NBC is the pit in my HD

[riffjim4069]

I recorded both the Florida versus Tennessee and Notre Dame versus Michigan State games this afternoon while I was out. Anyway, the FL game on CBS looked great, but the ND game on NBC looked like crap (floating grass, motion artifacts, out of focus, etc.). I know this has been mentioned many times in the past, but why can't NBC get football in HD right? Come on NBC! You guys were the first broadcaster to bring us HD, but you much still be using the original equipment you purchased in the late '90s! :rant:

The filesize of the FL game was 4.4GB larger than the ND game. That's a whole lot of bits we're losing for a 3 1/2 hour football game. I want my missing bits NBC! The funny thing is the CBS station is multicasting two subchannels...just like the NBC affiliate. NBC HD sucks in DC, it sucks in Dallas, and it sucks in Detroit - it just plan sucks! I just don't think I can continue to watch football on NBC unless is on the very small screen.

Goosfraba...goosfraba...goosfraba...

 

[Jimbo]

I recorded both the Florida versus Tennessee and Notre Dame versus Michigan State games this afternoon while I was out. Anyway, the FL game on CBS looked great, but the ND game on NBC looked like crap (floating grass, motion artifacts, out of focus, etc.). I know this has been mentioned many times in the past, but why can't NBC get football in HD right? Come on NBC! You guys were the first broadcaster to bring us HD, but you much still be using the original equipment you purchased in the late '90s! :rant:

The filesize of the FL game was 4.4GB larger than the ND game. That's a whole lot of bits we're losing for a 3 1/2 hour football game. I want my missing bits NBC! The funny thing is the CBS station is multicasting two subchannels...just like the NBC affiliate. NBC HD sucks in DC, it sucks in Dallas, and it sucks in Detroit - it just plan sucks! I just don't think I can continue to watch football on NBC unless is on the very small screen.

Goosfraba...goosfraba...goosfraba...

I agree, NBC is the bottom of the barrel for HD,. Sports or otherwise ...
CBS does a fabulous job, all the primetime show look stunning, I'm glad that Medium moved this year, it was the only show I watch that was on NBC other than Leno and he's not on a 11:30 any more, his show always looked pretty good too.

 

[Rey]

same here. the crappiest HD pic for games. same last year too.

 

[riffjim4069]

In 2002 is wasn't that big of a deal...wasn't too happy about it in 2005, but still not a large HD following for them to be too concerned...however, after the outcry the past three years you would have thought they would have unscrewed themselves here in 2009 after the analog-to-digital conversion. Extremely disappointing!

 

[Jimbo]

In 2002 is wasn't that big of a deal...wasn't too happy about it in 2005, but still not a large HD following for them to be too concerned...however, after the outcry the past three years you would have thought they would have unscrewed themselves here in 2009 after the analog-to-digital conversion. Extremely disappointing!

Jim, What exactly is "Ummoddified " in your signature ?

unmodified national HD channels

Your not trying to say not Compressed are you ?

 

[skysurfer]

it's probably not NBC's fault. They may be reducing the bitrate of the local NBC HD signal to you. If you want a copy as good as it gets, record from an off-air tuner like I do. My NBC aff is only broadcasting 1 subchannel and it leaves good bitrate for NBC HD and it looks pretty good to me. CBS here looks good, too, with no digital subchannels locally.

 

[Rey]

my NBC off air channel looks exactly the same. for me that is.......

 

[riffjim4069]

Jim, What exactly is "Ummoddified " in your signature ?

unmodified national HD channels

Your not trying to say not Compressed are you ?

The word unmodified was taken from a Verizon ad in which they compared FiOS HD to Comcast HD. Since all video is compressed in some form or fashion, Verizon uses the word unmodifed to indicate they pass through the signal from the broadcaster without any additional compression, multiplexing, rate shaping, molesting, or just plain diddlin' with it. They keep their hands off!

Unfortunately, poor quality HD from the broadcaster still looks equally bad on FiOS.

 

[Jimbo]

The word unmodified was taken from a Verizon ad in which they compared FiOS HD to Comcast HD. Since all video is compressed in some form or fashion, Verizon uses the word unmodifed to indicate they pass through the signal from the broadcaster without any additional compression, multiplexing, rate shaping, molesting, or just plain diddlin' with it. They keep their hands off!

Unfortunately, poor quality HD from the broadcaster still looks equally bad on FiOS.

Thanks, I didn't know where you got that info from, now I do.

However, I still doubt Verizon's claim, but thats OK.

Everything is compressed somewhere.