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Olympics video quality

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TXengineer

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Am I the only one whos noticed the poor quality the HD downconverted to SD signal looks on NBC? The graphics, the majority of the camera shots, and even the studio segments look, well, bad. You can see pixilation in letters, funny camera video singing. It just looks, well, bad.

It isn't a one station problem, as it looks like this on other NBC affils running the same feed...
 
I've noticed something else tonight. On a couple of occasions the video rapidly flutters between normal and stretched and back again - just for a few seconds, and we all know stretched 4x3 is in no way acceptable. (Nor is squeezed 16x9 for that matter). It just happened during the first few minutes of ski jumping on the late night show as well as during an interview at speed skating in primetime.

For the record, I'm watching this on KING-TV Seattle via dish Network. Anyone else see this strangeness anywhere else?
 
> Am I the only one whos noticed the poor quality the HD
> downconverted to SD signal looks on NBC? The graphics, the
> majority of the camera shots, and even the studio segments
> look, well, bad. You can see pixilation in letters, funny
> camera video singing. It just looks, well, bad.
>
> It isn't a one station problem, as it looks like this on
> other NBC affils running the same feed...
>

I noticed it as I was running the opening ceremonies.

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HD was bad last night because of the snow storm in New York. Their analog signal was sent from Burbank last night and not from New York.
 
> HD was bad last night because of the snow storm in New York.
> Their analog signal was sent from Burbank last night and
> not from New York.
>

They don't transmit in analog. NBC transmits in QPSK digital on all SD feeds.
The main network feed was probably uplinked out of Burbank. which they do whenever there is bad weather. (They use WNBC's doppler radar feed in the control room to tell when to fire up the alternate site...)

All major networks now transmit in digital, with ABC finally switching over to Digital within the last few months.
 
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