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NBC Audio Compression
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Tucson, AZ
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I was watching NBC tonight, and noticed that the audio on every show (My Name is Earl, The Office, 30 Rock) has been compressed using some sort of noticeably lossy compression. It is super annoying. Did anybody else notice this? I'd like to figure out if this is NBC in general, or just on the crappy local station (in Tucson, AZ). I'm noticing this on the ads, also, so I'm guessing that it's the local station.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Digital or analog? Their digital signal always seems pretty decent. Though I must admit I'm not much of a TV watcher.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Moderator  Join Date: Aug 2001
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Cable or OTA? It could very well be your local affiliate.
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Cox Cable. I guess they could be the problem also. I don't have an antenna anymore, so I can't test OTA vs. Cable.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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Likely your cable provider. Comcast was fine.
(Not that I have much faith in Comcast)
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8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
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We get the digital signal over the air and it seems fine.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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How could a DIGITAL audio signal be effected by the local affiliate's equipment ?
Wouldn't the deterioration in signal quality play out on both, the audio AND video signal ?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by turtle777 
How could a DIGITAL audio signal be effected by the local affiliate's equipment ?
Maybe they're converting the rates on the fly to save a bit of bandwidth. Easily done.
Originally Posted by turtle777
Wouldn't the deterioration in signal quality play out on both, the audio AND video signal ?
Maybe there is deterioration on both - the eye is much more easily fooled than the ear.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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