US Open tennis HDTV
 

Well, that's my luck. Last year, CBS broadcast 40 hours of HDTV US
Open tennis. This year, now that I have an OTA tuner, I can't find
word one from CBS regarding HDTV coverage of this event. Indeed, it
appears that exclusive HDTV rights have been bought by the Bravo-HD
satellite network.

Crap. Am I wrong?

I haven't seen any CBS comments, but USA-BRAVO/HD showed up at channel 74 on
DirecTV. I saw no warning or promo for it, but there were some rumors in
AVSforum that it was going to happen.

The quality was good....I need to spend some more time looking at the SD vs
HD to see if I like tennis in HD. I did think the ball was easier to follow.
I'm not sure, but there may have been a delay in the audio...and it is quite
disconcerting to not hear the racquet strike the ball when you are watching.

One thing it did get me to do was reconverge my TV. The bright white lines
on the green court showed some problems, so I took about 15 minutes to
manually converge ...and things cleaned up quite nicely.

Kudos to DirecTV for providing the HD content.

....hasan, N0AN
"dizzy" wrote in message
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Well, that's my luck. Last year, CBS broadcast 40 hours of HDTV US
Open tennis. This year, now that I have an OTA tuner, I can't find
word one from CBS regarding HDTV coverage of this event. Indeed, it
appears that exclusive HDTV rights have been bought by the Bravo-HD
satellite network.

Crap. Am I wrong?

All HD listings can be found here. Sat and Sun coverage of the US Open on
CBS in in HD.
http://www.titantv.com


"dizzy" wrote in message
...

Well, that's my luck. Last year, CBS broadcast 40 hours of HDTV US
Open tennis. This year, now that I have an OTA tuner, I can't find
word one from CBS regarding HDTV coverage of this event. Indeed, it
appears that exclusive HDTV rights have been bought by the Bravo-HD
satellite network.

Crap. Am I wrong?

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:51:14 GMT, "CCBrew" wrote:

All HD listings can be found here. Sat and Sun coverage of the US Open on
CBS in in HD.
http://www.titantv.com

I signed-up and tried it, and it indicated nothing of the kind, as far
as HDTV is concerned. I know I get the local CBS affiliate in HDTV,
too.

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:00:33 -0500, wrote:

Yippity Doo
I subscribe to direct tvHD and on channel74 i have Bravo HD a new
channel that wasn't there yesterday and the tennis us open was on.

F you. And I mean that in the nicest way.

Is this a permanent thing

Do you mean "is this a permanent thing, scumbag businessmen buying-up
key events to get you to subscribe to their services year-around"?

I'm afraid so.

Go to the grids on titanTV.com, change the day to Sat or Sun, CBS US Open
has a red "HD" in the box. Or go to HDTV update, change the day to Sat or
Sun, the listing for CBS shows "US OPEN early rounds"

--
Mike Lanzarotta
Crown City Brewery
ccbrew at sbcglobal dot net
"dizzy" wrote in message
...

Well, that's my luck. Last year, CBS broadcast 40 hours of HDTV US
Open tennis. This year, now that I have an OTA tuner, I can't find
word one from CBS regarding HDTV coverage of this event. Indeed, it
appears that exclusive HDTV rights have been bought by the Bravo-HD
satellite network.

Crap. Am I wrong?

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:46:20 GMT, "CCBrew" wrote:

Go to the grids on titanTV.com, change the day to Sat or Sun, CBS US Open
has a red "HD" in the box. Or go to HDTV update, change the day to Sat or
Sun, the listing for CBS shows "US OPEN early rounds"

Okay I looked again, and you're right about Saturday 9/4, it does
indeed show HD for the early round coverage. However, looking at
Sunday 9/5 coverage "HD" is NOT there. And worst of all, the
Semifinals and finals 9/11 and 9/12 do not show "HD"!

Now, that wouldn't make much sense, to show early rounds in HD but not
the finals. Just an oversight? Pretty gross oversight, me thinks...

From ILOVEHDTV.COM (HDTV Magazine):
NEW YORK, Sept 1, 2004– CBS Sports’ entire live broadcast of the 2004
U.S. Open Tennis Championships -- Saturday, Sept. 4 through Labor Day
Monday, September 6, and again Friday, September 10 through Sunday,
September 12 -- will be simulcast in High Definition Television, the
Network announced today. While this marks the fifth consecutive year
that CBS has simulcast its coverage of the U.S. Open in HDTV, this is
the third year the Network will expand its HDTV broadcasts to all six
days of its tournament coverage. In addition, this is the third year
that the action on the Louis Armstrong Stadium’s Court 2 will be in HD
along with the traditional coverage of Center Court in Arthur Ashe
Stadium. Once again, a highlight of the broadcast will be the prime time
women’s final on Saturday evening, September 11.

In all, CBS will broadcast nearly 40 hours of U.S. Open coverage in
HDTV. The broadcast will be a single production so that viewers at home,
whether watching in High or Standard Definition, will see the same
camera angles and hear the same action. The coverage will be produced
using the highest form of Digital Television (DTV), featuring 1,080
lines of resolution (or 2.0 million picture elements). This is the same
format CBS presently uses for all its primetime and daytime High
Definition programming.

Enjoy!

Dave - N2LAK

dizzy wrote:
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:46:20 GMT, "CCBrew" wrote:


Go to the grids on titanTV.com, change the day to Sat or Sun, CBS US Open
has a red "HD" in the box. Or go to HDTV update, change the day to Sat or
Sun, the listing for CBS shows "US OPEN early rounds"


Okay I looked again, and you're right about Saturday 9/4, it does
indeed show HD for the early round coverage. However, looking at
Sunday 9/5 coverage "HD" is NOT there. And worst of all, the
Semifinals and finals 9/11 and 9/12 do not show "HD"!

Now, that wouldn't make much sense, to show early rounds in HD but not
the finals. Just an oversight? Pretty gross oversight, me thinks...

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 01:20:35 GMT, Dave Hines
wrote:

From ILOVEHDTV.COM (HDTV Magazine):
NEW YORK, Sept 1, 2004– CBS Sports’ entire live broadcast of the 2004
U.S. Open Tennis Championships -- Saturday, Sept. 4 through Labor Day
Monday, September 6, and again Friday, September 10 through Sunday,
September 12 -- will be simulcast in High Definition Television, the
Network announced today. While this marks the fifth consecutive year
that CBS has simulcast its coverage of the U.S. Open in HDTV, this is
the third year the Network will expand its HDTV broadcasts to all six
days of its tournament coverage. In addition, this is the third year
that the action on the Louis Armstrong Stadium’s Court 2 will be in HD
along with the traditional coverage of Center Court in Arthur Ashe
Stadium. Once again, a highlight of the broadcast will be the prime time
women’s final on Saturday evening, September 11.

In all, CBS will broadcast nearly 40 hours of U.S. Open coverage in
HDTV. The broadcast will be a single production so that viewers at home,
whether watching in High or Standard Definition, will see the same
camera angles and hear the same action. The coverage will be produced
using the highest form of Digital Television (DTV), featuring 1,080
lines of resolution (or 2.0 million picture elements). This is the same
format CBS presently uses for all its primetime and daytime High
Definition programming.

Enjoy!

Dave - N2LAK

Thanks for the definitive answer!

This is going to be so cool!