ITV HD fails to show England's first World Cup 2010 goal to the home fans (video)
By Richard Lawler 
posted June 13th 2010 12:51AM
posted June 13th 2010 12:51AM
posted June 13th 2010 12:51AM
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bwah! too funny. i'll go ahead and downrank myself.
ABC's coverage today was excellent, don't really remember seeing any commercials. Soccer is great to watch because our networks still have yet to figure out how to work commercials in.
I couldn't be more pleased with ESPN's coverage of the World Cup so far. Commercial-free games, unobtrusive graphics that still manage to be clear and informative, and they even got rid of the BottomLine (an almost miraculous feat these days.)
The only bad thing is that it is presented in 720p, not 1080i. But that's neither here nor there.
@UnnDunn There's a reason it's 720p, because you'll get a better picture! For anything with quick movements like sports, interlacing will cause artifacts to appear on the screen. The progressive scan of 720p proves far superior in these instances. Now if anyone was broadcasting in 1080p, then you could start complaining about not getting the best possible picture.
@engadgetcomexcludeengadget
That would be sort of true, except ESPN gets the feeds from South Africa in 1080i at 50 fields per second (ie. 25 frames per second.) When its less than 30 frames per second, there is no drawback to using 1080i; any flat-panel TV worth the money these days will deinterlace the material properly and eliminate all interlacing artifacts.
So by using 720p, all ESPN is doing is chopping down the resolution for no real benefit.
@UnnDunn I switched back and forth watching England vs USA on ABC (720p) and on the Hispanic Univision channel here in the states which is supposedly broadcasting 1080i according to my tuner card in my HTPC. I did notice some pixelation on Univision at certain moments but I'm not sure whether that was due to "ComCrap" cramming all 3 1080i Latin broadcasts (Univision, Telemundo, and Telefutura) on a single cable channel?
Amelie? Are you on iTV's rooftop again?
What makes it even better, is it ITV HD never returned, they switched to showing ITV in standard def on the HD channel.
HD came back for about 10 minutes around 28-38 minutes of the first half, but then the channel remaining broadcasting upscaled SD for the rest of the evening, meaning ITV HD didn't show a single goal in HD last night on their HD service.
@liam Classic ITV, you can trust them to do something like that. It's a real pity that BBC didn't get all the games, it'd make such a difference if we didn't have all those ads at the most strange times.
Haha too funny. I'm sure fans were going apeshit over it. What I noticed about the match was how one sided it was and yet England still botched it, especially the US goal.
@DrXym
After scoring in the first 4mins, I was sure we were going to obliterate you.
No offence.
Quite disappointing. Shame the group stages don't go to penalties at a draw - would have made it very interesting.
@FORDY I'm British by birth and definitely not American. I just don't take a game featuring 22 millionaires very seriously.
I do think England really screwed up big time by not putting an end to things with the ample opportunities they had. And then to concede such a goal... I feel sorry for the goalie because the rest of his life is going to be hell if England don't qualify.
Video has been taken down.
First time I've been pleased to not receive HD tv yet, or not when its scheduled anyway.
"Exact moment England scored its first goal" - did you guys see a completely different version altogether?
Our "first" goal?
@FORDY Yes. Because the second goal in that game was yours too. :P
@FORDY I'm willing to assume england will score more goals in the world cup.
@RichardLawler
Ha, ok. Sorry, skimmed through, presumed you referred to that game specifically.
With any luck, we might get a few more in.
Wow, I'm surprised we haven't heard about mass rioting in the streets of London yet. That's unreal.
I'm in Canada. I was out of the house for the broadcast so I PVRed it on both ABC, (no ESPN up here but it was the same feed as I understand,) and CBC. I watched the pre-game on ABC and the actual match on CBC. The reason is because CBC is too cheap to put on any real production, they just take the international feed, (the on sanctioned by FIFA,) and slap their logo on it. That's what most "Canadian" television is anyways. The commentary was just FAR too great on the international feed. I didn't like the guys ESPN sent out, too much talking.
But as far as feed quality was concerned it was fine. Surprising because CBC has made many a "gaff" like that with both CFL and NHL games. ie: Cutting out in overtime to "rejoin regularly scheduled programming."
The last team that tied the us in the world cup group stages went on to win it (Italy). Come on England!
It's on SBS in australia, and it's great. There's no ads (besides half time) and there's 3D on 25 matches but for some reason it's in 720p… hmm
The HD feed is 720p, not the 3D one, though it probably is too