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Post by CAwasinNJ on Sept 26, 2009 3:59:18 GMT -7
All the DTV Utah stations (2, 4 ,5 ,7, 9, 11, 14, 30) are currently down and will be also on Sunday and Monday mornings. Interestingly it appears the only websites noting this are co-owned KUED and KUEN.
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Post by dxstuboy on Sept 26, 2009 21:15:20 GMT -7
Its interesting how the whole thing happened in the first place. The combiner blew up practically, from a lightning strike! Everything, I'm guessing, was/is grounded like crazy up there, but I guess even a direct hit would have the potential to cause damage. Just goes to show you how lucky some people are to be living after being struck. I'm glad the engineers were okay, that must have been one helluva thunder.
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Post by kenglish on Sept 27, 2009 9:31:42 GMT -7
It was a control system problem with the combiner. I gave a pretty concise wrap-up over on the Salt Lake thread at AVS Forums.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Sept 27, 2009 22:18:37 GMT -7
Trying to find anything at that site is a mess, but it's got some really interesting information. The current URL for those playing at home is www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=30682dc0fbec364557152ad54089ba49&t=418646&page=100Last night I checked the feeds going to Comcast to see whether they were using the off-air feeds or some alternate feed. The most curious thing I found was that the Comcast analog ch2 is fed differently from the digital ch2 that the boxes use. I've known for a while that there are two different feeds coming over the cable (analog and digital, duh), but I was surprised that the source is different. The analog 2 was frozen on the last frame it got when the transmitter went offline. The digital 2 was running programming as usual. Odd. 4 and 5 were being fed some other way and both analog and digital sides were running programming as usual. 7, 14 and 30 were frozen on both analog and digital. Curiously 9, which is no longer even on the analog feed, was running normally on the digital side. 11 was frozen on analog and the digital side caused the box to generate an error. Digital 114 (KUEN 9.2) had that same error. The subchannels on all other stations were running programming as normal. My summary: I'm surprised how many stations' off-air feed Comcast is using. |
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