OTA local look better than same locals on Dish

[Falcon195]

I have been comparing my local channels OTA and with Dish. And the OTA locals look better than the same locals on Dish.
Is this the same others have been experiencing ?
Is there a reason this would be ?

 

[comfortably_numb]

I have been comparing my local channels OTA and with Dish. And the OTA locals look better than the same locals on Dish.
Is this the same others have been experiencing ?
Is there a reason this would be ?

The OTA stations are raw feeds recieved directly from your broadcast station. These can be up to 19.38mbps. Depending on how Dish receives your locals, they are often recompressed to fit on a transponder with many other locals, then rebroadcast over satellite to your location.

The method Dish uses to receive your locals varies- sometimes they have their own OTA antenna they use to pick them up, sometimes they have a fiber feed direct from the station.

 

[dweber]

It depends on many things. For the Columbus, Ohio market all of my network channels have several sub channels. Thus the broadcaster has to divide the OTA signal among the different channels. My family can not see much difference between the Dish OTA and the Dish Satellite channel on my Sony XBR-65X900E television.


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[HipKat]

It depends on many things. For the Columbus, Ohio market all of my network channels have several sub channels. Thus the broadcaster has to divide the OTA signal among the different channels. My family can not see much difference between the Dish OTA and the Dish Satellite channel on my Sony XBR-65X900E television.


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How does Fox look on your receiver, not the OTA? There's ongoing complaints that Fox in Columbus looks terrible

 

[Falcon195]

How does Fox look on your receiver, not the OTA? There's ongoing complaints that Fox in Columbus looks terrible

Fox on Dish looks pretty good. Not quite as good as the OTA Fox. But no worse than the other Dish locals.

 

[comfortably_numb]

I would say WTTE Fox 28 Columbus looks poor OTA also. Especially compared to WRGT in Dayton.

Top photo is WRGT, bottom is WTTE

 

[comfortably_numb]

Signal analysis shows WTTE is running about 13.5mbps, which isn't bad. But the picture looks grainy on my parents' 4K TV.

 

[bluegras]

Signal analysis shows WTTE is running about 13.5mbps, which isn't bad. But the picture looks grainy on my parents' 4K TV.

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Same thing also going on with the Chicago stations alot of them are pixeling on dish also too.wyin channel 56 pbs is currently down and all they are showing sorry for the Interup for your service

 

[comfortably_numb]

Same thing also going on with the Chicago stations alot of them are pixeling on dish also too.

I wasn't testing Dish local feeds, only OTA

 

[HipKat]

Well I saw it a few times on Dish's local broadcast of Fox and a bunch of guys who've been in and out of that market say they've seen it too

 

[dweber]

How does Fox look on your receiver, not the OTA? There's ongoing complaints that Fox in Columbus looks terrible

HipKat, you are correct that the Dish Satellite WTTE Fox 28-00 picture looks very grainy. I guess I had not noticed that because I don’t normally watch much programming on Fox. There is a very noticeable difference in picture quality between the Satellite Fox 28-00 and the OTA Fox 28-01.


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[HipKat]

HipKat, you are correct that the Dish Satellite WTTE Fox 28-00 picture looks very grainy. I guess I had not noticed that because I don’t normally watch much programming on Fox. There is a very noticeable difference in picture quality between the Satellite Fox 28-00 and the OTA Fox 28-01.


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That was my experience too. Fox 28. I couldn't remember the channel number

 

[ANAV8OR]

I have been comparing my local channels OTA and with Dish. And the OTA locals look better than the same locals on Dish.
Is this the same others have been experiencing ?
Is there a reason this would be ?

I'm in the Columbus, Ohio market and most of the locals are comparable OTA vs. on Dish. The one exception is Fox (WTTE, channel 28) - the Dish seems blurred compared to OTA. A good number of the Buckeye football games were broadcast on Fox this season and that's where I really noticed the difference.

 

[mwdxer1]

I have been comparing my local channels OTA and with Dish. And the OTA locals look better than the same locals on Dish.
Is this the same others have been experiencing ?
Is there a reason this would be ?

My OTA video quality is general better than Dish here, via translators.