... For the record, I watched "Leave it to Jim" and "George Lopez" tonight. They looked fine on my puny 32" LCD. I did not detect anything that I thought...
FWIW, I wound up exchanging my 6412 for a 6412-III (Monday) and that wasn't the problem. Seems like something went "oops" at the head-end, because it was...
... I have one *CRAZY* theory. I thought that Richard mentioned in a message that he would be ... spending some time keeping an eye on the transmitters during...
... The Olympics were an R&B group back in the 50's. What we just watched on KNTV was The Olympic Games. Sure, we all call them The Olympics, but that's not...
The Boston Legal HD quality last night was definetely below par. Does anybody know, if theABC Directv West Coast feed from LA suffers from the the same BW...
... I was watching Boston Legal (and the terrible sitcom before it) last night with the sound turned down, just to evaluate the video quality. (I was carrying...
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:03:06AM -0800, Larry Katzeff wrote: } The Boston Legal HD quality last night was definitely } below par. I watched Boston Legal via...
I had side by side comparison of the same show recorded couple of weeks ago and last night's. There was a definite difference in sharpness and softness in...
While many of us here are familiar with over the air reception and all of the problems involved with it, you still might find the following article from "HDTV...
I would expect that the symptoms of a low HD bit rate would be the presence of transient jagged and blocky areas during fast action or in the cutting from one...
lotsa breakup with hd channels tonight. no hd seems to be fine. i'm in san leandro. breakup occuring using ota antenna as well as d*tv h20 receiver. anyone...
well, I was setting up a new (Sony HDD-250)unit for HD recording with my system, and I though everything was going ok until maybe 9:30, when I checked around...
... generally, highly subjective comments about picture quality count for very little, with so many factors coming into play. it is best to stick with the...
... I had a lot of break up during "American Idol" at about 8:55, then I totally lost the signal for a while. Had to switch to analog. (Yuck!) When it came...
... I watched last night's "Lost" on my projector (150" diagonal) and it didn't look any worse than any previous episode of Lost that I've watched on it. MPEG...
... The point I'm making is that many of the negative comments weren't coming with any data at all, let alone subjective comments. What I saw was lots of...
Bit starving has two basic symptoms: [oversimplifying] 1. visible macroblocking as you mentioned, the term for when you can see the visible structure of 16x16...
KNTV feeds DirecTV using fiber optics. Compressed but never 8VSB modulated. I might guess the others are as well. ... From: HDTV-in-SFbay@yahoogroups.com ...
KNTV is operating on the new Harmonic encoding system as of today at 3:30pm. If your particular problem is related to reception this of course will not resolve...
When you added another unit to your system, you must have put in a splitter. When you do this, you introduce an additional 3.5dB loss. If your reception ...
In San Jose West 11-1 is perfect, and 11-2 looks way better than before... IV ... at 3:30pm. ... will not ... broadcast and ... there were ... didn't see ... ...
Richard, Does KNTV-DT give DirecTV an ASI feed from the Harmonic encoder for their new MPEG4 transmission? If so, I didn't know anyone in S.F. was doing that...
The way I worded my question may cause confusion, I am aware that the Harmonic encoder outputs ASI or a SMPTE310 MPEG2 transport stream and that it would have...
Yes KNTV-DT does feed DirecTV with an Mpeg compressed ASI signal out of the encoder via fiber optics. Of course we continue to feed them an analog KNTV version...