WSVN-DT is a joke. Every other week there’s an issue with the digital signal. No PSIP, erratic signal strength, illegally broadcasting on channels assigned to others (RF 27 assigned to WXEL-DT), you name it. It’s always something. Truly unprofessional.
Comcast is lying if they say they aren’t compressing that signal. Even if they just didn’t compress any analog locals, that’s still close to 50 Mhz out of 750. And when they are pushing 200 channels, VOD, on-screen menus, plus all of their other services through one wire, they are definitely compressing. And HD/DT definitely gets compressed because that would take up even more bandwidth for local versions of channels that the majority of people still watch on cable on the original analog station.
It’s not just you. It pissed me off tonight trying to watch American Idol. I tried to call and complain but I couldn’t find their number in time.
Same problem here. I was watching House and got pissed off that I had to switch over to their analog channel. ::grrrr::
Cable compression hits us again! Trying to squeeze even more into that 750 MHz!
You think?
I’ve read, Comcast at least, re-broadcasts the signal directly from the TV station as they get it without re-compressing.
WSVN-DT is a joke. Every other week there’s an issue with the digital signal. No PSIP, erratic signal strength, illegally broadcasting on channels assigned to others (RF 27 assigned to WXEL-DT), you name it. It’s always something. Truly unprofessional.
Comcast is lying if they say they aren’t compressing that signal. Even if they just didn’t compress any analog locals, that’s still close to 50 Mhz out of 750. And when they are pushing 200 channels, VOD, on-screen menus, plus all of their other services through one wire, they are definitely compressing. And HD/DT definitely gets compressed because that would take up even more bandwidth for local versions of channels that the majority of people still watch on cable on the original analog station.