My feed of tonight's Seahawk game was pixelated throughout. Watching KFFX/KCYU out of Tri-Cities/Yakima. Anyone know what went wrong? Was this a problem with the source station, or something down the line?
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Problems with Seahawks live game video tonight?
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So this is not apparently an unusual situation. I'm not sure where the problem is occurring, but seems to be a growing problem. With the Seahawks preseason game last night, it is not entirely clear where the problem occurred along the line. The commercials, both network and local, aired fine. I understand interference among receivers can be the cause, but this lasted throughout the entire game. WTF?
There were problems last night with the game going black at times on Q13 during the Raiders matchup. Anybody else across the northwest see that as well?
You are correct, swhyde. I didn't watch until this morning and thought there was something going on with my DVR, until I realized that the Q13 bug remained intact. Happened every few minutes throughout the broadcast.
Well atleast from here on out we will get network quality as opposed to whatever KCPQ was doing...
Here is where to find Seahawk regular season games this year:
Week 1 - 9/9 @Denver (Fox)
Week 2 - 9/17 @Chicago (ESPN)
Week 3 - 9/23 Dallas (Fox)
Week 4 - 9/30 @Arizona (Fox)
Week 5 - 10/7 LA Rams (Fox)
Week 6 - 10/14 @Oakland (Fox)
Week 8 - 10/28 @Detroit (Fox)
Week 9 - 11/4 LA Chargers (CBS)
Week 10 - 11/11 @LA Rams (CBS)
Week 11 - 11/15 Green Bay (Fox)
Week 12 - 11/25 @Carolina (Fox)
Week 13 - 12/2 San Francisco (NBC)
Week 14 - 12/10 Minnesota (ESPN)
Week 15 - 12/16 @San Francisco (Fox)
Week 16 - 12/23 Kansas City (NBC)
Week 17 - 12/30 Arizona (Fox)
And what is up with the 'hawks playing 5 of their first 7 games on the road? Jusk asking...
I just assumed it was a sign of mourning for the upcoming season.
It all started with the MP3. Broadcasters realize viewers/listeners will accept crap for quality. When people accepted the dithered down MP3 as the new standard for listening to personal music, it started the down hill slide of "Broadcast quality.
Hopefully the network games won't use a Cell phone as the link to the network studio.
Hopefully the network games won't use a Cell phone as the link to the network studio.
Keep in mind, there's no one watching the store at KCYU. Their master control, I believe, is at KAYU Spokane, but I may be wrong. I know KNDO/KNDU is ran out of KHQ, KAYU's sister station. In fact there's no such thing as a master control anymore for any local station. KYVE cancelled all their local shows and threw *everything* to KCTS years ago, KIMA's ran out of KOMO Plaza in Seattle, and KAPP is ran out of KXLY in Spokane.
TV doesn't use MP3 for video. Nor is that the same as MPEG2 video (less compression), or MPEG4 (H.264) HD video compression.
Chances are it wasn't a compression issue, but a satellite reception problem at KCPQ, or whatever affiliate receiving the game from a network. Depending on the cause, whether it be terrestrial or space-based interference, dropped packets or breakup in a satellite feed can be a bit*h to get around once it starts happening.
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