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On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:42:14 GMT, Bob Levine
wrote:

>Spleen Merchant wrote:
>> Jeezus, the picture quality on the Montreal/Carolina game is so bad I
>> can barely make out the players numbers. I have a new HR-20 DVR and a
>> flat screen tv, yet it looks like old footage from the seventies.
>> What a rip-off.
>
>Is that an SD or HD broadcast? RDS went HD today just in time for
>tonight's game and will broadcast every Habs game in HD.
>
>Bob

Is a SD broadcast. No hi-def feed to be found on DTV. It looks real
bad. My old VHS camcorder has better quality.
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On Oct 3, 9:37 pm, "kovy" wrote:
> Yeah, it was unbearable. The Toronto game was fine.

It must have had something to do with the fact that it was only
broadcast in HD, and was downscaled to SD or something. It was just
as bad on cable as it apparently was on satellite.
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:01:17 -0000, Bender
wrote:

>On Oct 3, 9:37 pm, "kovy" wrote:
>> Yeah, it was unbearable. The Toronto game was fine.
>
>It must have had something to do with the fact that it was only
>broadcast in HD, and was downscaled to SD or something. It was just
>as bad on cable as it apparently was on satellite.

No. Downconverted Hd looks even better that standard SD. Definately a
problem with the Montreal feed.
Montreal should have never knocked down The Montreal Forum. They've
been cursed ever since.
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Spleen Merchant wrote:

> The Toronto game looks ok in SD, but the feed coming out of Montreal
> looks like poo-poo.
> If DirecTV wants to sell the hockey package, they had better pick up
> the slack. They're not gonna win over anyone with this junk.

The problem is that they don't always get to pick where the feed comes
from. In some cases they get an overly compressed signal and then have
to compress it again.

You already know the result. I see the same thing on Bell. Some of the
CI feeds look okay while others are so washed out you can barely watch them.

Bob
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Bender wrote:
> On Oct 3, 9:37 pm, "kovy" wrote:
>> Yeah, it was unbearable. The Toronto game was fine.
>
> It must have had something to do with the fact that it was only
> broadcast in HD, and was downscaled to SD or something. It was just
> as bad on cable as it apparently was on satellite.
>

Like I said earier, the RDS feed on Bell looked pretty good.

Bob
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On Oct 3, 5:39 pm, Spleen Merchant wrote:
> Jeezus, the picture quality on the Montreal/Carolina game is so bad I
> can barely make out the players numbers. I have a new HR-20 DVR and a
> flat screen tv, yet it looks like old footage from the seventies.
> What a rip-off.

You can't show a game in high-def AND have it broadcast in French at
the same time. It's impossible.

Signed,
R.J.
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R.J. wrote:
> On Oct 3, 5:39 pm, Spleen Merchant wrote:
>> Jeezus, the picture quality on the Montreal/Carolina game is so bad I
>> can barely make out the players numbers. I have a new HR-20 DVR and a
>> flat screen tv, yet it looks like old footage from the seventies.
>> What a rip-off.
>
> You can't show a game in high-def AND have it broadcast in French at
> the same time. It's impossible.

New technology. It's hard to imagine anything better.

Bob
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