[patrickthickey]

Really bizarre watching Alias last night via the Boston ABC feed off ExpressVu.


First, the image was terrible at both 1080i and 720p - I had to crank the color setting unnaturally low and the reds were still glowing. Plus, the upper left hand of the image was plagued with, for lack of a scientific term, green blotches.


Horrible image. PLUS there were white sparkles.


Would someone kindly confirm they also saw stuff similar to this? CBS showed no such artifacting.


regards,


patrick

 

[Jay Suburb]

I'm also watching HD on Expressvu and I saw it during Alias, a green rectangle in the top left corner of the screen. It was especially visible during darker scenes, of which there were many. A similar green blob also plagued ABC's Once and Again a couple of weeks ago.

So far, I've only noticed the problem during ABC's dramas, not on its sitcoms or movie presentations, nor on any of the CBS programming.

 

[Wooderson]

Had little green blocks or blotches during some of Alias last night via OTA ABC in Cleveland. (Didn't notice any big ones though. )They were a little distracting, but not as much as Miss Garner. (or sadly I should say Mrs. Foley.)

 

[eiroc]

I noticed the following from the broadcast in LA:


-red spots/pixels flashing for a second all throughout the picture field (this is probably similar to the blocks/blotches mentioned in the previous post)


-the occasional green tint that flashes the whole picture (this was mentioned in a previous thread re: alias last week).


the 5.1 mix sounded great during the explosion scenes!

 

[jjesq]

I wonder if the on and off green tint problem is limited to Los Angeles. As I said in the other post, it bothers me so much that I rarely tune in an ABC HDTV broadcast. I would think in a market as big as LA, they could get their act together to fix this.

 

[Pete Putman]

No such problems that I saw from WPVI-64 in Philadelphia. A very clean, sharp and crisp HD transfer (much better than "Max Bickford" over on KYW-26), good audio, and some 'mosquito noise' on dark scenes (likely MPEG artifacts).


No green blobs or squares. Altogether, one of ABC's better 720p telecasts.


Pete

 

[SteveMcWilliams]

I've not seen any green blocks or tinting in Dallas on ABC, but last night's Alias did have the sparklies.