[BC] Super bowl audio

[Bernie Courtney]

I spend way too much time at a TV studio, I'd much rather watch the game on
my couch :-)
In my case I was watching OTA via WNBC.  Not sure where you are but around
here, for those unfortunate enough to be served by them, when Comcast turns
content into "HD lite" they at least don't mess with the Dolby 5.1
bitstream, just downres and re-compress the video.  I did not see any jearky
video.  If you are referring to my comments about their score bar stuttering
while rendering animations, that was clearly a problem with a graphics
device, and had nothing to do with the transmission path.
b

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Bernie Courtney
Metro Broadcast Services
bcourtney at metrobcast.com

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:29 PM, <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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