DirecTV HD Olympic coverage

Bill Sharpe wrote:

I can live with a day late. The HD picture is fantastic. The ads are
repetitive,

I've never seen the ads. Why would anyone want to watch them?

I have an HD TiVo. I can't imagine watching TV without a TiVo. Those
ads would drive me to distraction. I haven't seen one I didn't want for
about 3 years now (only 2 months for HD TiVo, but standard TV TiVo
before that)


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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:39:33 GMT, "Cody k"
wrote:

The commercial looks like ****e. The crowd shots are extremely blurry, not a
face to be seen. Better than SD, certainly, but not nearly HD. I'd guess not
more than around 500 lines of resolution. Why would Sony do this?

Heh. I was wondering the same thing - "that doesn't look very good".
Very odd that they wouldn't have done a better job there - people
could think "Hell, I can see blurry blobs on my old TV!"

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:39:33 GMT, "Cody k"
wrote:

The commercial looks like ****e. The crowd shots are extremely blurry, not a
face to be seen. Better than SD, certainly, but not nearly HD. I'd guess not
more than around 500 lines of resolution. Why would Sony do this?

Heh. I was wondering the same thing - "that doesn't look very good".
Very odd that they wouldn't have done a better job there - people
could think "Hell, I can see blurry blobs on my old TV!"

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:10:07 +0000, Burt Johnson wrote:

Bill Sharpe wrote:

I can live with a day late. The HD picture is fantastic. The ads are
repetitive,

I've never seen the ads. Why would anyone want to watch them?

I have an HD TiVo. I can't imagine watching TV without a TiVo. Those
ads would drive me to distraction. I haven't seen one I didn't want for
about 3 years now (only 2 months for HD TiVo, but standard TV TiVo
before that)

It is incredibly difficult to watch OTA HD when I have a DirecTiVo. Alas,
it is only SD and I can't see laying out the $1000 right now. I would be
especially helpful now though since content is a little sparse. That is,
there isn't always something on that I want to see. I've given up on the
ABC Saturday night movie though. They have to add so much time for
commercials that the kids have to go to bed before the movie is over.

Very painful.

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:10:07 +0000, Burt Johnson wrote:

Bill Sharpe wrote:

I can live with a day late. The HD picture is fantastic. The ads are
repetitive,

I've never seen the ads. Why would anyone want to watch them?

I have an HD TiVo. I can't imagine watching TV without a TiVo. Those
ads would drive me to distraction. I haven't seen one I didn't want for
about 3 years now (only 2 months for HD TiVo, but standard TV TiVo
before that)

It is incredibly difficult to watch OTA HD when I have a DirecTiVo. Alas,
it is only SD and I can't see laying out the $1000 right now. I would be
especially helpful now though since content is a little sparse. That is,
there isn't always something on that I want to see. I've given up on the
ABC Saturday night movie though. They have to add so much time for
commercials that the kids have to go to bed before the movie is over.

Very painful.