| reply to Millenniumle
Re: Paying to watch commercials... Every station is NOT HD, only the main feed is HD. If you're talking about our PBS affiliate, channel 17 is WNED-TV Analog, 17.1 is WNED-DT in HD, 17.2 is WNED-DT in SD and 17.3 is PBS Think Bright and that is SD. I would cringe to see what two HD channels sharing the same space would look like, hell I wouldn't even call that HD, they'd be bit starved so bad. I'd call it pure garbage.
1 ATSC channel is 19.4 Mbps, that is adequate space for one and only one HD channel with zero subchannels. But the stupid notion that more is better has plagued OTA broadcasters and they reduce the bit rate so they can fit more subchannels into that 19.4Mb space. The PBS affiliate in Rochester, WXXI is using all four subchannels, but they send a direct uncompressed feed to Time Warner, and while I have never seen it OTA, a lot of people say that PBS HD on Time Warner blows away PBS OTA in Rochester. I have seen WXXI in HD on cable using my TVs QAM tuner and there is no comparison, WXXI HD kills WNED HD six way to Sunday. Not that it matters to me as I'd rather watch paint dry then watch PBS, but still.
WNED-DT in HD used to broadcast in 1080i, it is now 720p, I can't imagine that it's broadcasting at much over 9 or 10Mbps. Nothing like bit starving you HD content by half thanks to stupid sub channels. I am so glad channel 4 doesn't do multicasting, CBS is by far my most watched network and it looks great.
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