Hmm, FCC tells stations to start using their TV airwaves or lose their digital licenses. So, my two PBS stations simply take the analog transmission and feed it onto the digital carriers. Nice fuzzy analog boxed transmission brought to you digitally. Then, PBS is not considered as a local in HD on DirecTV, which I can see the point in not doing as its worthless in quality (makes TBS stretch-o-vision look good).
PBS has not ground to stand on, and especially no laurels to rest upon.
You must live in a place where the local PBS affiliate sucks. In Kansas City, we have four SD sub channels during the day all in clear 480i. After 6PM, we have one 480i that is a mirror of the analog channel and we have a PBS HD channel. The quality is great. I have watched several programs in HD and they are top notch in quality.
Huh. I get KQED, which at one time was the premiere HD station (not just premiere PBS HD station) in the country! And we have the same setup, and it's a disaster. The first SD channel is okay, the other ones are way overcompressed. If the camera moves, the image breaks into blocks until it is still for a little bit again.
5 SD channels don't work very well on one 6MHz (14-15mbit) transmitter.
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GhostDoggy @ Mar 5th 2008 5:36AM
Hmm, FCC tells stations to start using their TV airwaves or lose their digital licenses. So, my two PBS stations simply take the analog transmission and feed it onto the digital carriers. Nice fuzzy analog boxed transmission brought to you digitally. Then, PBS is not considered as a local in HD on DirecTV, which I can see the point in not doing as its worthless in quality (makes TBS stretch-o-vision look good).
PBS has not ground to stand on, and especially no laurels to rest upon.
Siva @ Mar 5th 2008 11:37AM
You must live in a place where the local PBS affiliate sucks. In Kansas City, we have four SD sub channels during the day all in clear 480i. After 6PM, we have one 480i that is a mirror of the analog channel and we have a PBS HD channel. The quality is great. I have watched several programs in HD and they are top notch in quality.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Mar 5th 2008 11:50AM
Huh. I get KQED, which at one time was the premiere HD station (not just premiere PBS HD station) in the country! And we have the same setup, and it's a disaster. The first SD channel is okay, the other ones are way overcompressed. If the camera moves, the image breaks into blocks until it is still for a little bit again.
5 SD channels don't work very well on one 6MHz (14-15mbit) transmitter.