King of the Hill and broadcast colors

neb wrote on 4/29/2004, 8:02 AM
I was watching King of the Hill the other day and all the red (and only red) had static in it. Is this what happens when something falls outside the broadcast color boundaries or was something else going on (bad reception etc)

Just wondering if that was what I was seeing or if it was something else...i dont have any experience with broadcast stuf, so im just trying to get my mind around how broadcast colors work
ben

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richard-courtney wrote on 4/29/2004, 8:20 AM
Problem with the satellite delivery of the signal to your local station.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/29/2004, 8:41 AM
Yes. Disney/ABC satellite signels have that pretty commin (especially in their cartoons). What's wierd though is I thought Fox went completely digital in their signel. Of course if it's a syndicated episode (ie not sunday night) then it could be from a tape before Fox went digital.

neb wrote on 4/29/2004, 8:52 AM
it was on old one

so its not so much a color issue as a delivery signal issue...

so, say somebody tried to broadcast something that was outside the boadcast colors, what whould happen?

ben
Jsnkc wrote on 4/29/2004, 9:18 AM
I notice that all the time on Tech TV in my area, they whites always have static and black lines coming from them becasue they are so hot.
Erk wrote on 4/29/2004, 2:14 PM
>so, say somebody tried to broadcast something that was outside the boadcast colors, what whould happen?<

neb - I'm no expert, but I recall Spot posting on this some time ago and saying that (surprisingly to me) illegal video can mess with the audio track, among other ills. Spot said check out rinky-dinky local car commmercials as an example.

Greg
farss wrote on 4/29/2004, 3:02 PM
This is for sure. If the video levels are too high then the video part of the transmission can overlap the audio channels, nasty. Problem isn't helped by cheap TVs either.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/29/2004, 3:39 PM
Yup. The audio can be messed up, but normaly on a signel via satellite the colors just sparkle, like you saw.
But there are other things that can cause the sparkles: your dish being slightly off (by slight I mean a fraction of a degree), the cable, LNB, the actual satellite in orbit (one died last year so the porn stations got re-routed! :) They took the free porn preview off the air because they moved to more family friendly satellites. Sad because Buena Vista/Disney, porn, & NASA could always be depended on to have really stong signels & you could setup a dish with them. :) The video could be "hot" (ie levels to high), or off slightly on the frequiency (the audio & video in a analog transmission all are on certain freqiences, just like analog TV).

If that episode was dated before 2002, then it's a library version from when FOX was analog (UPN & WB are also digital only via satellite). However, ABC, CBS, & NBC are both, so you could even see sparlkes on those shows (or not!)

Of course your antenea could be messed up a little. :)