[BC] NBC Olympic Video?

[Robert Meuser]

I appreciate that anything that interrupts the picture is bad.  I just 
try to mentally separate TX breakup from any ongoing coding artifact 
issue. Both are bad, together its worse. 

Here is a bigger question, though, how is the video actually being 
produced?  There is a common broadcast center that supports the whole 
world. Most camera feeds are pool feeds. In the SD world, this would all 
be native PAL.  I would seem logical that the HD would be 1080i/50, 
there is still some transcoding required.  We also do not know what 
amount of compression was used on the satellite link back to the US. 
Lots of bits and pieces involved that are potential problems.

R


Davis, Jack L. (KTXL) wrote:

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>My CRT is HD all 200 pounds of it.  It is a Panasonic 34 inch 16X9 with
>native 1080i.  I see fewer breakup and pixilation later this week, but they
>are still there.  The motion artifacts are mostly due to interlace and inter
>field movement.  On high speed events with lots of motion it is very
>apparent.  The curling looked fine!  I guess this is where 720p shines!  I
>am most likely more critical than the average viewer when it comes to
>quality, I suspect Joe Sixpack would be fine with it except for the breakup
>and audio pops.  Those random fits are what everyone would find annoying,
>and after looking at the avs forum it is a nationwide problem, not just here
>on the left coast.
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