Verizon FiOS TV → WNBC Strange Compression Artifacts

I have been noticing some weird compression issues, especially on static non moving objects, kind of like a flickering/shimmer effect with macroblocking. I watch and record the late night shows frequently and it wasn't this bad just last week.

For example, check out the artifacts on the blue wall, they're there for a few frames, then it resolves itself the next frame
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Fades to black can be pretty bad too.
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Got higher bitrate with the deletion of 4.2, but disappointing compression, like it's been put through an extra filter or something.

I know some people that have connections/information about 30 Rock's transmissions browse this forum, so figured I'd put this out there

I really hope this doesn't mean Verizon has started transcoding signals.

i dont see anything strange. i'm on staten island. where are you rosscan?

I'm from Staten Island as well. Here are some more examples
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It's pretty bad consistently on every program, same pattern of random areas of the screen (mostly solid colors or backgrounds) getting pixely then resolving back to looking OK. Here are a few quick ones I grabbed from 30 Rock tonight, with the ending logos being the most glaring

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Meanwhile the overall bitrate is peaking at 14mbps. Was getting great quality before the New Year when it was peaking around 12mbps. True head scratcher

It's not FiOS re compressing the feed. WNBC OTA has the same problem.
It's been around for about two years.
I first noticed it on any video that had the sky in it on Sunday Night Football.
It usually happens when there is a solid color at the top of the video.
It's a bunch of digital artifacts that keep changing every second.

I'll try to record and post a video sample of it.

Really? I've been recording consistently for over a year now and I'm just noticing it's specifically harsh in this week's programming. Maybe it has just gotten worse and more obvious despite the small increase in bitrate?

Here's an example of the artifacts on WNBC 4.1.
They appear at the top of the frame on the sky and logo in the first image and go away in the second image.

Call me crazy, but I see no difference between those two pictures.

Me either

The forum software remove the link to the full size files.

If you compare the two at full size the second image should be cleaner for the top half of the frame.
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WNBC's engineers definitely fucked up the settings on their MPEG-2 encoder with the bitrate increase. It should be looking better, not worse.

Verizon isn't doing anything to the feed.

Yes exactly, just went through my Today show recording from this morning and some panning sections and scene changes are truly horrendous. Really weird since everything was fine last week with the bitrate increase. Hope someone gets on it

»www.nbcnewyork.com/contact-us/

I recommend submitting screenshots here.

What we really need to do is find an engineer @ WNBC.

I've noticed as of this week the change in camera shots is not clean on WNBC and that's when the extra artifacts are appearing.
It takes a half second to second for the video to be clear again.
You will notice it when they cut back to Al from the local weather update.

Thanks for that feedback link, got a delivery failure message though so I sent one to programming as well

More horrible shots, Golden Globes.

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