This is a good question. We completed our Master Control HD Upgrade during the first week of November. We are now in the process of acquiring new HD programs...so what happened to the old programs? The new system utilizes a better method that lets us have more control over the HD programs than the old system and method...so we had to get rid of most of the old programs that we have been using for the past few years...so what are you seeing on the tube?
It depends upon your delivery system. Are you receiving us over the air from one of our transmitters or translators? Are you receiving us through Oceanic Cable? Or maybe you are receiving us from Dish Network or DirecTV? Then, what are you watching us on? A new 16 by 9 (16:9) digital TV set? Or maybe your older analog, 4 by 3 (4:3) TV set? Or maybe through your computer? Each one of these will cause you to see the picture differently.
Let me explain the over-the-air HD signal first. This signal comes to you as either 11.1 or 10.1. If you view us via an antenna connected to your converter box, the box will automatically output just the middle portion of the picture. It cuts off the sides because the picture it receives is too big to fit on your analog TV...thus you may see some words and picture being cut off on the edges. If you have a digital TV, then you will see the entire picture as it was meant to be seen.
Now DirecTV and Dish Network subscribers are seeing the same thing. If you subscribe to their HD service, then you will see the entire picture as it is meant to be seen. If you do not subscribe to their HD service, you are seeing that what they do to the picture is exactly what the converter box in the above scenario is doing, since they both use our over-the-air HD signal to put on their system and use a converter box to give them the picture they need for their analog service.
Now, if you are like most people, you subscribe to Oceanic Cable. I will discuss this in my next entry since it is very involved.
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