Last night's game (CIN/BAL) on SD Channel 212 was just another in a series of substandard quality SD football transmissions on Directv.
I was switching back and forth between 2 sources (DTV watching the Ravens game on 212), and Cable TV (watching the college game on ESPN). Picture quality wasn't even close. Cable picture quality just crushes DTV's SD football both on NFL network and on Sunday Ticket. Strange thing is .... the commercials on NFL Network looked okay, and channel 100/preview channel looks pretty good too. But those football games .... blech!
I imagine the HD version of the game looks good, but Directv themselves tout "DVD Quality Picture" on SD. That's laughable. I sure hope the addition of satellites in 2007 opens up some bandwidth, because these overly-compressed broadcasts border on nauseating.
Jeff
I was switching back and forth between 2 sources (DTV watching the Ravens game on 212), and Cable TV (watching the college game on ESPN). Picture quality wasn't even close. Cable picture quality just crushes DTV's SD football both on NFL network and on Sunday Ticket. Strange thing is .... the commercials on NFL Network looked okay, and channel 100/preview channel looks pretty good too. But those football games .... blech!
I imagine the HD version of the game looks good, but Directv themselves tout "DVD Quality Picture" on SD. That's laughable. I sure hope the addition of satellites in 2007 opens up some bandwidth, because these overly-compressed broadcasts border on nauseating.
Jeff