Super Bowl OTA vs Tubi streaming

[comfortably_numb]

Been watching via Tubi on both my 55" Insignia 1080p TV and my 42" 4K LG set. Each is drawing about 13mbps. The LG is displaying the HDR flag, but I honestly think the picture looks better on the Insignia.

Fox is upconverting 1080p60 HDR for fake 4K on streaming services.

The Tubi feed does look WAY better than the bitstarved 720p OTA feed on WDAF OTA.

Fox’s 1080p to 4K Upscaling Workflow for Super Bowl 2025: An Engaging Debate - Streaming Learning Center

It started with a simple observation: Fox plans to upscale a 1080p HDR feed to 4K for the Super Bowl

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[klang]

Watching Tubi app on my Sony, looks darn good. Not sure how this app showed up, I never installed it. Not aware of a way to determine if HDR is there.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Not aware of a way to determine if HDR is there.

What TV do you have? When I started streaming the game on Tubi, the HDR flag appeared in the upper right corner of my TV.

 

[klang]

What TV do you have? When I started streaming the game on Tubi, the HDR flag appeared in the upper right corner of my TV.

XBR-65X90CH

I watch plenty of stuff labeled as HDR but this TV doesn’t give any indication of that.

 

[Jimbo]

XBR-65X90CH

I watch plenty of stuff labeled as HDR but this TV doesn’t give any indication of that.

My Sony doesn't either.
I'm watching on YTTV Fox 4K channel, looks Awesome.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

What time does the game begin?

 

[primestar31]

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[osu1991]

Had the hdr flag on roku 4K during pregame check but as usual with Fox apps no HDR on Apple TV 4K from Tubi. Just got home from party at my sisters and not getting hdr on Roku now. Just went back to TiVo and the regular Fox OTA feed. Streams did look sharper but not gonna waste the data now

 

[Jimbo]

Had the hdr flag on roku 4K during pregame check but as usual with Fox apps no HDR on Apple TV 4K from Tubi. Just got home from party at my sisters and not getting hdr on Roku now. Just went back to TiVo and the regular Fox OTA feed. Streams did look sharper but not gonna waste the data now

I have been watching on my Sony TV YTTV Fox 4K channel and it looks GREAT, switched over to the Roku, same channel on YTTV and it looked terrible (washed out), I went back to the TV Apps.

 

[primestar31]

Then there's this:


View: https://youtu.be/h5L9-wNnPOA?si=2BJosV0cnUPJ9CUv

 

[cpalmer2k]

I agree FOX's broadcast signal wasn't up to par at all. I watched parts via DirecTV, and Spectrum (who receives the feed directly from the station via Fiber) and it looked bad on both. The data rate was plenty high enough on the Spectrum feed too based on my TiVo. It was simply a crappy feed coming from the station to begin with.

 

[Bruce]

I agree FOX's broadcast signal wasn't up to par at all. I watched parts via DirecTV, and Spectrum (who receives the feed directly from the station via Fiber) and it looked bad on both. The data rate was plenty high enough on the Spectrum feed too based on my TiVo. It was simply a crappy feed coming from the station to begin with.

I watched the Fox ATSC 3.0 broadcast, it was a great picture, never have been a fan of up-converted 4K.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Watched on DISH 4K. Just mainly had it on for sound as I was working on the new server.

Can't even remember any of the commercials but the Seal one, and that one kind of freaked me out.