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Retro Network Having Problems?
- Thread starter landtuna
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The same goes with the 1996 Doctor Who back door TV movie pilot. The BBC ownes the series but Fox still claims the US distrobution rights including the home video rights. Warner Home Video have the current home video rights for both series and any spin offs with the exception of the TV movie.
This why I waited to import the movie for 10 pounds sterling plus shipping. (about 25 USD)
BTW Phillips HDMI DVD player works well with my import DVD's.
This why I waited to import the movie for 10 pounds sterling plus shipping. (about 25 USD)
BTW Phillips HDMI DVD player works well with my import DVD's.
Monday....tick, tick, tick.....and the hilarity continues.
Tuned in for my daily "McHale's Navy" dose and get "Kate & Allie" instead. The online listing still says "McHale's Navy". There is no EPG and the info panel has no info either so it looks like another unattended unintended day at AZTV. Damn commercials still run.
Tuned in for my daily "McHale's Navy" dose and get "Kate & Allie" instead. The online listing still says "McHale's Navy". There is no EPG and the info panel has no info either so it looks like another unattended unintended day at AZTV. Damn commercials still run.
Lip synch off again on McHale's Navy today, then I hung around to see
how bad and grainy the film print would be on Peter Gunn, and they ran
an episode that just aired last week!
how bad and grainy the film print would be on Peter Gunn, and they ran
an episode that just aired last week!
It is possible that RTV have limited rights to some of the series.
Plus when I watch Two and a Half Men syndicated on WTTE DT it seems that seasons one and two are in heavy rotation.
I do agree that RTV and the local afillates need to do a better job. Does RTV deliver by broadband or Big Ugly Dish?
Plus when I watch Two and a Half Men syndicated on WTTE DT it seems that seasons one and two are in heavy rotation.
I do agree that RTV and the local afillates need to do a better job. Does RTV deliver by broadband or Big Ugly Dish?
willcail said:
What you all are seeing are very well known problems with RTV, and to be perfectly honest, alot of the affiliates are sick of it. Our bonifide complaints go ignored by the current general manager, and they cannot seem to correct problems with the automation they wrote themselves.
I was assured by the owner of RTV that the repeated episodes would end on the 1st, then the 9th, then they skipped backward on the 11th. Yesterday they incremented by 1 episode, so there is some hope, maybe.
RTV made changes to the schedules for several affiliates on Aug 1, but never bothered to inform anyone. We need at least 2 weeks notice to get the EPG done right. We will never have extended data, as that would involve actually knowing what episode will air 2 weeks from now.
RTV delivers via C and Ku band. We take the C band feed here at WSAH. Additionally the encoding is non-standard and unreliable. Our receivers have crashed 4 times in one month, in contrast to the 2 years I have going on a Motorola Digicipher receiver.
They are -this- close to losing their top 3 markets.
Ron said:
There is nothing very technical about receiving Digicipher-encoded signals over C or Ku. Thousands of people still use that as an alternative to the pizza dishes. What makes RTV unique?
Oh, and last night (8-12) the intro to McHale's Navy ran two times back to back. Methinks this is an editing issue at HQ.
It has always had the appearance of a third-rate operation. It's a great idea that needs better, more creative minds (and money) behind it for RTV to be successful.
landtuna said:
They dont use Digi, nor PowerVu, nor DVB of any standard flavor. They use QPSK, its very rare. You missed the comparison that I get 2 to 5 years out of a DigiCipher receiver and 2-5 DAYS out of a Sencore Atlas.
I'm pretty tired of explaining why that happens as frankly there is absolutely NO excuse, email the network on their website, or join their facebook page and start screaming.
Shhhh, I shouldnt say this out loud, but Emergency has aired 4 episodes, in a row!! Is the end of this in sight?
Sigh... the problem is basically this...
The automation looks for a very specific naming convention, basically Season#Episode#, sort of like the standard we use here on the web like S03E02. When RTV parted ways with Equity, they destroyed the library out of spite, and RTV was left with 60 CLIPS, not shows, not episodes, clips. Thats ads, segments, bumpers, and so on.
They could not get the proper tapes from the distributors in a timely fashion, so they raided video stores, people's DVD collections, etc, and tossed a bunch of people at redubbing. As a result there is vastly varying quality and... naming of episodes. They did this with only 4 hours of downtime during the transition.
Once again they threw a bunch of people at it and RTV is redubbing everything from the masters now, following the naming convention set forth, processing the audio better and upping the bitrate. They are going in order of highest rated to lowest rated show. So... it appears that Emergency is done... we should see this shake out over the course of the month.
And thats it, I'm done defending them.
Sigh... the problem is basically this...
The automation looks for a very specific naming convention, basically Season#Episode#, sort of like the standard we use here on the web like S03E02. When RTV parted ways with Equity, they destroyed the library out of spite, and RTV was left with 60 CLIPS, not shows, not episodes, clips. Thats ads, segments, bumpers, and so on.
They could not get the proper tapes from the distributors in a timely fashion, so they raided video stores, people's DVD collections, etc, and tossed a bunch of people at redubbing. As a result there is vastly varying quality and... naming of episodes. They did this with only 4 hours of downtime during the transition.
Once again they threw a bunch of people at it and RTV is redubbing everything from the masters now, following the naming convention set forth, processing the audio better and upping the bitrate. They are going in order of highest rated to lowest rated show. So... it appears that Emergency is done... we should see this shake out over the course of the month.
And thats it, I'm done defending them.
Is there really that much competition for digital subchannel affiliations that you'd leave RTV to go to ... some other network? Or are we talking just blanking the channel?
Ron said:
So if the network is fed via satellite, can you explain a bit further...
At 6pm PT weekdays, KAZT-TV 7.2 Prescott/Phoenix runs Adam 12, but I've seen
that this same show doesn't necessarily air at 9 ET/6 PT on every other RTV affil.
Is Adam 12 fed a certain time each day and do the affils record them (to a server,
to tape, whatever) for local airing per their schedule?
WCMH doesn't have the problems with RTV that are listed on this thread.
I highly doubt that any EPG takes about two weeks to program.
WCMH RTV feed started to air I Spy after the 8pm EST infomercial block. They also starting to air Adventures of Robin Hood, Cisco Kid, and Peter Gunn.
If RTV send their feed via C/Ku dish is it possible to pick up the feed using a Free to Air Sat Recevier?
I highly doubt that any EPG takes about two weeks to program.
WCMH RTV feed started to air I Spy after the 8pm EST infomercial block. They also starting to air Adventures of Robin Hood, Cisco Kid, and Peter Gunn.
If RTV send their feed via C/Ku dish is it possible to pick up the feed using a Free to Air Sat Recevier?
willcail said:
Yep... sure it can trickle through quicker, but that's the target time.
Yep... there was a discussion on that on satelliteguys.com Only certain receivers will do it. Its on AMC-3 for C.
oldiesfan6479 said:
They send custom streams to each affiliate. One of the plus sides of their strange encoding, a bitrate of 1.5mb doesnt look half bad.
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