[mythtv-users] XvMC De-interlacing

[Brandon Beattie]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:13:46PM -0500, Brian Foddy wrote:
> On Monday 16 August 2004 11:59 am, Brandon Beattie wrote:
> 
> > I do have to ask those watching HD, is "Hey Tom! Wacha Watching?" getting
> > as anoying for you, or is just my local station that's playing that
> > Sony commercial every 5 minutes during the HD Olympic streams?
> >
> > --Brandon
> 
> You mean they run that commercial between 24 hours of solid
> opening ceremonies:)))
> 
> I think it must be the only commercial someone paid for...
> 
> Brian


I found out why it was 24x7 on the opening ceremonies.  After speaking
with the local NBC engineers, they claim NBC had promised complete and
full Olympic coverage to the main OTA network HD NBC stations.  CNBC
somehow (They gave me the impression it was some weight pushing) was
given the promise for some Olympic events.  MSNBC then said if CNBC got
some, they should, some more weight pushing and they had some Olympic
events they could broadcast, then Bravo jumped in, and Telemundo.  What
was left was shown on HD or OTA NBC stations.  All streams are
sent directory from Athens, not even through NBC's main offices back
east.  The HD feed is an 8 hour, 3 repeats a day, of the HD events
(There are 4 locations that support HD, unlike the 2002 Olympics because
they had to have equipment there for 3 months because of shipping and
security, and they couldn't part with more equipment in the states).
The OTA NTSC feed is almost a complete, but still slightly a subset of 
the HD feed.  

More confusion sets in as NBC didn't provide information to stations
about what was (really) going to be shown and when until friday at 
5:00pm est.  But up to a week before, I was told that the station was 
running "Exclusive and complete olympic coverage of events on our HD 
station" commercials up to a week before openening ceremonies.

Saying the NBC engineers here were a little upset is an understatement.
I personally wish I could see all the olympics, as I don't have cable.
But it looks like money was involved in the chaos again.  I'm personally
looking forward to my local station getting the right program data sent
up to Tribune Media who zap2it gets their data from, as it's all wrong
for HD.  

Hope this may help others figure out what is going on.

--Brandon