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But you cut to highlights of games and it looks like trash. Basketball especially anytime it zooms in on a guy running.

Is it just me or is there nobody out there doing HD Sports the way it should be done? Watching playoff basketball there is so much pixellation during fast motion, especially on the color red. Its painful to watch.

I've yet to see it look good. TNT looked compressed through Comcast and DirecTV. NBC looks like ass no matter what, Comcast, DirecTV and even OTA. The fact that even OTA NBC playoff basketball looked terrible here in Portland, OR leads me to believe that the problem is way beyond Comcast or DirecTV, its in the transmission of the game itself from the arena.

Tell me I'm wrong. Watching basketball is the quickest and easiest way to realize that over-compression (or just lazy compression) is a crime.

Just had another thought. NBC here in Portland, OR which I was watching the playoffs, they broadcast that ridiculous sub-channel of weather on 8.2. That misuse of bandwidth could be the cause of this garbage.]]>May 6th 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/May 5th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/]]>May 5th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/May 5th 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Technical_specifications
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Death to bloody interlace.

However, I don't see how they can get good pictures out of 1080p at 60fps. They can't even do it at 25 or 30fps atm. Horrible compression to keep within bandwidth. HDCAM SR machines (the ALMOST decent tape HD recording method) is the most available and popular means of recording HD at the moment, and entire studios are downgrading to standard HDCAM because of bandwidth and not being able to get the data into the NLE's. HDCAM is 3:1:1 for pity's sake. It's useless! If they start off cak, how will our pictures at home ever look good? 'tis the only reason our (PAL land) SD pictures look(ed) so good - they start off completely uncompressed and generally remain so right up until transmission. Now they get horribly compressed in a multiplexer and bandwidth gets shared over 10 channels and looks useless. I watched a film on PAL SDTV channel Film4 yesterday. The Xvid copy I have of it features far less banding...

I give up with television. Why do we even care about broadcast programmed content anyway? Surely we all want it when we want it.... on demand....

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do you have any links to this blind test you mentioned above? i'd like to give that a read.]]>May 6th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/
I just wrote an incredibly long and detailed message and proceeded to click post to which I lost the lot (and obviously it didn't post).

Can't be bothered to write it all out again, so here's the link. To clarify, I hadn't read the report when stating my opinion earlier (I apologise for my aggressive slant - I'm no HD curmudgeon), only spoken to EBU (again apologies, I had remembered it as SMPTE!).

Of particular note in regards to my mentioning of HDCAM is PDF page 7 when they mention HDCAM's horizontal subsampling.]]>May 6th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/
www.ebu.ch/trev_308-hdtv.pdf]]>May 6th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/1080p-60-fps-production-confirmed-for-espns-new-l-a-studio/May 6th 2009 9:02AM