Man I counted 5 programs today that were unwatchable in HD.
- Transporter
- Equator HD (for reference)
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Daredevil
- Showtime Boxing in HD Mahleel vs. Brewster (WBO Champ)
Mosquito noise and pixelation tonight. Also the sound on premium channels is very.. VERY low compared to OTA and other network channels, this is just a constant annoyance having to flip up and down the volume. I wish the premium channels would have the sound BOOM the VOOM Olympics came in.
I wanted to see Eyes Wide Shut, it's sexy and suspensful, seen this movie many times, but I was convinced that tonights showing on Voom was off a DVD playing off a dirty laser. The compression was terrible, I confused naked Nicole Kidman with a shirtless Tom Cruise it was so bad. Kubrick uses filters in certain scenes of this film, notably a yellow filter in the early parts of the film, then goes to no filter between Tom Cruise and the old friend who bangs the junkie, then soft filters and so forth... this was playing tremendous havok with the compression or something as noise and bad PQ was forming on skin tones and dark areas....I was real upset then I switched to showtime's heavyweight match tonight.
With the Tyson fight still etched in my head, I threw my hands up like "What? Voom's going for the KO tonight in my house, with bad PQ popping my eyes out", a shame too because recently the PQ took an uptrend and stayed there.
The good thing is this nobody fight turned out to be really, really good, lots of heart, Brewster the favorite took some kind of pounding from a taller longer armed guy, who's his friend and sparring partner! I have no idea how he didn't fall.. good fight forgot about PQ for a while.
Alright enough bad.
I was trying to compare for my wife the glorious differences between HD and SD, the sad thing is, she (who knows JACK about HD) likes HD, but asked me about the noise and soft fuzziness at times around the edges of the HD picture, I said that's compression but to compare I threw on the football game and Medical Investigation OTA... Also compared Nemo in SD to Nemo in HD and she was impressed (again). What I will say is that Voom's SD is freaking outstanding for SD. That's a +, just not a plus I care to run around telling everyone about. "Holy crap Johnson, YOU GOT to come to my house and check out these STANDARD definition shows, they will blow your eyes out!!"
Where is everyone tonight?
- Transporter
- Equator HD (for reference)
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Daredevil
- Showtime Boxing in HD Mahleel vs. Brewster (WBO Champ)
Mosquito noise and pixelation tonight. Also the sound on premium channels is very.. VERY low compared to OTA and other network channels, this is just a constant annoyance having to flip up and down the volume. I wish the premium channels would have the sound BOOM the VOOM Olympics came in.
I wanted to see Eyes Wide Shut, it's sexy and suspensful, seen this movie many times, but I was convinced that tonights showing on Voom was off a DVD playing off a dirty laser. The compression was terrible, I confused naked Nicole Kidman with a shirtless Tom Cruise it was so bad. Kubrick uses filters in certain scenes of this film, notably a yellow filter in the early parts of the film, then goes to no filter between Tom Cruise and the old friend who bangs the junkie, then soft filters and so forth... this was playing tremendous havok with the compression or something as noise and bad PQ was forming on skin tones and dark areas....I was real upset then I switched to showtime's heavyweight match tonight.
With the Tyson fight still etched in my head, I threw my hands up like "What? Voom's going for the KO tonight in my house, with bad PQ popping my eyes out", a shame too because recently the PQ took an uptrend and stayed there.
The good thing is this nobody fight turned out to be really, really good, lots of heart, Brewster the favorite took some kind of pounding from a taller longer armed guy, who's his friend and sparring partner! I have no idea how he didn't fall.. good fight forgot about PQ for a while.
Alright enough bad.
I was trying to compare for my wife the glorious differences between HD and SD, the sad thing is, she (who knows JACK about HD) likes HD, but asked me about the noise and soft fuzziness at times around the edges of the HD picture, I said that's compression but to compare I threw on the football game and Medical Investigation OTA... Also compared Nemo in SD to Nemo in HD and she was impressed (again). What I will say is that Voom's SD is freaking outstanding for SD. That's a +, just not a plus I care to run around telling everyone about. "Holy crap Johnson, YOU GOT to come to my house and check out these STANDARD definition shows, they will blow your eyes out!!"
Where is everyone tonight?
