So... just chiming in to say, i too have noticed weirdness on the cable tv too... some channels are real bad... sometimes the picture freezes, or goes black, sometimes weird artifacts like mentioned before. I missed the last 10 minutes of mythbusters the other night :(
Jamie On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:37:40AM -0800, Tony Newman wrote: > Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:37:40 -0800 > From: Tony Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Offtopic - Comcast "Digital Simulcast" > (DS) image quality > > A few of the problems mentioned here might be due to "sun-out". It > started around the first of March, and is getting near the end. This > happens twice a year, and goes on for a few days. > > What happens is from the receive dish's perspective, the Sun is right > behind the satellite it's trying to receive. The electrical noise from > the Sun is stronger than the signal from the satellite and blocks the > signal. This only lasts a few minutes each day, during the week or so > that everything is aligned just right (or just wrong). The exact time > it happens depends on the position of the receive dish on the Earth's > surface, and the satellite's orbital position. For analog receivers, > the picture gets progressively noisy, goes completely to noise, and then > slowly clears. For a digital receiver, it may "pixelate" for a short > while, then blank out when the error rate goes higher than the decoder > can handle. > > Of course this doesn't explain any long term quality problems. Those > sound like the allowed bit rate for a channel is set a little too low. > > -- > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
