Howdy! Mike,

I've only seen the first Eight Doctors on my TV Set.

I've seen the First Seven Doctor Who Series on my old analog tv set and
saw the Eighth Doctor on a Special (on the ABC TV Network iirc).

That was before the TV Stations were 'encouraged' to start broadcasting in Digital Mode.

Digital TV works fairly fine when the Weather is calm, but during storms
it acts different than a Analog TV signal did.

I got 2 Digital TV Convertor Box Coupons from the U.S. Government when
they offered them, and have the convertors connected in between the
Antenna and each Set.

So far Digital Over The Air TV has cost me $20.00 USD, but each TV Station
is broadcasting other sub channels, so I'm getting to see Shows from other
TV Networks, one of which has Doctor Who.

I detest wanting to pay a Cable TV Company to watch the current Doctor Who shows on the BBC Channel, because of the many other hundreds of Channels
they carry on the cable that I don't care to watch.

I don't want to pay for the priviledge to switch to another TV Channel
or to Turn the set OFF.

Some of what I've read on Wikipedia about the later Doctor Who shows makes
me think they are not as good as the older series shows that I watched.

WBNA TV 21.4 has the Retro TV Network, and currently I'm watching the
Doctor Who shows with the Third Doctor for one hour Monday- Friday.

On Saturday Retro TV has Doctor Who scheduled for two hours, currently with
the Sixth Doctor, but WBNA only carries 1 1/2 hour of Doctor Who that day
and has a Sportcast during the last 30 minute segment.

Six and a Half Hour is better than no Doctor Who at all.

One thing I've noticed when the titles for the Third Doctor are shown at
the Beginning and End of the show is that as the colored lines are
changing shape, at one point the shape looks like a Storm Trooper
Helmet briefly.

If You can watch WBNA in Frankfort, KY, see if You notice what I 'think'
I'm seeing when the show starts up.

You know how I am..............


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10-01-16 11:55 Mike Powell wrote to Ed Vance about Doctor Who
Howdy! Mike,

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Digital TV works fairly fine when the Weather is calm, but during storms
it acts different than a Analog TV signal did.

Ed,
Yeah, and over a distance, like Louisville to Frankfort, or even
Lexington to Frankfort, the digital signals deteriorate so badly they
are usually unwatchable. I used to be able to pull in all Louisville stations, all Lexington stations, and even one from Cincinnati. Ironically, when they first went digital, some of the stations were available because they were on UHF (the analog was still using their
VHF "spot"). Now that analog is gone on those VHF stations have gone
VHF for digital, I have no TVs that pull anything via antenna.

I remember Tom Walker (in the Windows 95 echo) saying that His reception changed for the worse when the TV Stations started sending out Digital TV signals.

From what I can tell, digital was no real improvement for most of us at all. The only thing it allowed was for the government to narrow the
band used by TV so that they could sell the remainder for other uses.

WBNA TV 21.4 has the Retro TV Network, and currently I'm watching the
Doctor Who shows with the Third Doctor for one hour Monday- Friday.

There used to be another subchannel network there in Louisville that
also carried the older 30-minute episodes. I can't remember which
network it was, though. I happened to see it on TV while visiting relatives up there a year or so ago. It was not Retro TV but a network
I had not heard of. It was the first time I had seen episodes from any
of the "original run" series, and they were pretty good.

I keep my eyes out just to see if any of the other subchannel networks
we do get here on cable (Me, Antenna, and one other) carry Dr Who but,
so far, if they do I have missed it.

I could look at those Networks schedule to see if they show any Doctor Who shows.

One thing I've noticed when the titles for the Third Doctor are shown at
the Beginning and End of the show is that as the colored lines are
changing shape, at one point the shape looks like a Storm Trooper
Helmet briefly.

They may very well do so. Over the years, they have probably had some characters that look like a Storm Trooper. I am not sure what the
early Cybermen looked like, for example. :)

I didn't mean a Actor, I meant the Graphics in the background when the Title and Credits are shown at the beginning and end of the Third Doctor Who shows.

Saturday, I called WDRB and left a message that I was seeing a show that is being shown on their 21.1 channel, on the 21.4 channel at the time Doctor Who was listed in their schedule on their website.
I suppose someone flipped the wrong switch in the Control Room at the station.

If You can watch WBNA in Frankfort, KY, see if You notice what I 'think'
I'm seeing when the show starts up.

Actually, I know I said I used to be able to get "all" of the
Louisville TV stations, but WBNA may have been one I never did get.
That, and Channel 24.

I get both of those Channels, but don't watch much TV at all.




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