No HD on Fox?

Gordon

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Mar 11, 2004

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• Aug 7, 2010

• #1

Was watching the Yankee game and the signal is not coming in as HD. Is this a Dish/Fox problem? Other channels are still in HD on my 622.

 

fbara

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Dec 15, 2008

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• Aug 7, 2010

• #2

This is a normal (problem, issue) with E*. Do a search on the forums for games not in HD, you'll find a bunch of info there.

 

osu1991

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Sep 4, 2004

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• Aug 7, 2010

• #3

If it is on Fox, it is not a normal Dish RSN problem. It is more than likely your local Fox affiliate was having a problem and had to drop to the SD feed.

 

apollog

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• Aug 7, 2010

• #4

It was a Fox problem, I also noticed it on Directv.

 

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Doppy

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• Aug 7, 2010

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It was still happening in primetime with Cops and AMW.

 

bacchus101

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• Aug 8, 2010

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It was a Fox problem, I also noticed it on Directv.

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I sent a scathing email to my locale Fox affiliate. I was livid that the game was not in HD.

Whoops! Guess it was further up the chain, lol.

 

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crowderk

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• Aug 8, 2010

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We get a FOX through the locals pkg. and another Fox Station OTA, The OTA Fox Station we were watching had the game in HD with no issues.

 

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Doppy

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Aug 24, 2006

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• Aug 8, 2010

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Fox 5 is having a technical issue with its transmitters and WNYW 5-1 is not on the air. Viewers should be able to pick up 5-2 (Our Standard Definition feed) while we continue to work to get 5-1 back on the air.

Source: http://www.myfoxny.com/

 

ProfStata

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• Aug 8, 2010

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bacchus101 said:

I sent a scathing email to my locale Fox affiliate. I was livid that the game was not in HD.

Whoops! Guess it was further up the chain, lol.

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And that helped because I'm sure the affiliate doesn't want to upset baseball fans.

 

bacchus101

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• Aug 9, 2010

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adkinsjm said:

And that helped because I'm sure the affiliate doesn't want to upset baseball fans.

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Actually, it WAS the affiliates choice not to air the game in HD.

Response I received:

The federal government only allows us to use 19.3 megabytes per second for all of our content streams. Currently CBS high def takes up 13 of the 19.3. New compression ratios are being developed every day and it is my hope to either send out each network in high def at 9 megabytes or find a variable bit rate encoder which puts the most resources to the signal that needs it the most. Most likely any sporting events. The problem here is Fox and CBS have to agree.

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Basically CBS and FOX are on the same tower on the same channel, with different sub channels (8-1 and 8-2.) Clearly a clusterfox to my HD baseball watching ambitions. Not that it matters. NESN is in HD and I don't think the Sox are going to be on Fox this October. Ok, I know they are not going to be on Fox this October.

He did add that they would provide the FOX HD stream to Dish as soon as they asked for it. I'm not sure how reassuring that was meant to be...