Bay Area Quality now...

[curtishd]

So how is the HD local channels in the bay area now? Have issues been fixed? What channel are you getting in hd and the quality of each?

 

[who_the]

HD locals in 720p (KTVU/2-FOX and KGO/7-ABC) look good. Not quite as good as OTA, but really just fine. 1080i locals (KPIX/5-CBS and KNTV/11-NBC) look very poor, like they're skipping frames in addition to being overcompressed.

 

[Grandude]

email to dishquality@echostar.com once and need to repeat as no reply as yet other than a request for more details. I sure hope they fix this soon.
KNTV channel 11 is atrocious to watch and KPIX channel 5 (ABC) has audio sync errors all the time. Sometimes worse and sometimes not too bad.
VERY disappointing.............................

 

[Mikef5]

Grandude,
Not to nit pick but KPIX is CBS, KGO is ABC. I've noticed the lip sync errors on ABC with my OTA setup so it might be a station problem, I don't watch alot of ABC except for Lost or if they're showing a sports program. Also I noticed that there are drop outs once in a while on CBS that will drop the signal both on OTA and on my Comcast channel so I'm sure that is a station problem since it happens on both at the same time ( I used split screen on the tv to verify this ). Yes, I'm cable just waitiing for my Dish install.

Laters,
Mikef5

 

[gdarwin]

Response for locals at dishquality@echostar.com usually takes days in my experience.

 

[hhkr]

KTVU and KGO have definately improved and the picture quality is better. I have to reset just about every day to get KGO into snyc though. KNTV goes up and down, mostly down lately, but last week I saw a couple of better pq shows. KPIX has been going downhill, the CBS hd programs are quite good at times, but tonight NCIS is a little grainy and slightly blurry. All in all its improving.

Tim

 

[MikeD-C05]

OR you're getting used to the sub par quality.