CBS March Madness Basketball

[kevinsickles]

Is it just me? or is the CBS HD NCAA Basketball tournament feed
terrible. Blurry Pixelation.

 

[CubsWin]

You're right, it's bad...

 

[vmaxed]

Looks OK here OTA...

 

[lakebum431]

I've been between OTA and DishHD and I've seen it quite a bit. It is a CBS thing for sure. Has been irritating me as well.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

We can only hope it gets better next weekend as the game sites are reduced to four....

 

[Mr Tony]

Is it just me? or is the CBS HD NCAA Basketball tournament feed
terrible. Blurry Pixelation.

what CBS HD do you get??? (what city)

Since Dish cant offer CBS HD from NY or LA to anyone outside of those areas, you must be dealing with a local CBS HD station

 

[kevinsickles]

New York

 

[cummingsje]

Is it just me? or is the CBS HD NCAA Basketball tournament feed
terrible. Blurry Pixelation.

Experiencing the same in Michigan (OTA via 622). Flint and Lansing locals look the same. Must be a CBS issue.

 

[Barry Erick]

It is fine here (Wilkes-Barre,PA off air on 622 receiver)

 

[Beckhamfam]

I'm glad it's CBS, I got a new TV and thought it was a problem with the TV.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

Mine's OTA too and the problem has got to be with the affiliate because I watched the CBS highlights on ESPN HD this morning and the PQ was a lot better there....

 

[LER]

I didn't see any issues OTA here in Austin (both via 622 Tuner and my Aquos' tuner). KEYE-TV.

 

[sammy4041]

Picture has been fine for me OTA out of Lacrosse. Quite nice actually.

 

[mogera]

NYC here....ABSOLUTELY UNWATCHABLE!!! Both OTA and Dish were almost painful to watch.

 

[jmel]

No offense to those that are fanboys of 1080i, but this is exactly why I think 720p should be used for anything outside of still-type shows with talking heads.

 

[ehren]

WISC-3 in Madison multicasts MYTV on 3-2 and 3-1 CBS looks like total garbage. The screen actually blurrs and the sharpness comes back when the motion is still. It's horrible.

 

[HokieEngineer]

Watched via OTA and the picture looked good. The dish NYC feed looked HORRIBLE though. Although it seems like that might be the fault of the local CBS station.

 

[JohnH]

If they are doing the additional 3 games in SD at the same time they likely are compressing somewhat and that may be some of the differences between stations.

 

[thedamaja]

WISC-3 in Madison multicasts MYTV on 3-2 and 3-1 CBS looks like total garbage. The screen actually blurs and the sharpness comes back when the motion is still. It's horrible.

My local CBS here in South Bend has the same issue with all Football and basketball games. From what I gathered digging on the web it's an issue with the Harris Flexicoder most CBS stations use at there end. When to much information is received it basically freezes the picture and then rebuilds the image. This is what causes the blur. Apparently most where set to Automatic when they were installed. The proposed solution is to set the MPEG prefilter to off instead of Adaptive in manual mode.

I'm no engineer so It's very possible theres other things at play. I've emailed WSBT here in South Bend to see what they have to say.

 

[DISH_NC]

Here in Raleigh, NC - we only currently have OTA for CBS and they reconfigured their OTA Digital as 4 SD Channels. Only Cable Subs or D* could get the HD feed.

We were stuck with SD for the first 2 rounds. On Monday, they reconfigured back to One main HD and one SD channel. We'll see what the sweet 16 looks like.