Weekend problems for NBC

[oflaherty]

NBC had problems with the HD feed both Saturday and Sunday.
For Men in Back on Saturday they did the first half of the movie in HD.. but then just gave us a black HD screen for the rest of the movie. We had to switch over to upconverting the SD feed.
NBC has an instant message system to every affiliate station. But they didn't use it. We called NBC, they said the problem was on their end. We asked them why they didn't tell us there was a problem. They said sending out a message would generate too many phone calls.
 
Sunday NBC had the same problem with Boomtown. We went to the HD feed at 9:00 PM but there was nothing there..(except the NBC logo over a black screen.) So once again we switched over to the upconverted SD feed.
 
Lip sync also is a problem with some HD NBC programs. We could change it for the entire station, but then most of the programs would be wrong. We really need the incoming network feed to be correct.
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Sean at TMJ

[Gregg Lengling]

You know Sean, I told my wife they screwed up I thought it was HD when I first turned it on but my sister-in-law showed up and when we got back to it it was a 4:3 upconvert.....oh well...I've got it on DVD so I guess I coulded just plugged that in.


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Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
glengling@ameritech.net

[Kevin Arnold]

I thought there was a problem from NBC. When I saw TMJ running a SD feed I went to WMSN Madison and they just ran the black screen. The other problem is NBC should run a blurb or some kind of notice when they are showing in HD-like CBS does at the beginning of every HD show.