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JacksonDevilDog

JacksonDevilDog

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I am watching the Sugar Bowl pregame on WDBD Fox 40 on Comcast in Jackson, MS. It was in HD during the pregame. They go to a commercial right before kickoff and it switches back to standard definition. Why doesn't the HD always stay on? Do they honestly have someone that flips a switch back and forth. It's 17'ing annoying.

Edited to say: Now it's back in HD. Maybe the 2nd quarter will be in technicolor.
 
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OEMDawg

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Can't speak for Fox, but in most cases, yes they do have a guy there that literally flips a switch. The WAPT gm posts on a HD board and he was mad when people posted to complain when they forgot to flip the switch last year. I think it was a golf or tennis tournament of some kind. I also seem to remember that he said something to the effect that purchasing a machine that automatically switches between SD and HD feeds was tens of thousands of dollars that they weren't willing to spend. As for the case of Fox, they have been horrible this year. There were several NFL games this season where the HD broadcast was never shown.
 
josebrown

josebrown

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I can vouch for that. Fox on Comcast HD pisses me off when it goes back and forth like that. I emailed the local CBS folks a month or so back about that and never got a reply. It was during a game when there were thunderstorms rolling through south of Jackson. They kept the weather crawl up there forever. While the weather crawl was on the screen there was no more HD. When they run anything apparently local the HD goes away, commercials, weather updates, anything local. Even though I have a larger than small tv when they do that **** it seems to take over the view.
 
JacksonDevilDog

JacksonDevilDog

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There can be a thunderstorm in Noxapater and they'll keep that damn graphic logo up there and screws the HD broadcast. That storm would affect about 15 people and 5 of them have televisions and I have to worry about a storm 2 hours from my house and it's moving northeast. These Jackson channels are clueless. They won't spend thousands to switch the HD accurately, but WJTV will spend 105 million bucks on equipment for Tony Mastro to let us know that the high tomorrow will be 68 with light winds.
 
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BrawnyDawg

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Right now they are reducing signal strenghts and still "tweeking" this new system. They say they are doing the signal reduction to save money. Heck, in Flora we can not get NBC or FOX HD to hold a signal since they started this.</p>
 
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