[mythtv-users] Nasty artifacts in last night's Colbert Report?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Wed Jan 23 05:07:01 UTC 2008


Marc Sherman wrote:
> Did anyone else have really nasty mpeg artifacts and sound dropouts 
> recording last night's Colbert Report?
> 
> I'm hoping the problems were in the network feed (CTV in toronto), and 
> not a problem on my myth box that I need to start tracking down...

Weren't you folks getting heavy snow out there?  That can wreak havoc on
satellite feeds; it apparently absorbs RF quite well, especially if it
starts to collect in the dish.  When I was a college student in
Houghton, MI we used to have snow-related dropouts on our campus cable
system from time to time.



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