New HD Channels Slow to Load

[jrlaw10]

Now that my diplexers are gone and the new HD channels come in, I have a question.

Anyone notice that it takes the new HD channels a few seconds to load, the picture freezes momentarily and then plays fine?

I never had this happen on the HD channels in the 70's and 90's.

Is this a resolution issue?

I'm running at native "off" and enabling 720 and 1080.
I have the HR20-700.

Thanks!

[B Newt]

I got the same with my hr20-100.

[Rakul]

I see that on both my HR20-100 and -700, I was guessing it was the BBC kicking in. That is purely a guess though.

[gizzorge]

I noticed this during the testing, but I think it's normal. When I compared it to the lag time on the existing HD channels, there really wasn't a difference. Could it possibly be due to more resolution info to process?

[dthreet]

Mine are a little slow on HR20-100. However about the same between anychannel w/ native off. If I turn Native on take alot longer and does the million colored pix thing. This could be on my tv becuase I am using HDMI w/ a Phillips 42" plasma model 42PF9631D/37. I also have an HR10 via HDMI does the same thing when I switch inputs to it, or goes pink.

[jasonblair]

It's the nature of MPEG4 encoding. The compression codec is more efficient, but the tradeoff is that it takes more processing time to encode and decode.

[Snoofie]

I've noticed the same thing and another weird thing is that I when I am watching a new HD channel, then switch to another channel, when I switch channels again, the screen flashes and momentarily I see an image of the new HD channel again. It is kind of like it flashes by what is on the other tuner when I change channels, but I have only noticed it since the new HD launched.