ESPN Picture Quality Worse Recently?

[primetimeguy]

OTA SD blows away Dish SD.

 

[Kb Cool]

when you bring up a satellite on thelist (say 61.5) you can sort by channel or transponder. Here is 61.5 done that way
SatelliteGuys.US_TheList - DISH Network 61.5°W

Thanks for the info. But, i don't even want too look at it. It's too depressing!

 

[Mr Tony]

now when you look at a transponder and see a bunch of channels on a transponder, if there are dupes of a channel its only one channel of bandwidth

example is TP2....Food is listed 4 times on there but its only 1 channel of bandwidth

 

[Kb Cool]

It looks like they are still doing eight channels per tp. But, what is the TMP HD. Is that active? If so that would make it 9. And a PQ destroyer.

 

[Mr Tony]

alot of TMP channels are just "there"...very little bandwidth is used for those

 

[jonesy99]

Does this mean at some point the terms dish and hd become mutually exclusive?

 

[mboron]

I'm on western arc in Alaska, where signal strength etc, is as low as anyone's, and ESPN as well as all my HD is pretty darn good. I watch ESPN alot, and haven't experienced any of the symptoms on this thread. (execpt during snow fade, which is just a way of life)

 

[primetimeguy]

What's your screen size and viewing distance?

 

[mboron]

46" Sony at about 8-10 feet.

 

[primetimeguy]

Then just be happy you don't see it.

 

[primetimeguy]

Duke/MSU game is atrocious PQ.

 

[Kb Cool]

Duke/MSU game is atrocious PQ.

Easy fix! Take 10 steps backwards away from your TV! Is that better now?

 

[JEFFinINDY]

Duke/MSU game is atrocious PQ.

I thought it was pretty good, actually...

 

[primetimeguy]

I figured I'd just trade in my TV for a 22" or something.

 

[primetimeguy]

I thought it was pretty good, actually...

Mosquito noise and edge-enhancement galore. It made even still shots lack detail because the enhancement was so high the encoders didn't know what to do. Granted the EE is on ESPN/camera side.

 

[primetimeguy]

Things seem to have made a change for the better recently. I noticed it and so did others on avs, ESPN HD/ESPN 2 HD Picture Quality Deteriorating? - AVS Forum

See this link posted by dr1394, ESPN IRD Rollout by Motorola

 

[JEFFinINDY]

Monday Night Football looks pretty good to my untrained eyes. 67" DLP at 11 feet...

 

[primetimeguy]

Ya, agree. While still a bit soft, one of the most noise free games I've seen on ESPN....similar to a couple bowl games I caught this weekend.

 

[primetimeguy]

It would appear that any improved pq was short lived. The last couple weeks things appear to be back to the normal poor pq. The aub/ore game is a good example. Very soft and has compression artifacts even on the score bar. Most others on Avs are reporting good pq, so I have to blame dish on this one.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

It would appear that any improved pq was short lived. The last couple weeks things appear to be back to the normal poor pq. The aub/ore game is a good example. Very soft and has compression artifacts even on the score bar. Most others on Avs are reporting good pq, so I have to blame dish on this one.

I'm a Dish EA sub and the pq was very good, as it was for all of the bowl games I saw on ESPN over the last couple of weeks....