Posted on 09/12/2010 10:58:44 AM PDT by ml/nj
I'm using a converter but I'm getting full-screen video from Fox NFL.
I've noticed many times that I'll get that small "screen within a screen" that you're getting, and it's usually during B movies, late night programming, local evening news, other non-prime time stuff. So it could be your local affiliate is having technical difficulties or are saving bandwidth $$$ by giving you the little screen.
I just heard Fox explain my new view,according to them I am getting more of something that I wasn’t getting last year. Also my wife said she couldn’t tell the difference either in regular TV and HD TV, so I let her have the old TV and I took the HD TV to the man cave.
Up yours.
I guess anything that doesn’t affect Your Highness is “inane.” (Maybe you should be posting on SpanishRepublic, because it’s pretty clear you don’t have a clear understanding of English.) That you exult in the discomfort of a fellow FReeper is either disgusting or suspicious.
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I feel your pain. I was quite upset when I couldn’t buy 8-track tapes anymore. Damn you Sony and your stupid Walkman!
But you know there are these things called Sports Bars, most of them have the new fangled HD TVs. Or maybe a friend of yours who has one will invite you over. Or as a last resort you could hang out in a Wal-Mart electronics section on game-days.
Just a few friendly suggestions. Go Steelers!
And the Baltimore Colts along with the Cleveland Rams. OK, I don't remember the Cleveland Rams, but I do remember when the Colts were in Baltimore.
Early on in the game the FOX shills chirped about how they were "simulating the HD experience" for all, and get this: if you were watching with Spanish titles they would appear in the areas of the screen now uselessly dark for English speakers. I'm surprised that everyone watching on a 4x3 tube TV wouldn't notice.
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Fair enough, quit yer bitchin’ about the Titans. At least we had the dignity to ditch the name. :^)
If it looks like that next week, then Fox has gone to crap video and is telling us "don't believe your lying eyes", but I suspect they're just having technical difficulties. Maybe their main satellite pipeline is malfunctioning, something isn't right, anyway.
We'll see next week. (My conspiratorial mind at work, if it continues to be crappy video like that, maybe it's "you guys better spend the extra bucks on cable if you want good video".)
No thanks for me. I don't like TV enough to go cable, I'll find something better to do. Like read a good book, or go for a walk.
I just watched the last two minutes of the first half from Philly on FOX, and except for the annoying "letterbox" (Yes, I know what it is.) format the picture seemed normal. (Note that I normally would have been watching this from the beginning, but the Giant game was really hard on my eyes so I just a few minutes ago went to check on the score.) There was none of the discontinuous picture and no/normal moire effects. I could even tell the 50+ yard field goal attempt was good without help from the announcers.
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I'm not a big TV fan. In fact I don't think I watch anything anymore where they don't play the National Anthem before the program, but Giants Football is nearly religious for me. (Even though Eli is way overrated.)
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I remember as a kid going down to the store (can't remember what kind) and checking individual tubes on a huge tube checking console with dozens of sockets to fit the different types.
FOX has great HD picture. I dread tonights game on NBC though. There HD is terrible. Choppy and blurred with almost any fast motion. And no, it isn’t my TV - 1080P Samsung Plasma. NBC needs to buy new HD cameras.
Bet you, then, they’re just having trouble with the feed. I worked in AF comm for a long time. We often used commercial equipment such as AT&T or Motorola that was very reliable at most sites. Most everything was double backup, with automatic switchover when something went wrong. But when something went so wrong that even the backup didn’t function, it was sweating-bullets time to figure out what the H was wrong. So they probably have a team very good techs swarming on it like ants on honey. Up, down, up, down, holy $**+ what the H is wrong with this $**+!
Donate it to Goodwill and take a tax deduction.
If you have AmVets they even send a truck to pick it up.
The Lions are cursed! Until Ford sells this francise to someone willing to win, they will forver be losers.....
FWIW, I predicted only four wins this year;..
This was the ugliest game I've ever seen.........
Maybe they could say that they were experiencing "technical difficulties"? They didn't. The BRAGGED about the picture. IT SUCKED!
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Yes, it was a slick move ditching the Oilers name! :-)
Montana and Brady were low draft picks. Even the geniuses don't know everything.
Me, I'm afraid I'm stuck forever being glutton-for-punishment Lions fan, having grown up in Michigan. Now today Stafford has suffered what looks like a severe injury to his throwing shoulder. The curse of Bobby Layne continues......
LOL!
Channel 5 - NYC, NY Giants game 9/12/10
I’m a long-time Giants fan, but I had to turn the game off and follow it on the radio (WFAN web-broadcast) after about 10 headache-inducing minutes. FOX and their advertisers lost another viewer. CBS and NBC both do a better job.
FAR too may worthless close-ups and quick cut-aways made it impossible to see formations and plays as they developed, and “get into” the flow of the game. It looked like a highlight film produced by someone with ADD!!
There was also a distracting “vibration” and/or “sparkle” every time the field lines were shown at an angle. Also, who decided the score and logo would occupy so much of the top of the screen? I couldn’t see the ball approaching a punt returner because of the intrusive score display.
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