TCM interference

Ocassionally, my TCM picture quality has interferance (but not a thin
blue line).
As was already posted, it's probably a local issue with my cable
company.
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In article <1190912144.229258.99110.RemoveThis@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Tracy W. Tupman <tupman.1.RemoveThis@osu.edu> wrote:
>Has anyone else noticed a thin blue horizontal line crawling slowly
>from bottom to top on the TCM broadcast? It's not obnoxious, just
>occasionally distracting. I'm seeing it on two different sets, to it's
>not my television. Just curious...

Not seen anything like that - HOWEVER - in the last month or so
I've noticed audio problems on TCM - but many people many not have
noticed them.

It seems almost like they have DC on their audio circuits.

Every time the video source changes there is a low-level pop/click.

For example on the films in the evening when you go from Osborne
to the ratings clip [10 seconds long] there is a pop, then when it
goes from that to the TCM [when it's a TCM owned film] there is
another pop, and then when the film starts there is yet another
pop.

It happens every time the video source has changed.

Anyone else notice this?

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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Bill Vermillion wrote:

> ...in the last month or so
> I've noticed audio problems on TCM - but many people many not have
> noticed them.
>
> It seems almost like they have DC on their audio circuits.
>
> Every time the video source changes there is a low-level pop/click.
>
> For example on the films in the evening when you go from Osborne
> to the ratings clip [10 seconds long] there is a pop, then when it
> goes from that to the TCM [when it's a TCM owned film] there is
> another pop, and then when the film starts there is yet another
> pop.
>
> It happens every time the video source has changed.
>
> Anyone else notice this?

This isn't happening on the Dish Network satellite feed of TCM, at least
not noticeably as I receive it and record it on my computer. I pay
special attention to these short clips, as I remove them in iMovie
before sending a program to iDVD on the Mac. I prefer to have Robert
Osborne's intro fade to as much black as possible before the studio logo
comes up at the start of the film. So I play the intro until the guitar
riffs begin under the ratings info, then back off frame by frame --
leading me to believe that I would have heard the clicks you mention.

Perhaps your cable company has some crosstalk between its video and
audio circuits?

-Neil Midkiff
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In article <13fqritdmmuev5c DeleteThis @corp.supernews.com>,
Neil Midkiff <nmidkiff DeleteThis @earthlink.net> wrote:
>Bill Vermillion wrote:
>
>> ...in the last month or so
>> I've noticed audio problems on TCM - but many people many not have
>> noticed them.
>>
>> It seems almost like they have DC on their audio circuits.
>>
>> Every time the video source changes there is a low-level pop/click.
>>
>> For example on the films in the evening when you go from Osborne
>> to the ratings clip [10 seconds long] there is a pop, then when it
>> goes from that to the TCM [when it's a TCM owned film] there is
>> another pop, and then when the film starts there is yet another
>> pop.
>>
>> It happens every time the video source has changed.
>>
>> Anyone else notice this?
>
>This isn't happening on the Dish Network satellite feed of TCM, at least
>not noticeably as I receive it and record it on my computer. I pay
>special attention to these short clips, as I remove them in iMovie
>before sending a program to iDVD on the Mac. I prefer to have Robert
>Osborne's intro fade to as much black as possible before the studio logo
>comes up at the start of the film. So I play the intro until the guitar
>riffs begin under the ratings info, then back off frame by frame --
>leading me to believe that I would have heard the clicks you mention.
>
>Perhaps your cable company has some crosstalk between its video and
>audio circuits?
>
>-Neil Midkiff

I don't think that's it. It's a very low-level click/pop and it's
only happens when the video switches. Double check.

Since the video/audio come 'as a set' the local cable company
wouldn't have a thing to do with it.

Perhaps I'm more sensitive to it. I once figured I spent about
30,000 hours at audio consoles in what was then a state-of-the-art
facility that we built for $850,000 in 1977 money. That would be
about $5million today I guess.

Bill

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