Football tonight on yournew HD Tv set?

Agamemnon wrote:

"Peter Hayes" wrote in message
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David wrote:

In the Retail Park tonight and a couple of the HD ready TVs had the
football
on, what horrible pictures !
All the others had other programes on and looked allmost OK.
Of course none of the sets would be getting HD transmissions but what
puzzled me is that the football would orginate in HD and be transmitted
normally to these HD ready sets, why did these sets handle it so badly?
Was the football a bad picture on your new HD ready TV set?

I thought the BBC's Freeview pictures of the Germany game were the best
I've ever seen on DVB-T. Not HD, I know, but nevertheless excellent.

What ?

The pictures were complete and utter ****. They were totally blurred
just like everything the BBC takes from foreign broadcasters and you
couldn't see the features on players faces.


Looked pretty good to me on a 32" analogue LCD and freeview ...

Rob

Mark Carver wrote:

superbike999 wrote:

suppose we should be thankful that ITV isn't in their usual 4.3 aspect ratio
when broadcasting football from Europe.

Just like the Beeb if there is a decent quality 16:9 feed available from the
host broadcaster, ITV use it.

That's what ITV told me when I queried their Grand Prix 4:3 coverage.

So presumably Silvertone tomorrow will be 16:9.

What surprises me is that even the "prestigious" Monaco GP was in 4:3.

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Peter

Mark Carver wrote:

Peter Hayes wrote:
Mark Carver wrote:

Just like the Beeb if there is a decent quality 16:9 feed available from the
host broadcaster, ITV use it.


That's what ITV told me when I queried their Grand Prix 4:3 coverage.

So presumably Silvertone tomorrow will be 16:9.

Probably not. ITV will not be the host broadcasters, F1-TV are.

Ah, good point, I forgot that...

What surprises me is that even the "prestigious" Monaco GP was in 4:3.

That's right, F1-TV are host broadcaster, irrespective of country hosting the
race.


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Peter

"Agamemnon" wrote in message
...

"Peter Hayes" wrote in message
news:1hgon0y.j906p21ewni60N%[email protected] com...
David wrote:

In the Retail Park tonight and a couple of the HD ready TVs had the
football
on, what horrible pictures !
All the others had other programes on and looked allmost OK.
Of course none of the sets would be getting HD transmissions but what
puzzled me is that the football would orginate in HD and be transmitted
normally to these HD ready sets, why did these sets handle it so badly?
Was the football a bad picture on your new HD ready TV set?

I thought the BBC's Freeview pictures of the Germany game were the best
I've ever seen on DVB-T. Not HD, I know, but nevertheless excellent.

What ?

The pictures were complete and utter ****. They were totally blurred just
like everything the BBC takes from foreign broadcasters and you couldn't
see the features on players faces.

They where as good as SKY's Premiership footy, and that's saying something
for the BBC. Even ITV's evening match didn't seem as compressed as normal.

If you want to see it in it's low bandwith glory watch UKGold2!

In message , Peter
Hayes writes
Mark Carver wrote:

superbike999 wrote:

suppose we should be thankful that ITV isn't in their usual 4.3
aspect ratio
when broadcasting football from Europe.

Just like the Beeb if there is a decent quality 16:9 feed available from the
host broadcaster, ITV use it.

That's what ITV told me when I queried their Grand Prix 4:3 coverage.

So presumably Silvertone tomorrow will be 16:9.

Silvertone rather behind the times.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7420225616

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Ian

I thought the picture quality on Freeview good and no more. My one complaint
is that most of the time you felt like you were sat in the back row of the
upper stand. The only other angle was close up. Not enough middle distance
used. I noticed this in yesterday's games too. In the words of one famous
card advert 'ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM'.

"Rod L." wrote in message
...
I thought the picture quality on Freeview good and no more. My one
complaint is that most of the time you felt like you were sat in the back
row of the upper stand. The only other angle was close up. Not enough
middle distance used. I noticed this in yesterday's games too. In the words
of one famous card advert 'ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM'.

oooops CAR not card.

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:05:36 +0100, "Mike GW8IJT"
wrote:

"David" wrote in message
...
In the Retail Park tonight and a couple of the HD ready TVs had the
football on, what horrible pictures !
All the others had other programes on and looked allmost OK.
Of course none of the sets would be getting HD transmissions but what
puzzled me is that the football would orginate in HD and be transmitted
normally to these HD ready sets, why did these sets handle it so badly?
Was the football a bad picture on your new HD ready TV set?

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Regards
David

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Fortunately there are plenty of channels NOT showing football.
Regards Mike.


And if the few bits of that England V whoever 'game' I saw whilst
mucking about with STB's earlier were anything to go by, the
'highlights' wouldn't take up more than a few kB on any DVR .. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

In article ,
Rod L. wrote:
I thought the picture quality on Freeview good and no more. My one
complaint is that most of the time you felt like you were sat in the
back row of the upper stand. The only other angle was close up. Not
enough middle distance used. I noticed this in yesterday's games too. In
the words of one famous card advert 'ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM'.


This was one of the very noticeable things about the original HD coverage
of Wimbledon, all of 15 years ago. Because there was so much detail in the
HD picture, directors didn't neet to go in for middle distance shots.

Of course, when the pictures are also used on normal tv, there is a
problem. Mind you, there may not be all that many HD camera about.

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Using a RISC OS5 computer

John Cartmell wrote:

The technical quality of the picture (resolution) was excellent. The ability
to deal with the contrast, the design of the stadium, the choice of camera
positions, editing, (and zoom) was all terrible.

There's one thing the Brits are still good at, and are probably the best in the
world; sports OB coverage.


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Mark
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