HD channels with Video & Sound Problem 5/29/04

[vurbano]

cinemax east and west are screwed up

 

[vurbano]

encorehd, tnthd, are messed up

 

[Sean Mota]

Yes, max-hd east and west are doing the same...

 

[vurbano]

bravohd seems ok.

 

[vurbano]

discoveryhd is ok

 

[vurbano]

tmchd is not hd right now, but looks ok.

 

[vurbano]

so far 4 feeds, all on the same 50mbs transponder?

 

[vurbano]

HBOE and W
CINemax E and W
encore and TNT

anymore?

 

[mdanderson]

For me it is TNTHD, CNN, CNNFN, TCM. There may be others.

 

[ChetK]

It seems like everything I want to watch is doing it. Finding Nemo, The Ring, etc. Man, the first day I have it and I have all of this HD at my fingertips, and it's unwatchable. I'm sure they'll fix it.

 

[squicken]

PBHOTHD is black screening and audio frop outs every 10 seconds. I was just checking it for information al purposes. Informational purposes, yeah . . . that's it.

 

[vurbano]

seems to have stopped on HBOeast The Ring

 

[NOHDjunkie]

This is exactly what was happening to me the other day.

See thread

 

[Scubasoul]

It's because they are updating their decoders

 

[saytre]

Things seem better

I had to go out for a while .checked hd channels for droppouts when I returned home
seems like it has been resolved. I will keep monitoring it though.

 

[ChetK]

It's because they are updating their decoders

How do you know this? Can you give more info than that?

 

[Sean Mota]

How do you know this? Can you give more info than that?

I think he is being sarcastic since it is the response we all give when PQ or problems arise. But it is true that they have been working on the encoder for a long time now. This is why cinema 10, monsters and epics are at 720p now. Also, the fact that they will be converting to mpeg4 or wm9 does require testing on the encoder. Whether this can be done on a separate system, I do not know.

 

[ChetK]

I know I've said it in another thread, but my initial impressions of Voom are such that I hope mpeg4 or wm9 helps their compression artifacts because their current compression is visible on all HD channels (including DiscoveryHDTheater and BravoHD+). These channels should be virtually flawless.

 

[eschu97611]

It's because they are updating their decoders

The old "decoder/encoder" excuse again-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh brother!!


How are the "upgrades" coming along Voom-Noah wants to know, he just finished his ark-LMAO

 

[Sean Mota]

The old "decoder/encoder" excuse again-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh brother!!


How are the "upgrades" coming along Voom-Noah wants to know, he just finished his ark-LMAO

That's a good one.