The old CBC thread was getting long in the tooth and had started to ramble, so we've created this new thread.
We have a CBC technican who is kind enough to visit this forum. His name is Marc. He will attempt to answer any questions about CBC-HD. Marc has been extremely responsive in the previous thead and we appreciate his presence on this forum.
This thread is intended to discuss mostly technical issues, HD (and WS). Other comments questions regarding CBC-HD may, or may not get a response, or be split from this thread.
This thead is NOT intended for hockey discussions, since there's a separate thread for that.
Any CBC bashing posts will be deleted. Constructive criticism, comments and questions are always welcome.
The HD quality of yesterday's LA-Anaheim game was the best I've seen from CBC. No pixelization at all. Last year's playoffs were unwatchable at times with freezing and massive pixels everywhere. I'd like to think it's something to expect in the future but I'm afraid they probably rented a truck and gear in the UK that was simply better than what they use in North America.
What is your content provider jfplay (antenna, cable or satellite)? I suspect your problems during the playoffs were from poor reception and not from the original feed.
The online HD page will come to an end soon. Two and a half years have past and since the first permanent HD transmitter was put in service. HD is still growing, but it's no longer the new kid on the block. HD data will be merged into the rest of CBC.CA.
Does that mean the handy week-at-a-glance PDFs will no longer be available? If so, will the regular cbc.ca online schedule be updated to indicate widescreen shows? (It already does indicate HD shows.)
Some more info regarding RMR. As mentioned earlier, RMR has moved to a widescreen studio this season. Usually, this means 2.0 sound. RMR will have 5.1 sound.
As majority are widescreen now, then perhaps indicating the 4:3 would be simpler. You know, in the same way TV Guide stopped indicating which shows were Colour, and started just showing which were B&W.
I think that 'Widescreen' still needs to be indicated, as it is, along with HD content, far from being mainstream in Canada. Also, by indicating this more often and in more places, CBC would be promoting not only WS and HD, but itself and its advanced technical abilities (standing out among still a huge number of tv stations broadcasting only SD/analogue in the country).
As for the current CBC.ca tv listings, I think it is very user-unfriendly and looks outdated, also often has tech issues with server problems etc. Also, last time I checked, I noticed National is marked 'HD', along with few other things, but not all HD shows are still indicated.
I just wish they even copied the listings from french cbc, which looks much nicer. http://www.radio-canada.ca/gh/televisiongenerale/ghHoraires.asp
I watched some of Triple Sensation last night and I've got to say the PQ was really amazing....really great detail and colour saturation. The only problem was the FX they used during some edits that caused major but brief macroblocking.
I watched Torchwood from Fri @ 9. Captain Jack from Doctor Who is back with a select group fighting crime using alien technology. Most excellent PQ.
We are getting season one, there is a season 2 in the works. http://torchwoodtv.blogspot.com/
Yeah, watched it the other night. I enjoyed it very much. The whole feel of the program hit the right notes. Music and direction was great. I think it will be a challenge to come up with story lines without the time travel aspect though!
I watched the game. The wide-angle long-range camera, which shows 95% of the action, is upconverted/widescreen... no bleeping way is it HD. However, the field-level cameras, which show only the benches, and interviews with players, are HD. Talk about having your priorities backwards. Dear CBC, may I kindly suggest...
please take the upconverted/WS wide-angle camera and burn it in front of the American embassy
take one of the field-level HD cameras, and lug it up to the upper levels of the stadium, and use it as the wide-angle camera.
While the final scores generally left a lot to be desired, I concur with WarrenC12:
- Eskimo / Lions game was better than regular SD, so kudos for SD WS when HD isn't possible.
- Great to see the "late" HNIC game in HD! Definite thumbs up!
Sandwiched in there somewhere was Crosby beating the Leafs in HD (I can't complain about that one at all ).
All in all, an impressive amount of coverage. Thanks.
Anybody else have stuttering issues with the Eskimo/Lion game? In particular, I was getting stuttering on the wide field shots just prior to a play, but then when the camera began to zoom in just before the play started, they'd stop. Perhaps it was something to do with the conversion from SD to widescreen.
The fact that in Ottawa CBOT-DT on RF 25 has the Carrier Frequency set at 67250000 (witch is the frequency for channel 4) could this not create confusion for some tuners?
Thank you Marc.
By the way cboft is not set to zero either.
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