I have noticed over the past few weeks that there is something wrong with the sound on our Phoenix ABC affiliate's HD broadcast. When a network show like Lost or Alias is on, it sounds like the audio is inside a tube. Kinda of a metallic ring to it almost. When advertisements or local programming are on it sounds fine. I don't hear this on any other channels. I wonder what is going on. I wonder if anyone else is hearing it.

A while back I talked about no longer being able to pick up certain channels on my HDTV. Well, thanks to a suggestion from my friend Robert, I bought a Terk HDTVi antenna. I plugged it in and ran the channel auto-discover on my TV and it brought back PBS and the local NBC HD signals! This antenna works much better than the amplified antenna I was using before. I watched 3 hours of HD broadcast tonight, Lost and Alias :),  and I had no signal dropouts like I usually did with my old antenna. Best $40 I've spent in a while!

Every so often I'll switch over to the antenna on my HD television to see what's being broadcast in HD. Right about the time that the Olympics started, I decided to see if I could pick up the HD signal. That's when I noticed that it seems that the local NBC affiliate, KPNX isn't coming in on my set. I also noticed that the two local PBS digital channels had disappeared. Has anyone else in the Phoenix area noticed this or is it just me? I contacted KPNX and they said they are still broadcasting their HD signal. I am picking up quite a few other channels and I am pretty close to the antennas on South Mountain, so I can't imagine I am having a problem with a "weak" signal.