Voom and CBS-HD East Looking Better

[rdinkel]

Maybe my eyes are just getting older, but Voom and CBS-HD East all seemed to be looking pretty good tonight. Anyone else notice the difference?

 

[Reefer123]

I can't say about CBS since I don't get it, but all the Vooms still look the same to me. Personally if you compare any to the HDNets its not even in the same ballpark.

 

[Gary Murrell]

all the same still, resolution/bitrate wise

-Gary

 

[voripteth]

Maybe my eyes are just getting older, but Voom and CBS-HD East all seemed to be looking pretty good tonight. Anyone else notice the difference?

My fiancee and I were watching some Equator and DiscoveryHD and she commented on the picture not looking as crisp as it used to. I know that the Voom channels are HD-Lite. Did DiscoveryHD also get downrezed?

 

[BrianMis]

My fiancee and I were watching some Equator and DiscoveryHD and she commented on the picture not looking as crisp as it used to. I know that the Voom channels are HD-Lite. Did DiscoveryHD also get downrezed?

No DiscoveryHD is still at 1920x1080i, it just so happens that the program(s) you happened to flip onto were being upconverted from SD.

I don't think that DiscoveryHD is producing everything in HD as of yet. A small percentage of the programming is still being upconverted.

 

[Turboff]

I think that they're compressing Discovery more than they used to, because I also think that it's not looking too good lately.

Recently, I was watching an episode of the new Equator series on Discovery, and it looked bad. This surprised me since the Equator episodes are just about the newest stuff on Discovery at the moment.

 

[BrianMis]

I think that they're compressing Discovery more than they used to, because I also think that it's not looking too good lately.
Recently, I was watching an episode of the new Equator series on Discovery, and it looked bad. This surprised me since the Equator episodes are just about the newest stuff on Discovery at the moment.

Hmmmm.....I have not noticed any difference with the new Equator. It always looks really good.

 

[CU2000]

How do you know what resolution is being transmitted?

 

[BrianMis]

How do you know what resolution is being transmitted?

Check out this thread, it should give you the info your looking for.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?p=442267

 

[MarcS]

CBS - East didn't look near as good as my TimeWarner cable feed of WRAL Raleigh CBS as viewed through a MyHD mdp-130 card...too bad they don't have DD5.1 on the cable feed...

 

[BrianMis]

CBS - East didn't look near as good as my TimeWarner cable feed of WRAL Raleigh CBS as viewed through a MyHD mdp-130 card...too bad they don't have DD5.1 on the cable feed...

CBSHD East, is being down converted on Dish to 1440x1080i right now. I think this is only tempoary. So this would explain that.