: CBS NBC problems


peekaboo
2008-07-27, 01:34 PM
As of yesterday early evening and through to today (Sun 27 July) both CBS and NBC are both, I've noticed, having quality issues to a Rogers analogue cable subscriber I'm visiting in the Waterloo region. Specifically NBC is exhibiting frequent and very noticeable tiling that comes and goes every few seconds. This continues right through commercials as well. Interestingly the problem continued early this AM during a GLB subsim of NBC (GLB itself was fine) whereas during an A-ch subsim of NBC last nite, NBC looked the same as A-ch as one would expect.
With CBS the audio is out of sync during both shows and commercials. Also the video shows blocky chunks, similar to tiling but different, primarily in the center of the screen. Oddly this too persisted during a SUNTV subsim, even-though SUNTV's signal was fine in comparison.
I use an MMDS provider and notice tiling once in a while, primarily on TMN, but have been told repeatedly by RCI customers that they "never" have such issues. Anyone else notice these issues regardless of provider?
TIA

thegman
2008-07-27, 01:53 PM
Yep, its the same thing here in Brantford, I posted in the sports forum "assuming" it was a Global simsub fault, but CBS is still screwed up. Exactly like you said, audio is not synced, and its doing weird tiling things.

NBCs audio is fine here, video quality is choppy though, but I dont know if its just the trialthon video thats choppy.

peekaboo
2008-07-27, 02:06 PM
Thx thegman. Do you use Rogers analogue as well? Also did you notice this just this week-end only? NBC video was definitely FUBAR since yesterday early PM both during shows AND commercials.
TIA
Paul

ve3sy
2008-07-27, 02:52 PM
Same problem on NBC/A-Channel (sub) last eve in Kitchener with NO digital cable box. The originating CH11 Cable 9 channel seemed better though.

thegman
2008-07-27, 03:58 PM
The global simsub on CBS is now fine, so I dont know if that means CBS is fixed or not.

CBS News is fixed, so im guessing CBS is fixed

but NBC is broken, audio is way off

StanleySparker
2008-07-27, 10:42 PM
I noticed the same problems as well on NBC and CBS.

peekaboo
2008-07-30, 02:52 PM
Thx all for the replies. I'm guessing this was possibly limited to Rogers analogue subscribers only? FWIW When I returned home (North York) Sun pm both NBC and CBS (actual no subsim on Sun) were fine but I do NOT use Rogers analogue or digital.