Thread: SF Bay Area - KCSM-HD (060-00)_made available

And whenever the uplink PC is restored, remember to remove the "PBS" designation, since it is an Indepedent Public TV Channel (like KCET).

I watched America's Test Kitchen on KCSM-HD today at 12:30PM and it was letterboxed.....

My 922 shows the channel icon as PBS HD even though it is not supposedly a PBS station.

So far, I see they show the following quality shows:

- Simply Ming (great show if you actually cook - he gives you all the details of techniques, etc.)
- Rick Steves (travel guide who knows a wealth of historical and cultural detals about Europe)
- Globe Trekker (also a travel show - widescreen but might not be in HD - running for 20 years - aka Pilot Guides, Lonely Planet)

Originally Posted by Bobby

I watched America's Test Kitchen on KCSM-HD today at 12:30PM and it was letterboxed.....

I checked Simply Ming - normally full HD on other channels - and it is letterboxed.

So, there is a 16x9 image with black bars around all 4 sides, with the KCSM logo in a spot that looks like it would have been "4x3 safe" if the whole letterboxed image were the size of the entire full HD screen.

HERE IS THE WEIRD PART - I checked the SD feed, and it has the entire HD feed letterboxed - meaning that there is a tiny 16x9 image inside twice as much black bars as would be seen if a full HD feed were being letterboxed.

So, the conclusion is that someone has mistakenly put a letterboxing on the HD feed and then the SD feed is adding another letterboxing to that already-letterboxed image.

This does not appear to be Dish Network's fault, since at night the HD feed is a full HD image.

I reported it to KCSM's tech email address, so we will see if there is a fix (or a response).

Reno PBS is now HD
Dan