We got WVEC in Hi-Def not too long ago and this has been happening with Wheel: Sometimes it is in Hi-Def and sometimes it isn't. This even happens with the same show. Has anybody else had this problem?

What do you mean by "with the same show"? Same episode?

I wouldn't swear to it, but I'm guessing that he's meaning the episode will be broadcasting in HD, then suddenly switch to SD, and occasionally back. Haven't seen that one very much - I only remember once, right when Letterman first went HD, in a couple of those first episodes the show would come back from commercial in SD, then suddenly switch back to HD midway through a segment.

Interesting coincidence...

Let me talk to someone in master control...I'll see if they can tell me anything.

ETA: More or less, we're still pretty new to the HD stuff, I think we just offered an HD station within the last month or so. The glitches are for the most part because we haven't fully upgraded everything.

Also, there seemed to be a glitch tonight, from what I was told, there was a problem in the third segment, so they edited in the spot from the standard Wheel tape.

/confused yet?

Would Master have to switch over from feeding an HD signal during, say, commercial breaks? If so, they could forget to switch back.

I know I've seen situations where NBC forgot to switch from SD to HD and as a result the first few minutes of a hockey game that was supposed to be HD, wasn't.

At our group of stations, we are still tinkering and fine tuning the HD signal, which occasionally has put audio and video out of sync on both the HD & SD signals, or at least that's what one of our engineers said after I asked them about the out of sync times.

Of course, all these problems will be fixed by Feb 19, 2009 when everybody is required to switch to HD, and everybody has their convertor boxes in place and everybody in the US will be happy and joyous on that day...so says the Federal Government. (snort...giggle...chortle).

I think you're correct...I've been watching "Jeopardy!" in HD on my computer on occasion for the last couple of months, and a handful of times, I've seen KABC's broadcast come back from commercials in SD and then "jump" to HD after a second or two.



Everybody is required to switch to digital. They are perfectly free to broadcast in HD, or in SD, or in a 200-line black-and-white format previously used only to broadcast a rotating Felix the Cat figurine...just as long as they do it digitally.