Monday Night Football Oct. 2 - worst HD I've ever seen

wrote:
Was I having a stroke on Monday night, or was the MNF HD broadcast a
disaster? The picture kept switching from a "normal" HD broadcast to a
blurry mess whenever the HD SkyCam was used, and randomly throughout
normal camera transitions. Not only was the game blurry, but - and
this I just don't understand - the GRAPHICS were blurry too.

I was watching OTA, so I called a friend with Comcast in HD, and he
said he was seeing the same thing - on both the local affiliate (6 ABC)
*and* on ESPNHD.

Did anyone else see this?

What caused this? Bad truck?

~ Zymer

Here's a thread talking about this ONGOING ABC problem on AVSforum:

http://archive.avsforum.com/avs-vb/s...0&pagenumber=1

An quote from 2004:

ABC sent information to all affiliates yesterday asking those that had
Harris flexicoder HD compressors to make a setting change to eliminate
the going out of focus problem. ABC is saying that the problem only
happened in markets where the station was using a flexicoder. We have
made the requested change at KXTV Sacramento and have not had the focus
problem in game 2.

You're not going to believe this, but I just got a message from ABC
telling
us (with our Harris Flexicoder) to change the prefilter setting from
"0" to
"2". The folks over there found that the buffers in the unit were
overflowing and it essentially gets lost trying to find a good setting.

6ABC uses this Harris Flexicoder, so it looks like this is absolutely
the problem.

YO Larry.

ABC & ESPN are part of the same network.

"Larry Bud" wrote in message
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wrote:
Was I having a stroke on Monday night, or was the MNF HD broadcast a
disaster? The picture kept switching from a "normal" HD broadcast to a
blurry mess whenever the HD SkyCam was used, and randomly throughout
normal camera transitions. Not only was the game blurry, but - and
this I just don't understand - the GRAPHICS were blurry too.

I was watching OTA, so I called a friend with Comcast in HD, and he
said he was seeing the same thing - on both the local affiliate (6 ABC)
*and* on ESPNHD.

Clearly you were having a stroke, since MNF is not broadcast on ABC
anymore, so how your friend was seeing the "same thing" on ABC is
beyond me.

wrote:
Larry,

I'm the friend who WAS watching on ABC. Comcast Delaware County
carried the broadcast simultaneously on ABC and ESPN. It was of
equally bad quality on both. Is THAT beyond you?

Christ people, lighten up.

On 4 Oct 2006 10:52:58 -0700, "Mikepier"
wrote:


wrote:
Larry,

I'm the friend who WAS watching on ABC. Comcast Delaware County
carried the broadcast simultaneously on ABC and ESPN. It was of
equally bad quality on both. Is THAT beyond you?

I was watching it on ESPN here in NY with Cablevision and I thought it
looked great. Maybe it was a local problem?

Same here- watching on ESPN also - picture looked great sky cam shots
and all.

Jim

Yet another commentary on the MNF OTA signal:

http://www.tvpredictions.com/sand100506.htm

A similiar situation happened here in NY with the Yankee game last
night. It was on ESPN but also on My9. It was HD on ESPN, but My9
broadcasted the game in SD, even though it is a 720P channel. Why they
did that I don't know.