11-01-2020, 12:39 PM
(11-01-2020, 11:44 AM)Terry Wrote:It had crossed my mind that the adverts were locally inserted, I was in Nashville, Memphis & New Orleans when I noticed this. It was just before the digital switchover in the USA so possibly some older analogue equipment was still in use, & not being maintained much as it was due to be taken out of service.(10-01-2020, 11:19 PM)Richard_FM Wrote: One oddity I noticed when I was last in the USA in 2008 were that the picture quality during commercial breaks dropped quite a bit compared to the actual programming.
This probably wasn't helped by the hotel distribution system, but sometimes it looked like the adverts had been shot with the same film stock used for the Sweeney.
Could this have been served by a small local affiliate station who inserted local adverts using less than perfect equipment? The quality of some US TV could be dire.
