The only way I can get Speedchannel broadcasts is by Time Warner Digital Cable.
The quality of the broadcast (not the commentary and coverage) is very poor –
there were numerous digital artifacts and screen breakups. The same occured
with the F1 race last week.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Could it be just that my Time Warner digital is poor. This would apply only if
most others on analog and digital had good broadcasts.
Could it be that the Speedvision broadcast is poor overall? I did not notice
that anyone else complained about this.
Please comment on your broadcast quality that you all saw. If it was generally
good then I will complain to Warner cable.
Thank you,
Rick
31
Jan
SPEEDCHANNEL Broadcast quality – Poor for me
I have TW digital here in the LA area. The broadcast was fine for me.
No problems on Speedvision, but several other channels are unwatchable due
to the digital artifacts. Several calls to them have done no good.
You should call and complain and see what they can do. The more voices they
here the better.
"Stromer2" <strom…@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The only way I can get Speedchannel broadcasts is by Time Warner Digital
Cable.
> The quality of the broadcast (not the commentary and coverage) is very
poor –
> there were numerous digital artifacts and screen breakups. The same
occured
> with the F1 race last week.
> Has anyone else noticed this?
> Could it be just that my Time Warner digital is poor. This would apply
only if
> most others on analog and digital had good broadcasts.
> Could it be that the Speedvision broadcast is poor overall? I did not
notice
> that anyone else complained about this.
> Please comment on your broadcast quality that you all saw. If it was
generally
> good then I will complain to Warner cable.
> Thank you,
> Rick
"Stromer2" <strom…@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The only way I can get Speedchannel broadcasts is by Time Warner Digital
Cable.
> The quality of the broadcast (not the commentary and coverage) is very
poor –
> there were numerous digital artifacts and screen breakups. The same
occured
> with the F1 race last week.
> Has anyone else noticed this?
> Could it be just that my Time Warner digital is poor. This would apply
only if
> most others on analog and digital had good broadcasts.
> Could it be that the Speedvision broadcast is poor overall? I did not
notice
> that anyone else complained about this.
> Please comment on your broadcast quality that you all saw. If it was
generally
> good then I will complain to Warner cable.
> Thank you,
> Rick
You may need better quality cable and splitter from the point of entry to
your cable box. At one house I switched from analog to digital cable box
and after complaining a few times they came out an rewired the entire house
with newer cable with individual runs from the point of entry to each cable
box (3), and then told me if I have any more complinats they would have to
run a new wire from the point of entry to the telephone pole. I still had
problems ocasionally and chaging channels took forever – waiting for the
screen to refresh.
Finally, "Digital" only means they can control the bit and compression
rates. I have DirecTV at one house and digital cable at another and the
compression in use by both providers looks like shit sometimes on high speed
camera pans I kept one analog box and speedvision looked better on that
one. At my new house I can’t get speed on an anolog box – different
provider, different system.
-Bob Heathcote
"Bob Heathcote" <littler…@yahoo.com> writes:
>You may need better quality cable and splitter from the point of entry to
>your cable box. At one house I switched from analog to digital cable box
The original poster said he had digital cable. Speedvision is most likely
not going to be in the low-numbered, basic cable channels which are normal
analog NTSC, but in the higher numbered channels that are sent digitally
as MPEG-2. Installing better cable from the entry point to the decoder
isn’t going to help. Those compression artifacts he’s seeing are in the
picture sent by the cable company. If the picture he is receiving sucks,
it’s because the picture sucked when it left the cable TV company’s
MPEG-2 encoder.
-Jonathan j…@geocities.com
My Speed picture quality was excellent.
"Stromer2" <strom…@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The only way I can get Speedchannel broadcasts is by Time Warner Digital
Cable.
> The quality of the broadcast (not the commentary and coverage) is very
poor –
> there were numerous digital artifacts and screen breakups. The same
occured
> with the F1 race last week.
> Has anyone else noticed this?
strom…@aol.com (Stromer2) wrote in
news:20020310233951.02576.00000573@mb-mu.aol.com:
> The only way I can get Speedchannel broadcasts is by Time Warner
> Digital Cable.
> The quality of the broadcast (not the commentary and coverage) is
> very poor –
> there were numerous digital artifacts and screen breakups. The same
> occured with the F1 race last week.
> Has anyone else noticed this?
Not sure what part of the country you live in, but in central New York with
TW digital cable I have always had very bad artifacts on Speedvision and
this continues with Speed Channel. It was bad enough yesterday that I was
considering posting a message myself to see if anyone had the same problem.
Oddly enough this is the only channel that it is noticeable on. The digital
box is on the same line that my cable modem used to be on and the cable
guys were raving about how great the line was when they installed it.
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> Could it be just that my Time Warner digital is poor. This would
> apply only if most others on analog and digital had good broadcasts.
> Could it be that the Speedvision broadcast is poor overall? I did not
> notice that anyone else complained about this.
> Please comment on your broadcast quality that you all saw. If it was
> generally good then I will complain to Warner cable.
> Thank you,
> Rick
"Mark McCauley" <sm…@hawkpci.net> wrote in message
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> My Speed picture quality was excellent.
There were a couple of breakups on my end, but they looked to be related to
the original broadcast site. None of the usual digital blocks when it hangs
up.
Beaner
strom…@aol.com (Stromer2) wrote in message <news:20020310233951.02576.00000573@mb-mu.aol.com>…
> The only way I can get Speedchannel broadcasts is by Time Warner Digital Cable.
> The quality of the broadcast (not the commentary and coverage) is very poor –
> there were numerous digital artifacts and screen breakups. The same occured
> with the F1 race last week.
> Has anyone else noticed this?
> Could it be just that my Time Warner digital is poor. This would apply only if
> most others on analog and digital had good broadcasts.
> Could it be that the Speedvision broadcast is poor overall? I did not notice
> that anyone else complained about this.
> Please comment on your broadcast quality that you all saw. If it was generally
> good then I will complain to Warner cable.
> Thank you,
> Rick
Had flawless sound and picture on my DSS dish for all broadcast
sessions. That is, no dropouts, no static and no digital artifacts at
any time. It’s your cable provider(isn’t it always). Fire them and
get a dish.
Stromer2 wrote:
> Please comment on your broadcast quality that you all saw. If it was generally
> good then I will complain to Warner cable.
Was fine on DishTV.
Doug
"Stromer2" <strom…@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The only way I can get Speedchannel broadcasts is by Time Warner Digital
Cable.
> The quality of the broadcast (not the commentary and coverage) is very
poor –
> there were numerous digital artifacts and screen breakups. The same
occured
> with the F1 race last week.
> Has anyone else noticed this?
> Could it be just that my Time Warner digital is poor. This would apply
only if
> most others on analog and digital had good broadcasts.
> Could it be that the Speedvision broadcast is poor overall? I did not
notice
> that anyone else complained about this.
> Please comment on your broadcast quality that you all saw. If it was
generally
> good then I will complain to Warner cable.
I have Time Warner in central Ohio, and I had the same problem with the
race. I also have this problem occasionally while watching other digital
channels. I’ve seen the same problems on my friend’s Insight digital
before, and not on Speedchannel so it may be the cable system.
Excellent quality here in Livermore, CA with AT&T cable.
Rich
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Stromer2 wrote:
> The only way I can get Speedchannel broadcasts is by Time Warner Digital Cable.
> The quality of the broadcast (not the commentary and coverage) is very poor –
> there were numerous digital artifacts and screen breakups. The same occured
> with the F1 race last week.
> Has anyone else noticed this?
> Could it be just that my Time Warner digital is poor. This would apply only if
> most others on analog and digital had good broadcasts.
> Could it be that the Speedvision broadcast is poor overall? I did not notice
> that anyone else complained about this.
> Please comment on your broadcast quality that you all saw. If it was generally
> good then I will complain to Warner cable.
> Thank you,
> Rick