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CBS4’s HDTV quality

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I’ve been meaning to post this for sometime now but keep forgetting. CBS4’s HDTV feed on Comcast 212 looks very … um cartoonish? Faces and just everything looks really smudged like it’s been painted over. The picture up close is clean, but objects further from the camera are not sharp where you can see details you’d expect seeing from a 1920x1080i HDTV feed. When they have a wide shot of the anchors and the meteorologist you can’t see their eyebrows or even their eyes, it’s all smudged.

I was wondering if anyone who has HDTV can confirm this. I suspect it’s happening because CBS 4 isn’t broadcasting in true 1920x1080i but instead the feed is an upconverted standart definition.

WTVJ sort of has the same problem but I don’t think theirs is as bad. I’ll post a couple of screen caps in a bit

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  1. i have this weird problem with wtvj. whenever there’s a full-screen graphic on-screen, i get a buzz in the audio. as soon as the graphic is gone, the buzz goes away too. this happens in both the local newscasts and on programs including “meet the press.” this doesn’t happen on any other station. go figure. anyone else with the same problem?

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