Update:
The DTVPal DVR is no longer made under that name.
It is now called the Channel Master CM-7000PAL. I have read it too may be discontinued soon.
It is now available here...
http://www.channelmasterstore.com/HD_DVR_receiver_for_antenna_p/cm-7000pal.htm
and here...
http://goo.gl/IQrl3
There is a new OTA DVR from Channel Master that looks very interesting.
It's available here...
http://www.channelmasterstore.com/HD_DVR_with_no_subscription_p/cm7400.htm
and here...
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Channel-Master-CM7400/17765275
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Latest Channel Listing
A few changes to our channel line-up that took place January 1st.
More channels added and more in the works!
North Hills Pittsburgh O.T.A. (over the air) Channel Line-up 1/1/2012
2.1 ~ KDKA (CBS affiliate)
4.1 ~ WTAE (ABC affiliate)
4.2 ~ WTAE (THIS TV Network) reruns of vintage movies and TV programs
4.3 ~ WTAE (ABC affiliate) (North Hills translator/repeater for a better signal)
4.4 ~ WTAE (THIS TV Network) (North Hills translator/repeater for a better signal)
9.1 ~ WTOV Steubenville, Ohio (NBC Network affiliate)
9.2 ~ WTOV (Retro Television Network) somewhat different programming as 59-3
11.1 ~ WPXI (NBC Network affiliate)
11.2 ~ WPXI (MeTV - "Memorable Entertainment" TV) classics from the 1950s through the 1980s
13.1 ~ WQED-HD (main WQED programming / PBS)
13.2 ~ WQED-D1 (WQED-DT2 programming / Create Channel)
13.3 ~ WQED-D2 (WQED-DT3 programming / Neighborhood Channel)
13.4 ~ WQED-D3 (WQED-DT4 programming / Additional Neighborhood Channel)
16.1 ~ (ION TV) national television network featuring general entertainment
16.2 ~ (qubo TV) Childrens TV programming
16.3 ~ (IONLife TV) dedicated to lifestyle programming - mostly 80's, 90's & 00's movies.
16.4 ~ (ION affiliate) currently not broadcasting programming (testing signal)
19.1 ~ WPCW (CW network) Formally UPN & WB. Various original & rerun programming.
22.1 ~ WPMY (myTV network) mostly syndicated programming
22.2 ~ The COOL TV ~ all music video lineup
40.1 ~ WPCB (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.2 ~ BDC (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.3 ~ WPCB (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.4 ~ CTVN (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
53.1 ~ (FOX affiliate)
53.2 ~ (CMT) Country Music Network - music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies
59.1 ~ WBGN (Independent Station) variety of programming - first run syndicated shows
59.2 ~ HSN - Home Shopping Network
59.3 ~ RTV - (Retro Television Network) reruns of vintage movies and TV programs
59.4 ~ LWN - (Live Well Network) - home, health and lifestyle programming
65-1 ~ WPDN - (Daystar Television Network) - Christian Programming
More channels added and more in the works!
North Hills Pittsburgh O.T.A. (over the air) Channel Line-up 1/1/2012
2.1 ~ KDKA (CBS affiliate)
4.1 ~ WTAE (ABC affiliate)
4.2 ~ WTAE (THIS TV Network) reruns of vintage movies and TV programs
4.3 ~ WTAE (ABC affiliate) (North Hills translator/repeater for a better signal)
4.4 ~ WTAE (THIS TV Network) (North Hills translator/repeater for a better signal)
9.1 ~ WTOV Steubenville, Ohio (NBC Network affiliate)
9.2 ~ WTOV (Retro Television Network) somewhat different programming as 59-3
11.1 ~ WPXI (NBC Network affiliate)
11.2 ~ WPXI (MeTV - "Memorable Entertainment" TV) classics from the 1950s through the 1980s
13.1 ~ WQED-HD (main WQED programming / PBS)
13.2 ~ WQED-D1 (WQED-DT2 programming / Create Channel)
13.3 ~ WQED-D2 (WQED-DT3 programming / Neighborhood Channel)
13.4 ~ WQED-D3 (WQED-DT4 programming / Additional Neighborhood Channel)
16.1 ~ (ION TV) national television network featuring general entertainment
16.2 ~ (qubo TV) Childrens TV programming
16.3 ~ (IONLife TV) dedicated to lifestyle programming - mostly 80's, 90's & 00's movies.
16.4 ~ (ION affiliate) currently not broadcasting programming (testing signal)
19.1 ~ WPCW (CW network) Formally UPN & WB. Various original & rerun programming.
22.1 ~ WPMY (myTV network) mostly syndicated programming
22.2 ~ The COOL TV ~ all music video lineup
40.1 ~ WPCB (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.2 ~ BDC (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.3 ~ WPCB (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.4 ~ CTVN (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
53.1 ~ (FOX affiliate)
53.2 ~ (CMT) Country Music Network - music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies
59.1 ~ WBGN (Independent Station) variety of programming - first run syndicated shows
59.2 ~ HSN - Home Shopping Network
59.3 ~ RTV - (Retro Television Network) reruns of vintage movies and TV programs
59.4 ~ LWN - (Live Well Network) - home, health and lifestyle programming
65-1 ~ WPDN - (Daystar Television Network) - Christian Programming
Sunday, December 11, 2011
ION & CREATE TV
Nancy has been enjoying the Christmas programming on ION TV.
It's nice to have this OTA channel for her to watch with their seasonal programming.
The programming is much the same as the cable "LIFETIME" channel.
http://www.iontelevision.com/
I have been enjoying CREATE TV for the travel programming which is much like the cable "TRAVEL" channel.
http://www.createtv.com/
It's been over a year since we dropped Comcast and switched to all OTA (Over The Air) programming. I figure we've saved well over $1500 which will go toward our 2012 vacation to Hawaii :)
With the economy still bad I think more and more people should consider dumping expensive cable or satellite and use their resources for better purposes.
#noregrets
P.S. When I do a spell check on Comcast, Blogger wants to replace it with Compost. LOL
It's nice to have this OTA channel for her to watch with their seasonal programming.
The programming is much the same as the cable "LIFETIME" channel.
http://www.iontelevision.com/
I have been enjoying CREATE TV for the travel programming which is much like the cable "TRAVEL" channel.
http://www.createtv.com/
It's been over a year since we dropped Comcast and switched to all OTA (Over The Air) programming. I figure we've saved well over $1500 which will go toward our 2012 vacation to Hawaii :)
With the economy still bad I think more and more people should consider dumping expensive cable or satellite and use their resources for better purposes.
#noregrets
P.S. When I do a spell check on Comcast, Blogger wants to replace it with Compost. LOL
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Kudos to Verizon
We had the first glitch in our Verizon High Speed internet service today after having it about 12 months. It kept dropping the connection so after multiple re-booting of the modem/wireless router a call to Verizon was in order.
They were very polite and after going through a complete check-list and a concurrent chat with one of their higher up techs they appeared to resolved the problem in about 20 minutes.
A couple of hours later I received an email from them that read "Dear Verizon High Speed Internet customer, I hope I was able to answer your questions about your High Speed Internet service today. As a follow up to our conversation, here is some additional information to assist you with your service."
The rest of the e-mail outlined some things we could try ourselves if it ever happened again.
Easy to deal with and nothing like the multiple nightmare phone calls I had with Comcast.
Kudos Verizon!
As a sidebar, I just noticed one of my neighbors access points is called COMCASTSTINKS. I suppose they must have had similar comcastic experiences. lol
They were very polite and after going through a complete check-list and a concurrent chat with one of their higher up techs they appeared to resolved the problem in about 20 minutes.
A couple of hours later I received an email from them that read "Dear Verizon High Speed Internet customer, I hope I was able to answer your questions about your High Speed Internet service today. As a follow up to our conversation, here is some additional information to assist you with your service."
The rest of the e-mail outlined some things we could try ourselves if it ever happened again.
Easy to deal with and nothing like the multiple nightmare phone calls I had with Comcast.
Kudos Verizon!
As a sidebar, I just noticed one of my neighbors access points is called COMCASTSTINKS. I suppose they must have had similar comcastic experiences. lol
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Channel List Update
Forgot to update our Over-The-Air Channel list that changed about a month ago.
It's good to see more and more stations are expanding their digital line-ups with more promised.
The main difference to us is that RTV moved to 59-3 and 11-2 became MeTV.
Also 9.1 & 9.2 in Steubenville, Ohio can now be picked up probably due to a transmitter upgrade.
North Hills Pittsburgh O.T.A. (over the air) Channel Line-up
2.1 ~ KDKA (CBS affiliate)
4.1 ~ WTAE (ABC affiliate)
4.2 ~ WTAE (THIS TV Network) reruns of vintage movies and TV programs
9.1 ~ WTOV Steubenville, Ohio (NBC Network affiliate)
9.2 ~ WTOV (Retro Television Network) somewhat different programming as 59-3
11.1 ~ WPXI (NBC Network affiliate)
11.2 ~ WPXI (MeTV - "Memorable Entertainment" TV) classics from the 1950s through the 1980s
13.1 ~ WQED (main WQED programming / PBS)
13.2 ~ WQED (WQED-DT2 programming / Create Channel)
13.3 ~ WQED (WQED-DT3 programming / Neighborhood Channel)
13.4 ~ WQED (WQED-DT4 programming / Additional Neighborhood Channel)
16.1 ~ WINP-TV - Shopping channel owned by ION
16.2 ~ (ION TV) national television network featuring general entertainment
16.3 ~ (qubo TV) Childrens TV programming
16.4 ~ (IONLife TV) dedicated to lifestyle programming - mostly 80's, 90's & 00's movies.
19.1 ~ WPCW (CW network) Formally UPN & WB. Various original & rerun programming.
22.1 ~ WPMY (myTV network) mostly syndicated programming - http://www.mypittsburghtv.com/
22.2 ~ The COOL TV ~ all music video lineup
40.1 ~ WPCB (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.2 ~ BDC (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.3~ BDC (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
53.1 ~ (FOX affiliate)
53.2 ~ (CMT) Country Music Network - music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies
59.1 WBGN (Independent Station) variety of programming - first run syndicated shows
59.2 HSN - Home Shopping Network
59.3 RTV - (Retro Television Network) reruns of vintage movies and TV programs
59.4 ~ Universal Sports Network - various Olympic style sports programming
It's good to see more and more stations are expanding their digital line-ups with more promised.
The main difference to us is that RTV moved to 59-3 and 11-2 became MeTV.
Also 9.1 & 9.2 in Steubenville, Ohio can now be picked up probably due to a transmitter upgrade.
North Hills Pittsburgh O.T.A. (over the air) Channel Line-up
2.1 ~ KDKA (CBS affiliate)
4.1 ~ WTAE (ABC affiliate)
4.2 ~ WTAE (THIS TV Network) reruns of vintage movies and TV programs
9.1 ~ WTOV Steubenville, Ohio (NBC Network affiliate)
9.2 ~ WTOV (Retro Television Network) somewhat different programming as 59-3
11.1 ~ WPXI (NBC Network affiliate)
11.2 ~ WPXI (MeTV - "Memorable Entertainment" TV) classics from the 1950s through the 1980s
13.1 ~ WQED (main WQED programming / PBS)
13.2 ~ WQED (WQED-DT2 programming / Create Channel)
13.3 ~ WQED (WQED-DT3 programming / Neighborhood Channel)
13.4 ~ WQED (WQED-DT4 programming / Additional Neighborhood Channel)
16.1 ~ WINP-TV - Shopping channel owned by ION
16.2 ~ (ION TV) national television network featuring general entertainment
16.3 ~ (qubo TV) Childrens TV programming
16.4 ~ (IONLife TV) dedicated to lifestyle programming - mostly 80's, 90's & 00's movies.
19.1 ~ WPCW (CW network) Formally UPN & WB. Various original & rerun programming.
22.1 ~ WPMY (myTV network) mostly syndicated programming - http://www.mypittsburghtv.com/
22.2 ~ The COOL TV ~ all music video lineup
40.1 ~ WPCB (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.2 ~ BDC (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
40.3~ BDC (Cornerstone TV) Christian television station
53.1 ~ (FOX affiliate)
53.2 ~ (CMT) Country Music Network - music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies
59.1 WBGN (Independent Station) variety of programming - first run syndicated shows
59.2 HSN - Home Shopping Network
59.3 RTV - (Retro Television Network) reruns of vintage movies and TV programs
59.4 ~ Universal Sports Network - various Olympic style sports programming
Update: Comcast Strikes Again!
Just a quick update to the in-laws Comcast problems.
They finally got the last item straitened out last week.
Since August they have had no access to their Comcast e-mail account.
Turns out one of their techs deleted their e-mail account during the switch-over to the condo so any saved e-mails and information was lost. They had to start all over and set up a new account. Why it took 4 weeks to resolve this problem we have no idea. Half a dozen different Comcast reps could not help after many hours on the phone. Each one just "kicked the problem down the road" and said someone would call back in a few days. Eventually one did figure it out (kind of) and he set up the new account.
We're inclined to set up a g-mail account for them so that it does not happen again.
Here's another story from a friend on the trials and tribulations of this inept company...
http://plkrat.blogspot.com/2011/09/comcast-and-charter-are-in-race-to.html
They finally got the last item straitened out last week.
Since August they have had no access to their Comcast e-mail account.
Turns out one of their techs deleted their e-mail account during the switch-over to the condo so any saved e-mails and information was lost. They had to start all over and set up a new account. Why it took 4 weeks to resolve this problem we have no idea. Half a dozen different Comcast reps could not help after many hours on the phone. Each one just "kicked the problem down the road" and said someone would call back in a few days. Eventually one did figure it out (kind of) and he set up the new account.
We're inclined to set up a g-mail account for them so that it does not happen again.
Here's another story from a friend on the trials and tribulations of this inept company...
http://plkrat.blogspot.com/2011/09/comcast-and-charter-are-in-race-to.html
Monday, September 12, 2011
Budget-Friendly Alternatives to Cable TV
Interesting and informative article on Budget-Friendly Alternatives to Cable TV.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/113459/cable-tv-budget-friendly-alternatives-kiplinger
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/113459/cable-tv-budget-friendly-alternatives-kiplinger
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