"Lord of the Rings" on the WB - Audio NOT Sync'd ?

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It was about a quarter of a second off in Phoenix.

Was this a local problem ?

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Denny Crane <Denny_Crane@not.here> wrote (in part):

>It was about a quarter of a second off in Phoenix.
>
>Was this a local problem ?

I noticed it was off in Albany NY as well. With lip-sync problems I
never know if it's the national feed, the local station or my
receiver, except that changing channels or turning the rx on and off
sometimes fixes it. I've seen lip-sync problems with every digital rx
I've ever used: DirecTV (rarely), ATSC, DCII and DVB. I don't see why
they can't get this fixed.

I wonder where Phoenix gets its HD feed. There are East and West
feeds 3 hours apart, but I don't think there are in-between feeds. So
Phoenix stations must be delaying the Eastern feed and would see its
problems, while California would get a different feed. Are there any
readers that work at a Mountain Time station who can fill us in on how
that's handled?

There were other problems here. On Sunday the first several minutes
were in SD, letterboxed within the 4:3 frame (letterboxed and
pillarboxed; there ought to be a term for that. Pletterboxed?
Lillarboxed? No, wait, I have it: Litterboxed. Seems appropriate.
Remember, you heard it here first!). Same thing coming out of the
first commercial break. That's often a local station screw-up. I
don't think they monitor their HD feeds much.

The HD didn't seem as sharp as I've come to expect. Certainly no
better than a DVD played through component with anamorphic
enhancement. I recorded it, but it's not good enough to keep. Which
may have been part of the MPAA's evil plan. A DVD wouldn't show the
pixelation on fast-action scenes that I've come to expect from all OTA
HD broadcasts. For all the promotion this received, I'd have thought
they'd do a better job.

Del Mibbler <mibbler@nycap.rr.com>