Are there really any significant percentage of folks these days that can receive a digital SD signal but couldn't receive and display an HD one if present, at least in some form? Why would anyone bother with an SD clone channel.
- Tom Doug McDonald wrote:
Allen Le Roy Limberg wrote:At 11:35 AM -0800 2/5/07, John Willkie wrote:Sounds to me like WIVB-DT had the settings on their encoders setproperly. For a long while I had thought the networks sent out their stuff already packaged up in MPEG-2 packets eady to transmit. I'm told only Fox does this. ABC, CBS and NBC send out uncompressed digital video and audio, itseems; and, as John Wilkie's e-mail suggests, invidual broadcasters handlecompression into MPEG-2 packets for broadcast.Our local CBS station made it into the wonderful world of HD only 5 days before the Super Bowl. They also have an SD second channel of that network that replaced UPN. The Super Bowl looked pretty good to me, not anywhere near as artifact free as 720p on Fox, but perfectly OK. Is Letterman in HD? I have not tried watching him. Most CBS evening shows are done from film are thus of course rather fuzzy overall and don't stress the encoder at all. (This is, of course, a Nexstar station. They outright state that loud and virulent viewer demands for HD made Corporate give this station priority. Champaign- Springfield is apparently a leader in HDTV ownership. Almost all of my friends now own at least one HDTV. Doug McDonald ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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