Is cable still an intermediary in your viewing situation? Might be affecting things a bit. John Willkie -----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eory Frank-p22212 Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:57 PM To: 'opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20040722 Thundering Thursday Thanks (Mark's Mon day Memo) >From: Keith Jack <Keith_Jack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:43:26 -0700 > >There are many local stations that already pull bit rate from HD program in >order to include a SD version and/or to send data. Did anyone notice when it >happened? I certainly notice! Our local ABC affiliate multicasts 1 HD + 1 SD program (ironically, the same program) and our PBS affiliate also does 1 HD + 1 SD (different programs). I don't have access to the original full bitrate HD streams, so I can't do an A/B comparison. But I can definitely see that ABC HD and PBS HD don't look nearly as good as CBS, Discovery or any of the other HD channels I get. Perhaps more to the point, even my wife and kids notice this. They don't work in this business and haven't spent countless hours examining video as I have. Untrained viewers DO see the difference! Of course, content rules. But all other things being equal, they (and I) would rather watch the prettiest pictures than the "pseudo-HD." -- Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.