[BC] Super bowl audio

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

I thought that the crappy audio and jerky video was caused
by the re-modulation to QAM that Comcast does to so-called
HDTV. I couldn't check the off-air signal because I was watching
at a friend's home, not mine.

If the raw HDTV was really as bad as what I heard and saw,
methinks broadcasting is in a world of hurt.

Although Comcast has been advertising up a storm referencing
the Analog cutoff-date, they are fooling the public into claiming
that they are transmitting HDTV. They are converting HDTV into
the low-bandwidth QAM that they have been using for years
to supply NTSC television to home viewers. What I see is
certainly low noise, but it has color quantization to, probably
only 16 colors, perhaps eight bits of RGB like a Microsoft
Web Pages, high pixellation, nothing at all like I get off-the-air
from Boston stations, and awful audio.

So it is unfair to judge unless you were at a TV studio
or at least getting HDTV off the air. I sure hope that Comcast
upgrades their modems so that the viewer gets real HDTV.

--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
http://www.LymanSchool.org

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Bernie Courtney <bcourtney at metrobcast.com>
> >From a production standpoint it was probably one of the sloppiest games NBC
> has done all season.  I've watched all 19 (including the SB) games on NBC
> this season with the same two people.  One who works in the industry as
> well, and one who's just a casual observer, but probably somewhat jaded from
> spending too much time with us.  We all unanimously agreed on the fact it
> was sloppy.
> 
> -The surround mix was probably once of the worst all season for NBC.  I'm
> not sure what Willy was hearing on the stereo mix, but on a very good 5.1
> setup in my home it was very flat with especially the rear channels