[BC] Changes in the Channels

[Alan Alsobrook]

I just got an Samsung HDTV, and I have been amazed at the picture 
quality. I'm running it on raw cable, It was quite interesting to see 
what all channels it found on its own.  As for the rose parade, I 
switched back & forth from CBS's HD coverage to Discovery's Both had 
very nice pictures with one notable difference, CBS's cameras had much 
more water on the lens. It looked like DHD, was set up just around the 
corner a bit further down the route than CBS. If you saw something you 
really liked on CBS wait about a minute and switch to discovery and see 
it again.

Another thing I've noticed with the HD is that (as expected) it's 
delayed behind the analog version, (most of the time) but I've also 
noticed the amount of delay varies. Mostly it's about 1-3 seconds behind 
but, I have even caught the HD signal about 50mS ahead of the Analog.

Now about these channels it found, thumbing through a bunch of 
invald/scrambled channels I found that I could pick up any of the 
"I-control" channels as someone ordered them. It looked like about 30 
Channels were available for I-control and it would fill in from the top 
and/or bottom of that channel group. So if you didn't like the movie the 
first person ordered, just wait a few minutes on the next channel up and 
you would see the menu come up and someone thumbing through it. Then 
Poof up comes the movie. The scary part about this is that their are 
obviously some fairly adult movies available on I-Control, That's what 
first brought it to my attention as I was wondering through I saw some 
pictures I really didn't expect to see on a barefoot TV. (two girls 
doing something to a guy in a Santa suit)

Rachel Ehrenberg wrote:
> I watched our Rose Parade Coverage on Discovery HD and it looked, in my
> perhaps jaded opinion, pretty darn good.  That said, I am seriously
> thinking of dropping the HD package from my Dish Network service.  There
> is NOTHING to bloody watch.   

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Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD CBNT
St. Augustine Fl. 32086 904-829-8885
aalso at Bellsouth.net