Patriots v. Steelers

[LuZZo]

Anyone else experience breakups every couple minutes for much of the game? CBS HD via BHN in North Pinellas.

[Dknow]

You mean besides my Pats getting their streak broken up? Yes actually. There were just a few split seconds of network pixelation that probably totaled less than 2 seconds for the whole game. I watch OTA and had a signal strength of 92% steady throughout the blow out.

[Dknow]

Well, 3 months later I can claim sweet revenge! GO PATS! This millenium so far has been a native-New Englander's sports fan's DREAM COME TRUE!

[LuZZo]

Haha, they played very well and deserved to win - I just hope they beat the damn Eagles.

Incidentally I didn't experience any breakups and the PQ and sound where top notch.

[Dknow]

Luzzo,
I noticed that too....the PQ seemed to be much better than normal CBS Sunday NFL HD PQ. I wonder if that points to them compressing the signal during the regular season for mulitple games. I noticed almost no digital artifacts at all. During the regular season you would see those artifacts quite evidently around the movement at the line of scrimmage from the upper-level shot.

[LuZZo]

Luzzo,
I noticed that too....the PQ seemed to be much better than normal CBS Sunday NFL HD PQ. I wonder if that points to them compressing the signal during the regular season for mulitple games. I noticed almost no digital artifacts at all. During the regular season you would see those artifacts quite evidently around the movement at the line of scrimmage from the upper-level shot.

I concur regarding the signal compression for multiple games. I recall a couple of times during the regular season that CBS would delay flipping the national switch for the 4 pm HD games if two of the 1 pm HD games had not finished. It was almost as though they were only capable/willing to have a fixed amount HD signals being sent out at one time.


In addition they probably used all of their top end equipment - although I don't know specifics it appeared that they fewer SD shots up converted.

[bdraw]

Yeah CBS transmits their HD streams to their affiliats at ~45Mbps, so they only have enough bandwidth via Sat to send two streams, I hope this is fixed next year.

Fox on the other hand send their games at ~15Mbps, so they have room for 6, they both seem to have the same bandwith in repecet to satellites. Fox also uses satistical multiplexing to fit all the streams on the two birds. Some believe this is why the distance shots look so much worse on Fox, while the close ups still look great.