[mythtv-users] Semi-OT anyone recording New York OTA, and NBC 4.1
Tom Dexter
digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Tue May 29 23:47:14 UTC 2018
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:44 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ... Totally sucks.
>
> Old story (slightly modified for a public list):
> "you can't fit 10 pounds of crap in a 5-pound bag"
>
> NBCU is are sharing multiple "channels" on one
> frequency. Bitrate had to be compromised. It is
> possible ATSC 3.0 will allow some of the quality
> to return, but the FCC requirement to maintain
> ATSC 1.0 means that there are just various
> compromises that will have to be maintained.
>
> NBCU received (many many) millions to shutdown
> one of their broadcast channels in NYC in order to
> let the mobile operators expand their capacity.
> So did a couple of other broadcasters. This
> story is being repeated across the country in
> some large metropolitan markets, even if due
> to the FCC schedules, it may not have hit others
> yet.
>
> Arguably, NBCU did the right thing long term.
> Broadcast linear TV is dead, we just don't have
> the formal pronounce of time of death yet(*).
>
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>
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> (*) I am personally unhappy that WNBC, one
> of the broadcasters that was there in the
> very beginning (1928 for the experimental
> broadcasts) is gone, but such is progress.
Yea...I was posting about this on the NY OTA thread on avsforums and
someone pointed out that they're sharing that frequency with
Telemundo. Interestingly they seem to be giving more bandwidth to the
latter apparently.
I'm confused about your statement on WNBC being gone. The current NY
4.1 still uses the WNBC callsign. Do you mean prior to Comcast buyout?
Tom
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