Unless something has changed in the last couple years, their legal agreement with the broadcast station is to carry their signal bit-for-bit. The same bits that are broadcast OTA would be the same ones that get sent through the Comcast network. There is no compression or re-encoding going on.YpsiGuy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 2:44 pmComcrap is compressing the living snot outta their TV channels. Their goal is to become a residential/business internet provider and cease to be a cable TV company. Their TV side shows it.km1125 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 1:32 pmJust curious what you see as a difference in the picture between the OTA signal and the Comcast signal?Tman wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 4:16 amUnlike the current standard, ATSC 3.0 makes use of both over-the-air signals and your in-home broadband to deliver an experience closer to cable or satellite. I don't see the big deal about ATSC 3.0 . I have a better picture now with the current standard then I ever recieved from Comcast .
However, since they have a direct fiber link to most of the broadcast stations, they could actually carry a BETTER signal than what is broadcast (but they don't). They do actually carry a different signal though, and that is due to commercial insertions. There's a different set of commercials that are aired on the Comcast-carried version than the version that's broadcast OTA. If the STATION elected to do something different to the signal they send to Comcast, that's their prerogative, but it would not be in their best interest to send any kind of degraded signal, as that is the mechanism over half of their viewers see their product.