title WebLog #535 Topic: 2008-04-13 06.34.22 matt: recent drops in DishHD audio and video quality
user matt
ip 64.142.12.187
vol 1

  Some weird artifacts, robot voices...

/more


  I'm not sure exactly when it started, but DishHD's audio quality has dropped recently. I first noticed when watching
/link http://www.hbo.com/intreatment/ In Treatment
on HBO (which I really liked). The main character's voice is in a lower register that would sometimes sound like a robot in a tunnel. I noticed a similar effect when watching
/link http://www.hd.net/danrather.html Dan Rather Reports
on HDnet during an interview. Later, I noticed that
/link http://www.altonbrown.com/ Good Eats
had similar weird artifacts in the center channel. Listening more closely, it sounds like the center channel is being waaayyyy overly compressed, but the left and right channels significantly less so.

There's also some extra noise going on in the video on some HD channels, like a pre-transcoding filter. I might be able to articulate it when I get my
/link http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TZ8544/104-0246700-0999944?ie=UTF8&tag=matthargettbl-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000TZ8544 new TV
.

Dear Dish Network, please fix. Falling quality is one of the reasons (unscrupulous billing practices being the other)I left DirecTV in the first place and recommended all my friends and family avoid it.


/remark You should end with a /discussion !
/discussion