Abc Hd Audio Noisy

[noreaster]

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the audio on the ABC HD service on Channel 20 is noisy.

Last night Media Watch had a constant hissing audio with little beeps on scene changes. It was also evident on other programs.

I went to the SD service & neither audio transmission had this problem. It seems to be isolated to the HD channel.

This is on the Melbourne Transmission. I have noticed it on other occasions.

I tried listening on my computer DVB card but the speaker system is inadequate. I think it is still there.

[dvduser]

MW had it for a few seconds that's all - watched ABC20 all last night and no other problems

[MichaelCPE]

The ABC Channel 20 audio was faulty on Monday night. There was a little hiss all night.

About 5pm on Tuesday it was really noisy, and Channel 2 dobly was clean.

So I rang the ABC Reception Advice team on 1300 13 9994 and reported the problem.

I was called back about an hour later, and thanked for telling them about it, told that it was now fixed, and had been a national problem.

There is only one control room, and naturaly they spend most of their time listening to analogue 2 and digital 2 as this is the bulk of the audience. So sometimes they need to be told when 20 is faulty.

I have a very good system, and are fussy. But it does suprise me how few people notice audio faults.

Cheers,

Michael

['ct']

The ABC Channel 20 audio was faulty on Monday night. There was a little hiss all night.

About 5pm on Tuesday it was really noisy, and Channel 2 dobly was clean.

So I rang the ABC Reception Advice team on 1300 13 9994 and reported the problem.

I was called back about an hour later, and thanked for telling them about it, told that it was now fixed, and had been a national problem.

There is only one control room, and naturaly they spend most of their time listening to analogue 2 and digital 2 as this is the bulk of the audience. So sometimes they need to be told when 20 is faulty.

I have a very good system, and are fussy. But it does suprise me how few people notice audio faults.

Cheers,

Michael

Correct, there is one control room which is looking after 4 feeds, the main ABC Network feed, the NSW/Sydney feed, the Nationail network HD feed, and the state QLD feed. Of which, not one feed has off-air audio monitoring. All that is monitored mostly is line/control booth audio output at the 16:9 ARC stage for the main network SD service prior going to the encoder/mux. There is no off-air audio monitoring past the mux in the control room, only vision.

[ckent]

Does simple equipment exist, that lets you plug in a set of audio cables and alert you when one of them goes to dead audio?

CK.

[betty boop]

The ABC Channel 20 audio was faulty on Monday night. There was a little hiss all night.

About 5pm on Tuesday it was really noisy, and Channel 2 dobly was clean.

So I rang the ABC Reception Advice team on 1300 13 9994 and reported the problem.

I was called back about an hour later, and thanked for telling them about it, told that it was now fixed, and had been a national problem.

There is only one control room, and naturaly they spend most of their time listening to analogue 2 and digital 2 as this is the bulk of the audience. So sometimes they need to be told when 20 is faulty.

I have a very good system, and are fussy. But it does suprise me how few people notice audio faults.

Cheers,

Michael

good ot hear its something that spoilt the "HD " broadcast of the kylie concert they put on. good ot hear got fixed.