Not true, Mark.If a broadcaster, or cable provider fouls up a commercial, they don't get paid. People are paid to watch, just to catch mistakes. Then the provider has to do a make up, or not get paid at all.
Commercials are NOT just like the program.AFD is a new game, and no one is supporting it yet. There are existing ways to denote a change in the program stream.
RichNB I've done some research, there are bad cheap set tops. They seem to be the major cause of lip synch issues. The major broadcasters have done a lot better in the past year or so.
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As far as a broadcaster is concerned, a commercial (unless it has some change in AFD or dialnorm comparable to a scene change in a program) is just more of the program stream. It is continuous audio and video into the encoders.TTFN, Mark Tom Barry wrote:---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Mark - I thought there were some sort of discontinuity flags in the digital audio at the start of each new section of material which could cause a reset/recalc of time stamps. Is this not true? - Tom Mark Schubin wrote:As far as the receiver is concerned, the commercials are just a continuation of the programming.TTFN, Mark dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx wrote:I, too, have noticed out-of-sync commercials but not nearly as frequent as regular programming. Could it be that since commercials are usually 30 seconds or less that they have less time to get out-of-sync than the longer program lengths?---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Dan ------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:29:21 -0400 From: Mark Schubin <TVMark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [opendtv] Re: ATSC and Lip Sync Richard C. Ramsden wrote:BUT! have you noticed that the commercials are never out of lip sync?No, I have not. I've seen many out-of-sync commercials. But, if I quickly change channels and return, they come back into sync (as do the program segments). TTFN, Mark----------------------------------------------------------------------You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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