NIN Austin City Limits show aired April 5, 2014

[Kyle]

I don't think that it's the master tape. I checked the video online for Survivalism and it was glitch free. I would have thought that they'd have used the same source for both. But I'm not a video guru.

But it was only CBH. I didn't think anything of it until I noticed it was during the performance of CBH and also during the clip of CBH at the intro of the show. But everything else was fine. It's a minor complaint. And CBH sounded great (with a cool surround effect in the song). It was just some weird pixelation. I'll have to double check if it was the exact same parts of the song between the actual performance and the intro.

[m15a]

But it was only CBH. I didn't think anything of it until I noticed it was during the performance of CBH and also during the clip of CBH at the intro of the show. But everything else was fine. It's a minor complaint. And CBH sounded great (with a cool surround effect in the song). It was just some weird pixelation. I'll have to double check if it was the exact same parts of the song between the actual performance and the intro.

Sorry if you already mentioned this and I missed it, but did you compare with the CBH video online on the PBS site or Vimeo?

[cynicmuse]

Sorry if you already mentioned this and I missed it, but did you compare with the CBH video online on the PBS site or Vimeo?

I checked PBS online. It's not there. Also, there are glitches in places other than CBH; CBH was just the most egregious. There's pixelation at 1:15 (girl in in a tank top on a bike) and 15:15 (Copy of A). I know that I'm being anal retentive about this... I just want the best quality that I can get.

[TheBang]

I checked PBS online. It's not there. Also, there are glitches in places other than CBH; CBH was just the most egregious. There's pixelation at 1:15 (girl in in a tank top on a bike) and 15:15 (Copy of A). I know that I'm being anal retentive about this... I just want the best quality that I can get.

So, I finally looked at this, and it's really disappointing. There are macroblocking artifacts everywhere. It's especially noticeable during fast movement scenes or strobe lights, which is why it's so apparent in CBH. You can even see it when Ilan's arm is moving too fast. Basically, the video stream is starved for bits and/or not encoded efficiently enough. This is probably an issue in the delivery of the content to the local station by PBS (I'm assuming this was over satellite). It's not in the master source, per se, but rather in what was encoded and delivered for broadcast. That's my theory anyway. My affiliate's broadcast is on Saturday, so we'll see if that's any better. Otherwise, the web rip might end up being the best source, because this macroblocking on the broadcast is out of control.

[Kyle]

Sorry if you already mentioned this and I missed it, but did you compare with the CBH video online on the PBS site or Vimeo?

No but to be honest , I actually forgot about it until someone else mentioned it. Like I said, it's not a huge deal and I don't want to make it bigger than it is. It was just something I noticed.