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motts
06-26-06, 05:00 PM
My goodness it looks aweful. I was watching Seinfeld and it was so grainy it was unbearable. It also looked like someone turned the sharpness to maximum. When I saw another Seinfeld episode on TBS, it looked so much better. The difference was night and day. Tell me this isn't the quality you guys are getting OTA as well. If not, I am going to look into a decent antenna.
garys
06-26-06, 08:50 PM
Don't make judgements of what HD should look like by watching upconverted sd programing.
motts
06-26-06, 09:00 PM
Don't make judgements of what HD should look like by watching upconverted sd programing.

The James Bond movies on Filmfest manage to look very decent, and they are a lot older than any Seinfeld episode. How do they manage to pull it off? Just because it's upconverted SD is no excuse. Also, the picture is of less quality than the other local HD's. This is most evident during the news.
garys
06-27-06, 05:15 AM
Mixing apples and oranges here. The Bond movies were upconverted by Voom and was broadcast in HD. The networks do not do anything to their sd programing, and was broadcast as sd and viewed by you through HD means. I find it easier on the eyes to view sd programing on the local networks on the sd channel.
motts
06-27-06, 11:29 AM
Mixing apples and oranges here. The Bond movies were upconverted by Voom and was broadcast in HD. The networks do not do anything to their sd programing, and was broadcast as sd and viewed by you through HD means. I find it easier on the eyes to view sd programing on the local networks on the sd channel.

Agreed, it is in fact easier to watch an SD channel for SD programming, as stated by my TBS example. I don't understand how the quality can degrade however if all they are doing is showing SD upconverted. I figured it wouldn't be as dramatic.
whatchel1
06-27-06, 08:50 PM
Anytime you watch an SD show that is being shown on an HD channel all the weaknesses of the original quality will show up as more detailed. As in the grain that you are talking about with the Seinfield TV show. It was shot a couple of decades ago. The quality of the show that old are going to be much less. The only way that these could be improved would be to go thru extensive reprocessing. I doubt tht the national distributor would put out the bucks to clean up a show that is meant as reruns for general viewing for sydication. It is also possible that the show that you are watching on this station has been copied from another tape that was recorded off satellite that may not have been that good looking to start with.