The HD and SD feeds to the sat companies are usually separate. The HD signals are muxed into different feeds on different birds than the SD.
Where the cable and sat companies are still using over the air signals, they converted to receiving the digital transmitters a last year, if not earlier.
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:24 AM, bob.liss@... wrote:
Does this really make sense anymore? KTVU only has one signal now (i.e. a digital signal which is transmitted at a high definition resolution). Their analog signal used to be received by the satellite companies but that signal was turned off back on June 12th. I could be wrong but I doubt KTVU is taking their digital signal and reducing it's resolution to send to the satellite companies. Don't the satellite companies simply take the high definition digital signal and cut the 4x3 picture out of the 16x9 signal and then lower it's resolution to send to their non HD receivers? The digital signal I'm referring to is, if I'm not mistaken, received by the satellite companies via OTA. Perhaps the signal will be sent via fiber at some point in the future but for the moment I don't think any signal is being sent via fiber. Please feel to correct me here if I'm wrong.
--- In HDTV-in-SFbay@yahoogroups.com, "Bob" <Lopakabob@...> wrote:--- In HDTV-in-SFbay@yahoogroups.com, Rob Gendreau <rob.gendreau@>wrote:I've had the same problem with 2 on DirecTV but not on 2.1 OTA.Does this mean the problem is in the feed KTVU sends the satcompanies?DirecTV and Dish Network receive the KTVU HD signal via the over-the-air(OTA) signal.They receive the SD signal on fiber.