Picture Quality on Game Day

[JohnGalt]

Have you guys noticed that on game day the picture is pixelated. Its as if Dish has a lack of Satellites to handle bandwidth properly. Also is Dish Broadcasting NBC in 4k ?

 

[Tampa8]

You question is a little vague, but there is no such thing as needing enough satellites for signal quality. One Satellite, one transponder is enough for every person who has a line of site for that particular channel.
Dish does not broadcast locals in 4K.

 

[Bruce]

You question is a little vague, but there is no such thing as needing enough satellites for signal quality. One Satellite, one transponder is enough for every person who has a line of site for that particular channel.

But if they cram too many channels on that one transponder, does it affect picture quality?

Dish does not broadcast locals in 4K.

No one broadcasts locals in real 4K, even those ATSC 3.0 stations are not in 4K.

The only way to get real 4K Content from the Broadcast Channels is via the streaming services, for example, last season, a lot of CBS shows were in 4K on Paramount+.

I believe they are the only ones.

 

[tjboston5676]

They have engineers that determine bandwidth needs, and no they don't cram too many channels on to a transponder. If you are having pixelation issues you probably have low signal to begin with. With the many different transponders it is possible that your overall signal is low and you're right on the line of cutting in and out and some transponder have just enough signal that you don't see any issues at all then a few transponder even though only a few points lower, are low enough to start pixelating. Whatever channel you're watching games on would just happen to be on a low transponder while the rest of the channels you watch are just enough to not pixelate giving the illusion that it's only on Gane day when oin reality the entire dish needs adjusted.

Could also be a bad connection somewhere. But I would get a tech out to look at it.