Right now, WGGB-DT1 blank, WGGB-DT2 normal programming

[DJKraze]

On the OTA signal, DT1 seems to be down right now, but Fox 6 is running fine, anyone know what's up? (is it still up on the cable systems out there?)

 

[DJKraze]

I ran downstairs for a minute and now it's back, but I notice a difference, I don't know when they did it, but the DT2 is now at a different resolution, when I looked before, DT2 was 480, now it's boxed. I wonder if they took some of the bandwidth away from the main channel?

 

[tripinva]

Definitely possible. One of their engineers told me they were going to attempt to do HD on both ABC and Fox, guess they finally implemented it.

Hopefully it won't look too lousy.

- Trip

 

[DJKraze]

Yeah, that's definitely what it was, I forgot to mention the HDTV indicator on my receiver was lit up on both channels, and now that I've gone back to check on it, this is no longer the case, the resolution is worse on Fox 6 than it was before the test. My receiver iss an Accurian HTDV set-top receiver with down conversion to analog and has an on-screen indicator for HDTV, multi-language, captions, stereo and dolby. Right now Fox 6 is not HDTV.

 

[necrat123]

To do two HD streams, you would need a transport rate of 9.265mbps per stream to fill the maximum usable 18.53. (Remember while the entire stream is 19.39, some bandwidth is allocated for program guide, PSIP data, and other sources). I've seen what HDTV looks like at 12mbps, and it was terrible. Horrible motion artifacts, MPEG artifacts, and , well, it wasn't pretty. At 9.265, especially with the real high quality programming on FOX HD, it would look terrible, I think.

 

[tripinva]

To do two HD streams, you would need a transport rate of 9.265mbps per stream to fill the maximum usable 18.53. (Remember while the entire stream is 19.39, some bandwidth is allocated for program guide, PSIP data, and other sources). I've seen what HDTV looks like at 12mbps, and it was terrible. Horrible motion artifacts, MPEG artifacts, and , well, it wasn't pretty. At 9.265, especially with the real high quality programming on FOX HD, it would look terrible, I think.

Don't worry, it will. That hasn't stopped a number of stations from doing it:

KWBF (Temporarily)
KALB
KBMT
KXII
KWTX
KLCW
WKYT (Has since ceased)

And I hear rumors of other stations which want to do this as well, WGGB among them.

- Trip

 

[DJKraze]

Yeah, there was some motion artifacts, but the current setting in just SD mode is really loaded with them. It was a major improvement, though not perfect.

 

[DJKraze]

Looks like both WGGB DT1 & 2 are HDTV again, although they don't seem to be running the FOX HD feed. Also my display now reads "40-2 FOX 6-D" instead of "40-2 WGGB-DT2".