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AnalogRocks
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:16 am Post subject: NBC picks up two sub chanels |
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I just noticed that NBC had changed their 2-2 chanel here ( Buffalo ) to Universal sports. All sports that nobody watches all the time in glorious MPEG1. ( super macro blocked crap )
Also on 2-3 they brought back RTN, Retro Television Network not quite as bad as the Sports network but close. I'm just watching Simon and Simon.  I want that power wagon!
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Sometimes you just have to wonder why they bother at all. BTW, what do you mean, "here (Buffalo)"? Are you here legally? 
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| WanMan wrote: | | Sometimes you just have to wonder why they bother at all. BTW, what do you mean, "here (Buffalo)"? Are you here legally? |
Buffalo's about 50-60 miles as the crow flies.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: NBC picks up two sub chanels |
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | All sports that nobody watches all the time in glorious MPEG1. ( super macro blocked crap ) |
I watch some stuff on there. Games which are nothing more than glorified keep away (football, basketball, cricket, baseball, soccer, etc) have never interested me as spectator sports.
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It's the 2nd sub channel here (in Philly) and
A: depending on the source the quality ranged from bad to HD and
B: Some of it was worth a look. Womens beach Volleyball from China...(nice) and a Major Track and field event from Germany that looked Really good.
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I like the potential variety offered up by having the sub-channels, the thing that pisses me off is that it's at the expense of the PQ on the main channel. They only have 19.2 Mpbs to work with, so if they're burning 2 Mbps to run A-Team reruns, that's 2 Mbps (10%) that can't go to PQ for the main program. They can do fuzzy SD programs and not use much bandwidth, but if they're running sports, then they're probably basically splitting the 19.2 Mbps in half. You can imagine how well that works out.
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| ecrabb wrote: | I like the potential variety offered up by having the sub-channels, the thing that pisses me off is that it's at the expense of the PQ on the main channel. They only have 19.2 Mpbs to work with, so if they're burning 2 Mbps to run A-Team reruns, that's 2 Mbps (10%) that can't go to PQ for the main program. They can do fuzzy SD programs and not use much bandwidth, but if they're running sports, then they're probably basically splitting the 19.2 Mbps in half. You can imagine how well that works out.
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It's digital, it's not supposed to work.
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That would be in stark contrast to high definition analog off-the-air, which works great, right? Oh, wait. Never mind.
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| ecrabb wrote: | That would be in stark contrast to high definition analog off-the-air, which works great, right? Oh, wait. Never mind.
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Well if the FCC had gone with the HiVision system back in 1989 we would have had 1025i for 20 years now instead of the dig-d-d-d......digital signals that stut--st-stutter.
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