away off, until they have an HD playback server on the program playback automation

[duckman]

Cavanaugh doesn't look half bad in HD. I was secretly hoping to see every line, wrinkle and face lift scar
Meg Alexander actually looks worse.

[drumsncode]

Cavanaugh doesn't look half bad in HD. I was secretly hoping to see every line, wrinkle and face lift scar
Meg Alexander actually looks worse.

I give credit to Linda. It takes some serious guts to put your face up there in Hi-Def in front of an entire state. She looked just fine on a standard TV, and even on a standard TV, the picture looks better, more vibrant. Before the change, it seemed that KFOR was the blurriest station of the big three, even when sending a digital signal.

Now Linda can kick back and relax, while her competition starts to sweat about Hi-Def, wondering what all the viewers are going to say the day after they launch it. Linda doesn't make a living trying to be a hottie anchor, so the pressure is off. Funny too, she's kicking butt and taking names in the ratings, while women 20 years younger are wondering what it takes to beat her.

She's been anchoring about 30 years! That's legendary status in my book.

[Matt]

She's been anchoring about 30 years!

. . .and looks every bit of it.

Really though, she looked okay last night. KFOR must have upgraded to high-definition cheesecloth for the Lindacam.

And during Kevin Ogle's "The Rant," someone wrote in to say how good she looked in high-def. (Say, that wasn't you, was it, "drumsncode"?) It was all I could do to keep my dinner down.

[bretthexum]

Yep. I am guessing other stations will be quick to switch to HD now. I wonder if Chopper 4 will be converted to HD as well?

[bsmall]

Yep. I am guessing other stations will be quick to switch to HD now. I wonder if Chopper 4 will be converted to HD as well?

I hope so.

It's funny,
KOCO has "advantage doppler HD" which isn't HD, and
KWTV has "Sky News 9 HD" which has a high def camera, but has never been broadcasted in HD.

[drumsncode]

. . .and looks every bit of it.

Really though, she looked okay last night. KFOR must have upgraded to high-definition cheesecloth for the Lindacam.

And during Kevin Ogle's "The Rant," someone wrote in to say how good she looked in high-def. (Say, that wasn't you, was it, "drumsncode"?) It was all I could do to keep my dinner down.

No, it wasn't me. My mother told me about that on the phone today! I don't actually watch KFOR, I just peek in once in a blue moon to see what they're up to. I caught one shot of Meg Alexander about 6:40 and I thought she looked great on Standard Def, and her hair was killer! There's gotta be a reason this station is winning the ratings --- somebody figure it out for us! ;-)

[OKCisOK4me]

I hope so.

It's funny,
KOCO has "advantage doppler HD" which isn't HD, and
KWTV has "Sky News 9 HD" which has a high def camera, but has never been broadcasted in HD.

Tell me about it. When my friend worked at Channel 9 he kept telling me the new camera on their helicopter was HD. I agreed with him but had to try to explain to him that the signal was not being broadcast in high definition. Albeit he works for another station now, I think he now understands what I was trying to tell him.

[AAC2005]

Does having KFOR in High-Def mean that I will finally be able to understand what Russell Carter is saying when he gets excited during a live broadcast?

[BBatesokc]

Hmmmm. Glad others noted the audio not matching up with the video.

I still see/hear the problem on the 10pm newscast but not the morning newscast.

BailJumper: Is your TV still doing this?

Anyone else?

[Bostonfan]

Hmmmm. Glad others noted the audio not matching up with the video.

I still see/hear the problem on the 10pm newscast but not the morning newscast.

BailJumper: Is your TV still doing this?

Anyone else?

yes, still having a problem with 4's audio/picture. Not so much on their newscast but on other programming. It's better, but still there.

[SoonerQueen]

I love the new HD on channel 4. Makes everything look so much clearer.

[drumsncode]

I love the new HD on channel 4. Makes everything look so much clearer.

The amazing thing to me is that it even looks better on a standard-definition TV?! Who knew?! When one of those weather maps came up it was so incredibly vibrant and saturated with color! The other stations better get with it, or Mr. Nielsen is going to leave them in the dust! It was pretty smart of KFOR to fire this thing up during sweeps too. We'll see if they can pull off across-the-board ratings wins again.

I've also heard that Ali Meyer looks awfully cute in HD. ( Hey, I'm just sayin' ) ;-)

[RealJimbo]

I was expecting Linda Cavanaugh to look all wrinkled and saggy in HD. She doesn't. I've seen all of the on-air talent at KFOR in person at one time or another and the SD picture has never done them justice. The HD broadcast gets closer, but Linda, Allie, Meg and Tara are each and every one drop-dead gorgeous in person.

[Thunder]

The last storm or two that we had, I was surprised to see CC during the severe weather on the HD channel. It worked, but not smooth as the regular channel when each line moves up. I noticed how the blue side bars disappeared, so I guess that was the issue blocking the CC. Sometimes the CC disappear, so they still got to work on that and work on smoothing the line by line scrolling.

[possumfritter]

drumnscode,

I haven't switched to an HD TV yet and probably won't until my present TV (RCA, 2007) gives up the ghost. But you are correct, the picture on my standard set is much, much better.

Still out of sync though from time-to-time. And being in the flight path of Wiley Post, the signal gets disrupted as well. But, I can live with it.

[drumsncode]

drumnscode,

I haven't switched to an HD TV yet and probably won't until my present TV (RCA, 2007) gives up the ghost. But you are correct, the picture on my standard set is much, much better.

Still out of sync though from time-to-time. And being in the flight path of Wiley Post, the signal gets disrupted as well. But, I can live with it.

Things have really come along nicely since everyone went digital. Just a few years back, I was fighting ghosts on the picture and some odd, slowly crawling bands on some channels, not to mention having to adjust the antenna knob for FOX25. I had forgotten how annoying and how primitive that seems now. All the stations are solid and it's only going to get better.

Prices are slowly coming down, and just about the time they get LCD TV's perfected, I believe it's Samsung that now is touting LED TV as the next big thing. That's fine, just give me that 120hz Samsung LCD TV I've been lusting over for a few months at a bargain price and I'll drift off to TV Heaven.

For me, the next barrier I'm waiting for them to conquer is affordable DVD/DVR recording in Hi-Def. I want to be able to record and burn DVD's in Hi-Def, and I don't want to buy some stupid unit that charges me a monthly fee.

[Thunder]

For me, the next barrier I'm waiting for them to conquer is affordable DVD/DVR recording in Hi-Def. I want to be able to record and burn DVD's in Hi-Def, and I don't want to buy some stupid unit that charges me a monthly fee.

Yes, that is what I want. To own a DVR without paying for the unit and gateway fees. Sadly, I can not find such like it anywhere.

[drumsncode]

Yes, that is what I want. To own a DVR without paying for the unit and gateway fees. Sadly, I can not find such like it anywhere.

You know, I suppose if we started writing to companies and telling them to create a unit like that, it might help. I've considered that. It's a gaping hole in everyone's product line!

The closest thing I have is my Phillips DVR, but it's standard-def. I don't know why on Earth they don't release a new version in High-Def, because hard-drives are cheap enough to make it happen.

The closest thing I've found so far is a unit from Hauppage that connects to your PC, but I don't want to go that route unless I have to. Check out their website for details, and its about 250 dollars and is a little box that connects to the PC with some software to handle all the stuff.

[Bunty]

KFOR looks super good on my 61" Samsung DLP rear projection, even though DLP is the type of TV everybody hates quite a bit because a well centered had on viewing angle is important, otherwise the screen dims out. But 61" LCD or plasma or size close to it would have costed a lot more money than I wanted to put into a TV.

I was mainly watching channel 5 news. Until they get on the ball and switch to HD, I'll watch the channel 4 news.

[AAC2005]

Although they've had a few techno glitches this week - NBC Nightly News jumping in during the 6:00 local news, tv screen going green or black for a number of seconds, etc., KFOR is looking good!

Chelly Mills even looks like she's pregnant in HD!

[kimard]

Chelly Mills even looks like she's pregnant in HD!

She is!