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Post by mattbanks on Sept 13, 2009 12:47:06 GMT -5
Been seeing this problem for a while now. All live HD sporting events on Fox stutter horribly, making the programs almost unwatchable. Happening on both my 8300HD and 8300HDC. Now that the Giants are going to be on Fox every week, this is a huge problem. I saw over on AVS Forum ( www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1163878&page=6) that a lot of people are having this issue as well. Anybody know what's going on? I'm sure calling Time Warner will get me nowhere as they'll just want to send someone out to my house and then tell me nothing is wrong. |
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Post by mattbanks on Sept 20, 2009 15:45:50 GMT -5
I emailed our local Fox station and heard back from their Chief Engineer: The “stuttering” problem that you are experiencing is occurring in Scientific-Atlanta HD set top boxes in use by many cable systems. There is something in the Fox live sports data stream that these boxes can’t handle, as the over the air broadcasts and cable ready TV sets do not experience these issues.
The issue is being worked by Fox and cable engineering people and we hope a solution will be available soon. |
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Post by shanedude on Sept 20, 2009 17:07:14 GMT -5
I wonder if this is related to the other issue FOX networks are having which is causing multiple recordings on both my stb and my Tivo? From what I have read on avs, fox's little commercial start/stop tone is causing this. It is rather annoying but I have grown use to having to jump to a 2nd or 3rd recording to finish a show.
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Post by Skaggs on Sept 28, 2009 6:40:41 GMT -5
I emailed our local Fox station and heard back from their Chief Engineer: The “stuttering” problem that you are experiencing is occurring in Scientific-Atlanta HD set top boxes in use by many cable systems. There is something in the Fox live sports data stream that these boxes can’t handle, as the over the air broadcasts and cable ready TV sets do not experience these issues.
The issue is being worked by Fox and cable engineering people and we hope a solution will be available soon. While watching the Giants vs. Bucs game Sunday at 1PM on my TiVo, I experienced video freezes and audio dropouts. I switched to OTA and experienced the same thing. Apparently, this is NOT a Sci-Atl cable box issue. |
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Post by adam on Sept 28, 2009 9:31:18 GMT -5
Yeah, this happened on Directv as well.
I've read on some forums that this has been happening on DTV for almost 3 years now and it is a problem between fox and directv most times but I'd assume this week they were having problems system-wide since it affected satellite, cable and OTA instead of just satellite.
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Post by Skaggs on Sept 28, 2009 9:35:08 GMT -5
I contacted WXXA's Chief Engineer this morning. Here's his response:
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Post by xzi on Sept 28, 2009 16:34:43 GMT -5
Yeah, this happened on Directv as well. I've read on some forums that this has been happening on DTV for almost 3 years now and it is a problem between fox and directv most times but I'd assume this week they were having problems system-wide since it affected satellite, cable and OTA instead of just satellite. DIRECTV most likely gets the HD feeds from OTA anyway. Since the problem was identical on OTA and DIRECTV this past weekend, I assume it's all the same thing. Previously, WXXA on DIRECTV was fine. Now, if you have a DIRECTV DVR and are experiencing "stuttering" issues, that may very well be the bigger "brrriiiipp" problem that everyone talks about on those. |
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Post by hurnik on Sept 28, 2009 20:38:46 GMT -5
Yeah, Hell's Kitchen was in 4x3 for maybe 2/3 of the 2 hour show and Fringe was totally hosed as well. It was like some little kid was there with a switch going back and forth between 4x3, and 16x9 and then the sound got messed up.
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Post by davidjr on Sept 28, 2009 22:58:22 GMT -5
Yeah, this happened on Directv as well. I've read on some forums that this has been happening on DTV for almost 3 years now and it is a problem between fox and directv most times but I'd assume this week they were having problems system-wide since it affected satellite, cable and OTA instead of just satellite. DIRECTV most likely gets the HD feeds from OTA anyway. Since the problem was identical on OTA and DIRECTV this past weekend, I assume it's all the same thing. Previously, WXXA on DIRECTV was fine. Now, if you have a DIRECTV DVR and are experiencing "stuttering" issues, that may very well be the bigger "brrriiiipp" problem that everyone talks about on those. DISH Network satellite had the exact same problem. Kept switching back and forth from sat to OTA with no improvement. Was getting a solid 100% signal strength on OTA so not a signal issue, figured it had to be a Fox problem. |
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Post by mattbanks on Sept 29, 2009 15:02:07 GMT -5
I emailed our local Fox station and heard back from their Chief Engineer: The “stuttering” problem that you are experiencing is occurring in Scientific-Atlanta HD set top boxes in use by many cable systems. There is something in the Fox live sports data stream that these boxes can’t handle, as the over the air broadcasts and cable ready TV sets do not experience these issues.
The issue is being worked by Fox and cable engineering people and we hope a solution will be available soon. While watching the Giants vs. Bucs game Sunday at 1PM on my TiVo, I experienced video freezes and audio dropouts. I switched to OTA and experienced the same thing. Apparently, this is NOT a Sci-Atl cable box issue. Actually, that's a separate issue. I've confirmed with Fox that the stuttering issue has been resolved. Fox changed the stream settings on the back end, so it's no longer causing frame drops with SA boxes. The drop outs and freezes is just another in a long string of problems with Fox. |
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Post by pmp on Sept 30, 2009 19:42:39 GMT -5
I'm having an eerily similar problem w/ tonight's Yankee game. Stuttering picture and sound, along with pixelation at various spots.
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Post by adam on Oct 4, 2009 13:54:54 GMT -5
The first half of the Giants game was perfect now it is awful stuttering. FOX STOP SCREWING AROUND WITH CRAP AND FIX THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL!
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Post by Skaggs on Oct 17, 2009 7:14:55 GMT -5
Happened again last night during the 1st game of the Yankees vs. Angels in the ALCS. Why can't FOX or WXXA figure this out? I was watching via my TiVo, so it wasn't a TWC cable box issue.
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Post by bruces on Oct 20, 2009 12:19:13 GMT -5
I recorded the Angels/Yankees game yesterday OTA with my DirecTV HR20-700.
There didn't seem to be any sound problems, so it may be a problem now with the feed to TW.
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