Chris Bennett
Auditioning
- Joined
- Oct 11, 1998
- Messages
- 7
Today was the first time I have been able to watch a sporting event in HDTV that is also being broadcast on regular TV. (The previous was a hockey game that was only on a HDTV channel).
Unfortunately, the Wow was not for the Super Bowl.
It was for the Laker's game from NBC (1080i) that started 4 hours before the football game.
I was flipping back and forth between the HDTV channel and the regular channel and the difference was stunning. In HDTV you can see the faces of people in the crowd and the players are not all fuzzy. This is what HDTV is all about.
The Super Bowl was another matter. While the widescreen presentation was "nice", it was obvious that the picture was not any better that the regular 480i broadcast at least on my TV. The people in the background and the writing on the Declaration of Independence were just as fuzzy in HDTV as they were on a regular channel.
So looks like Fox still "Sucks" for their use of 480P widescreen. Not worth buying HDTV equipement to watch Fox programming. Thank God for NBC, CBS, and PBS for their use of 1080i.
Chris Bennett
Unfortunately, the Wow was not for the Super Bowl.
It was for the Laker's game from NBC (1080i) that started 4 hours before the football game.
I was flipping back and forth between the HDTV channel and the regular channel and the difference was stunning. In HDTV you can see the faces of people in the crowd and the players are not all fuzzy. This is what HDTV is all about.
The Super Bowl was another matter. While the widescreen presentation was "nice", it was obvious that the picture was not any better that the regular 480i broadcast at least on my TV. The people in the background and the writing on the Declaration of Independence were just as fuzzy in HDTV as they were on a regular channel.
So looks like Fox still "Sucks" for their use of 480P widescreen. Not worth buying HDTV equipement to watch Fox programming. Thank God for NBC, CBS, and PBS for their use of 1080i.
Chris Bennett