CBS 58 WDJT-TV HD should do something special for a special event like the Super Bowl

[Mark Strube]

I think they should end their multicasting, which especially kills quality on sporting events, for 1 single night, so that we get glorious full bitrate for this event which thousands of people have bought HDTV's especially for.

Make their first impression of the HD world (and CBS) a great one - drop WMLW for one night, I beg you.

Sincerely,
Mark Strube

[Blitzburgh]

I agree. Is this possible Jim?

[Joseph S]

Just set up my Boston HDPVR for 700GB more of weekly CBS fullbitrate and ABC unbranded recordings, including the AFC Championship tomorrow and the Superbowl. There's also the benefit of next to zero switching screwups. It looks so much better than the multicast editions. I'm guessing you've got a 0.00001% chance of getting this request granted from the station that used to bring regular HDNET simulcasts. Good luck.

[Mark Strube]

LOL thanks for that Braggy McBragerson. Glug2

[Joseph S]

Go Bears or the fullbitrate SuperBowl recording hits the trash, well it probably will still hit the trash... but at least I can watch it.   At least the Pat's kickers still don't choke under pressure...

[TPK]

In a semi-related question

Does the multi-casting hurt the PQ for the superbowl if you get your CBS HD from TWC??

How does TWC get its CBS feed?  Do they just pull it off the air and re-transmit it, with the lower PQ associated with OTA broadcasting with multi-cast?

Or does it get its own higher quality feed direct from the affiliate and re-broadcast that, without the extra compression required for a multi-cast?

So I guess the long and short of it, without all the jargon is:

Will the quality of the picture be better with TWC than over the air, or will it be the same, when watching the Superbowl??

[HDCheeseHead]

Anyone see the today's Circuit City ad where they advertise that "experience the Super Bowl on CBS HD 2/4/07 with DIRECTV"?  I don't see anything in the footnotes to indicate any special requirements.  Whats the deal with that?  Did WDJT do something special for the Super Bowl and allow D* to carry the signal?  I wouldn't think that a local sales ad could put in things that aren't relevant to the local area without adding some kind of footnote.

[Blitzburgh]

Anyone see the today's Circuit City ad where they advertise that "experience the Super Bowl on CBS HD 2/4/07 with DIRECTV"?  I don't see anything in the footnotes to indicate any special requirements.  Whats the deal with that?  Did WDJT do something special for the Super Bowl and allow D* to carry the signal?  I wouldn't think that a local sales ad could put in things that aren't relevant to the local area without adding some kind of footnote.

I am guessing that is a nationwide thing.

[Gregg Lengling]

I think they should send their ENG truck down there for the SB....OOOOPS forgot...it's a little wet and frozen.:rofl:

[TAS]

I can confirm that WISC-DT dropped their sub channel for the game!
http://www.madcityhd.com/index.php/topic,55.0.html




WDJT didn't, although 58-2 looks horrible.


So glad I watch only channels: 3,4,6,10,12,18,24,36,57!      ---58 SUCKS

[Bebop]

I wouldn't say horrible, it actually looks pretty good. But, the rain and fog on the lens kind of blurred everything on some shots.

[TAS]

58-2 looks horrible.

I was hinting they gave it less bandwidth than normal. (58-2)


58-1 looks almost the same as WISC-DT

[kjnorman]

I watched the game over at a friend's on TW 505.  I noticed quite a lot of horrible pixalation on fast pans.  Otherwise the picture was fairly decent when there was not much movement.  Duh!  This is football!  There was lots of movement and hence lots of nasty horrible pixels thanks to bit-rate starvation....

[kjnorman]

Any bad spelling is due to too many bears (a-hem beers) tonight.  Yo Colts!  Glug2 Glug2

[brewtownska]

I noticed the pixelation too on TWC 505 at a friend's house, but I really think that's more of the 1800i signal's limitation than the bitrate.  What do you guys think...are the 720p feeds better for football than the 1080i, or was this just a bitrate issue?