CBS it's time to shite or get off the pot

[LucasD]

Your HD sports broadcasts still look terrible.  The Packer game may as well be in SD.

:bang:

That is all.

[PONIES]

This is what happens when you have at least 3 subchannels at any given time and bitrate-starve your main HD feed to ~9 Mbps.

WDJT is one of the worst looking CBS affiliates in the country.

[trev57]

This is what happens when you have at least 3 subchannels at any given time and bitrate-starve your main HD feed to ~9 Mbps.

WDJT is one of the worst looking CBS affiliates in the country.

And they are pretty much all useless.

On the plus side, there was a promo for CBS 58 news done in HD. It's on its way.

[LoadStar]

This is what happens when you have at least 3 subchannels at any given time and bitrate-starve your main HD feed to ~9 Mbps.

WDJT is one of the worst looking CBS affiliates in the country.

I was watching some of the episodes of "Big Bang Theory" on TBS over the weekend. I was shocked that the title sequence wasn't a macroblocked mess over there. I was so used to it being completely unrecognizable on WDJT.

[REVM1M]

Thank god there are only one or two Packers game on CBS 58 and no Baseball. CBS 58 you are EMBARRASSMENT To Milwaukee & WI . Not even HD news, what a joke

[brewtownska]

WDJT must know they're going to field complaints on picture quality...but wouldn't it be a lot LESS calls if the SUBCHANNELS were the ones unwatchable, not their main channel?  I'd love to see a breakdown in viewers between main channel and subchannels in the course of a week.  I know when Brewers games are on WMLW most Saturdays, we don't even watch because the picture is SO HORRIBLE.

There has to be a way for them to send more bandwidth to the channel they expect more viewers for at any given time.  You'd think Packers games would be their highest priority, and then maybe the 7-9pm weekday slots.

They must charge advertisers a rate based on viewers & time, so you'd think the advertisers would want viewers to be able to see the ads CLEARLYy.  I'm thinking without the ADVERTISERS complaining, they must not care what VIEWERS think.

[Steve Mann]

I must chime in too. The Packer game looked horrid during any kind of fast motion. I watched Hawaii Five-O the other night too and it was literally almost unwatchable. It's crazy... Very poor use of spectrum for sure. Leave it to them to ruin a perfectly good technology.

[Rick_EE]

I would like there to be a legal standard for HD.  A bitrate spec or something.   There is no way we getting HD.

Honda should ask for their money back on their spots.  Channel 58 ruined them.

I tried watching the the game OTA and there was no difference with TWC.  Too bad everyone is too cheap to pay for an uncompressed signal from Channel 58 to TWC.

I refuse to watch this channel unless I have to.

[ArgMeMatey]

Honda should ask for their money back on their spots. .

I agree.  That is the only thing that would matter.

"If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer.  You're the product being sold."

WDJT has a sanctioned monopoly on CBS programming in this market.  Until that changes, what we think does not matter.  

If you want to do something about this, call David Hobbs and others and tell them their coop money is being wasted.

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[Jack 1000]

Well,

At least TWC seems to have fixed the on-going issues with CBS HD and ABC HD after about two years.  (I believe they increased bandwidth.)  Sadly, I think in recent years the trend has been quantity over quality as MORE sub-channels are forced into the pipeline.

Jack

[WITI6fan]

And they are pretty much all useless.

On the plus side, there was a promo for CBS 58 news done in HD. It's on its way.

They've been doing promos in HD ever since the master control upgrade a few years back...