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WPVI 6-2 now Live Well in HD?

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ajc_trw

There's been some talk about WABC replacing one of its SD channels with Live Well in HD making WABC the first station to broadcast two HD subchannels symaltaneously. Just today I saw this will happen to all ABC owned stations with their -1 (ABC-HD) channels broadcasting with only 8.5Mbps down from around 13Mbps. I commented at this rate we could have had HD on DVD dual-layer, sarcastically. :p

Just now I turned my Verizon FiOS to watch WPVI 6-2 and found LW in HD (I have an SD box which said I couldn't watch the channel). :mad:

Question: How does WPVI's ABC-HD (OTA) look now? How does the first HD news look? And for those in the southwest who can pick up WMAR-2 (as WABC is in the same boat) how does Philly ABC-HD compare to Baltimore ABC-HD.

Just curious. 8)
 
Watching Lost last night, I noticed some artifacting, but not enough to totally stop the picture stability. The image does appear to be somewhat less detailed, though. This isn't really as bad as WPPX's quality (or lack thereof) with their situation of having the main channel in 720p and three subchannels in SD (480i). WPPX is very choppy at times with more artificating than you can shake a stick at.
 
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