mdeatherage
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Not that it has any chance of making KFOR-DT management either smarter or more competent, but I used the feedback page on their Web site tonight to make it as clear as possible:
When they take shows out of HDTV and start showing them in a very poor, washed-out SD picture solely so they can show maps of severe weather that’s *outside* the KFOR-DT broadcast area, all while leaving digital channel 4-2 (KFOR’s all-weather digital channel) unchanged and with no live weather information, well, that’s it for me. I change the channel.
I’d rather watch anything else in HD or DVDs than watch bad SD for no reason. I told them this, and hope others will as well. Did anyone else turn off the game when KFOR-DT turned off the HDTV?
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tnrchrds
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I did.
How do we tell them? Does anyone have a phone number to their engineering dept to tell them to flip the switch?
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Dennis Whiteman
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I just got home, tuned in the game and wondered what the deal was. They don’t have a weather map on the screen during the game, which is very confusing. Then, the weather guy breaks in to tell us that all the watches have been canceled.
Why isn’t this game in HD on KFOR-DT?
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mdeatherage
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I said I’d check it every so often to see if they fixed it; I checked just now and found it in 16:9, but there was a lot of pixellation and it didn’t quite look like 1080i, but maybe something up-converted.
Not sure – I’ll watch it for a little bit now that it’s not such a crap picture. They’re back from commercial now, and I’m pretty sure the picture has less bandwidth than it did when the game started. I’m not sure what the deal is.
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okcshoe
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Unfortunately, even when they returned to their HD broadcast, the picture was a macroblocked mess. NBC is soooo far behind the other networks when it comes to PQ on their sports coverage…
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Dennis Whiteman
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I’m not sure you can blame NBC for the macroblocking. KFOR-DT has the oldest equipment in this market and IMHO the worst SD picture quality.
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mdeatherage
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Dennis, the picture seemed just fine to me until they dropped it out of HD to show us maps of potential hail somewhere near the Texas border.
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Dennis Whiteman
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Exactly. The only time I’ve really noticed poor picture quality in HD was during the 2004 Summer Olympics when they were mirroring their SD channel along with the SD weather channel and NBC’s HD coverage. It was just too much. I think I still have some recordings of that left over…
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