Eurosport HD launches right on time
By Darren Murph 
posted May 26th 2008 12:06PM
posted May 26th 2008 12:06PM
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posted May 26th 2008 12:06PM
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Darn it, I was going to comment on that but you guys beat me to it!
It says full hd in the lower right corner, does that mean they are broadcasting 1080p ???
Wonder if this weekend's WRC coverage will be in HD?
Can the UK Sky service get this yet?
Quality is actually pretty poor. Mostly due to poor source materials or so it seems.
And though it says Full HD it's actually 1080i.
Percieved resolution on my 47" 1080p-set is not much greater than the regular Eurosport but at least it's in widescreen and the bitrate isn't piss poor.
so when is eurosport going to be coming to directv? i had the privilege to live in germany for 2 years and i swear 80% of what i watched was eurosport. sure do miss watching WRC...
On Finnish cable network I've been watching it, quality has looked very nice on my 1080p projector whenever they actually use HD source. It seems that the French Open games shown live are proper 1080i but some (but not all) of the delayed games (e.g. yesterday when it was raining in Paris) were just SD content upscaled to 1080i. Also, the wrap-up studio discussion and the snippets of the games after the last match were just upscaled SD.
It was also lauch here in Portugal by Meo from Portugal Telecom.
The quality is superb altought I'm still with an old 16:9 CRT
The picture alone already looks MUCH better than what the Tennischannel-HD (Directv) is outputting. I guess it could be worse. It could be stretch-o-vision (TBS/TNT).