Weather’s moving in

Posted on January 26, 2005 by Gene

Here’s another annoyance with digital television: many of the stations here in DC are using the multicasting capabilities of DTV to deliver several channels at once. For instance, WRC-DT broadcasts one HD channel and one SD channel featuring 24 hour weather.
But what this means is that the bandwidth has been reduced for the HD channel, resulting in a severely pixellated, messed up picture when there is a moderate amount of movement — the opening titles of The West Wing have become a huge, blocky mess.
Maybe having a 24-hour weather channel, with constantly changing graphics, is not the most efficient use of that bandwidth. I suggest that NBC rethink their Weather Plus service and present more static images…