all things cbl

Since I have written many-a-time about the lack of the available Over-The-Air (OTA) HD channels in St. George, I thought it might please those few readers of mine that there is now another channel broadcasting in HiDef. ABC channel 4 came online just a few short weeks ago. It’s not ‘true-HD’, but they’re upconverting the signal, however, it’ll do.. for now.

I’ve been bugging Cody @ Skyview Technologies who has the ‘in’ with those that bring HD to the area about the subject quite a bit. He mentioned only recently that Fox13 should be getting here shortly. In fact, it’s already being broadcast from West Mountain (a really big mountain West of Ivins/St. George that has a ton of antennas on it) into St. George. I tried to pick it up for the season finale of “24″, but failed to get signal. So it should be a sure fire thing that it’ll be installed before Prison Break returns to Fox this fall. Good thing too.

For those of you that haven’t experienced the blissful heaven that is what we call HD, you are truly missing out. Go buy yourself a HiDef TV and if you already have one, get an antenna so you can get these OTA channels for free. Speaking of free, that’s one of my big drawbacks to the Dish/DirecTV packages. I can not get the local HD channels alone. I have to get a $29.99/month package to have the ability to get the HD channel package. Oh and then I have to get the HD receiver which is more. But oh yeah, I’m into this DVR thing, so I like to record stuff while I’m away for later viewing pleasure. More $. Ugh. So, I’m living with my appointment HD-TV for now. Rumor has it, I can build me a MythTV box to pull the HD OTA streams, but that may be a project for another day.

More posts later…