...trying to see what I can watch with it. The local airwaves (west Michigan) are flooded with digital TV broadcasts, and today I seem to be picking up more of them then ever before. As obvious as it may be to some of you HT gurus, I was quite suprised to find that many of the local stations actually make use of multiple programs within an MPEG Transport Stream.
Here's what I've found so far:
Channel 7 (WOOD-DT) is actually putting out THREE signals within their stream, labeled as:
[*]WOOD-DT (pid 2): NBC affiliate, 1088-line HDTV
[*]WXSP (pid 3): UPN affiliate, 480-line 4:3.
[*]RADAR (pid 4): Doppler rader with an obviously synthesized readout of NWS weather bulletins.
Here's a 1 meg AVI of the radar thing. Download only if you're really curious, or else you'll ATOT me off the net.
Channel 11 (WGVU-DT) has only one video program (pid 48 IIRC), but TWO audio programs:
[*]pid 52: The audio for WGVU-DT, a local PBS affiliate that broadcasts in 480-line HDTV
[*]pid 53: The audio from WGVU-AM, a local NPR affiliate. This means I can now hear Neil Conan on almost as many stations as Rush Limbaugh...
Channel 20 (WOTV-DT) is the most distant signal I can get, coming from almost 100 miles away. It has two programs:
[*]WOTV-DT (pid 2): ABC affiliate, 720-line HDTV
[*]RADAR (pid 3): The same as 7.4
The other channels I have been able to get are:
[*]19 (WXMI-DT): FOX affiliate, 720-line HDTV
[*]24 (WTLJ-DT): TCT affiliate(?), 480-line HDTV, but it looks like stretched out 4:3 video.
[*]39 (WZZM-DT): Another ABC affiliate, 720-line HDTV. Have to rotate the antenna to watch this one for any length of time.
I'm still trying to pick up the local CBS affiliate (WWMT-DT, channel 2), but I suppose I can live with what I have now. At least until the cable company offers a hot deal on HDTV service...
Here's what I've found so far:
Channel 7 (WOOD-DT) is actually putting out THREE signals within their stream, labeled as:
[*]WOOD-DT (pid 2): NBC affiliate, 1088-line HDTV
[*]WXSP (pid 3): UPN affiliate, 480-line 4:3.
[*]RADAR (pid 4): Doppler rader with an obviously synthesized readout of NWS weather bulletins.
Here's a 1 meg AVI of the radar thing. Download only if you're really curious, or else you'll ATOT me off the net.
Channel 11 (WGVU-DT) has only one video program (pid 48 IIRC), but TWO audio programs:
[*]pid 52: The audio for WGVU-DT, a local PBS affiliate that broadcasts in 480-line HDTV
[*]pid 53: The audio from WGVU-AM, a local NPR affiliate. This means I can now hear Neil Conan on almost as many stations as Rush Limbaugh...
Channel 20 (WOTV-DT) is the most distant signal I can get, coming from almost 100 miles away. It has two programs:
[*]WOTV-DT (pid 2): ABC affiliate, 720-line HDTV
[*]RADAR (pid 3): The same as 7.4
The other channels I have been able to get are:
[*]19 (WXMI-DT): FOX affiliate, 720-line HDTV
[*]24 (WTLJ-DT): TCT affiliate(?), 480-line HDTV, but it looks like stretched out 4:3 video.
[*]39 (WZZM-DT): Another ABC affiliate, 720-line HDTV. Have to rotate the antenna to watch this one for any length of time.
I'm still trying to pick up the local CBS affiliate (WWMT-DT, channel 2), but I suppose I can live with what I have now. At least until the cable company offers a hot deal on HDTV service...
