espnhd quality

[Lkr]

am i the only one that thinks it looks turrrrrible(charles barkley reference)? the sky is swimming with pixels. what is this overcompressed garbage disney is allowing onto the air?

 

[raoul5788]

It has consistently been one of the worst of the hd channels since it came on, IMHO, of course!

 

[Jimbo]

Looks fine here.

 

[Lkr]

i thought it was my tv making sunday night baseball unwatchable, but then I realized ESPN HD has always been horrible. FSN West Angels games have also been bad on EI as well. I don't know if its D*, the providers overcompressing, 720p, or my tv

 

[Lkr]

Looks fine here.

are you using a CRT, Plasma, or LCD?

 

[Jimbo]

are you using a CRT, Plasma, or LCD?

60" Pioneer Elite Plasma

 

[Lkr]

60" Pioneer Elite Plasma

that might be why; i'm using an LCD

 

[tkrandall]

I noticed on my parent's ~48 inch LCD screen last night (Dish network) that the Cards-Brewers game looked very bit starved - homogeneous background information like the backstop or outfield wall padding looked rather macroblocked, and the fans in the stands, even with them intentionally out of focus, looked a bit under defined. Dark/shady area of the stadium even had "noise" in the image. Curious, I later went to my 61 inch Samsung DLP set (DirecTV) and these elements all looked much better defined. I don't know if the difference I was seeing is a product of the TVs, ESPN, or of the feed from Dish vs DirecTV, or a combinatiosn of all of those factors.. (Not wanting to start a Dish s DirecTV thing here....)

 

[FlyingJ]

Come on Jimbo! Lets not freak out Lkr, espn has always been fair as picture quality goes. All you have to do is watch a minute on YES and then watch a minute of baseball on espn to know that espn is sub-standard! Did I say fair...no, not that good, espn sucks, hard to believe but true, it is not his set!

 

[vurbano]

its always looked like a@@

 

[FlyingJ]

I noticed on my parent's ~48 inch LCD screen last night (Dish network) that the Cards-Brewers game looked very bit starved - homogeneous background information like the backstop or outfield wall padding looked rather macroblocked, and the fans in the stands, even with them intentionally out of focus, looked a bit under defined. Dark/shady area of the stadium even had "noise" in the image. Curious, I later went to my 61 inch Samsung DLP set (DirecTV) and these elements all looked much better defined. I don't know if the difference I was seeing is a product of the TVs, ESPN, or of the feed from Dish vs DirecTV, or a combinatiosn of all of those factors.. (Not wanting to start a Dish s DirecTV thing here....)

Once again...Vurbano is correct....it is not your set...not your provider...espn looks like crap even on FIOS, nothing wrong with LCD...get rid of that sad face Lkr!

 

[tigerfan33]

Once again...Vurbano is correct....it is not your set...not your provider...espn looks like crap even on FIOS, nothing wrong with LCD...get rid of that sad face Lkr!

True. ESPN HD has been a problem on the three different providers I have used.
Monday Night Football has been the worse. You would think after several years they could fix the problem.

 

[Lkr]

tkrandall's problems are the same I was having. VERY noisy on dark surfaces like the sky, dugout, backstop, outfield, etc. I don't recall the World Series on Fox being this bad, and YES was far better on EI

 

[FlyingJ]

tkrandall's problems are the same I was having. VERY noisy on dark surfaces like the sky, dugout, backstop, outfield, etc. I don't recall the World Series on Fox being this bad, and YES was far better on EI

Far better? Like the distance between earth and the sun far!

 

[Jimbo]

Come on Jimbo! Lets not freak out Lkr, espn has always been fair as picture quality goes. All you have to do is watch a minute on YES and then watch a minute of baseball on espn to know that espn is sub-standard! Did I say fair...no, not that good, espn sucks, hard to believe but true, it is not his set!

Hey,
Your welcome to make the drive up here anytime you'd like.

 

[Jimbo]

tkrandall's problems are the same I was having. VERY noisy on dark surfaces like the sky, dugout, backstop, outfield, etc. I don't recall the World Series on Fox being this bad, and YES was far better on EI

Far better? Like the distance between earth and the sun far!

Of course the YES network is going to look much better.
They have all the money in the world, they better look great.

 

[Lkr]

Of course the YES network is going to look much better.
They have all the money in the world, they better look great.

ESPN doesn't have all the money in the world?

 

[Jimbo]

ESPN doesn't have all the money in the world?

Not as much as the Stienbrenner clan.

 

[Lkr]

Not as much as the Stienbrenner clan.

Disney vs Steinbrenner....hmm lol

 

[Jimbo]

Disney vs Steinbrenner....hmm lol

Think about it .......

It's probably pretty close