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From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Well, the OTA providers are doing it to the network feeds first, so I don't see focusing on the cable providers doing it to the OTA providers as the sole source of quality issues. The OTA providers also reencode to add bugs, weather/breaking news crawls, etc., and they don't always do a good job of that before feeding the signal to the statmuxer.
TTBOMK, no, the affils don't actually reencode the whole feed; there are boxes these days that can insert your bug without trashing the rest of the stream -- and I think their contract with the network *requires* them to run their primary streams as-had, though I can't produce a citation on that. Do you have a citation on this, Chris? I have a couple MythTV people on that list who work at network affils that I could ask. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274