Olympics image quality

[mfoster711]

I have been watching the Olympics and the image quality has been poor during fast action. I just upgraded to Hopper last week and also bought a new 55" TV and I was worried the poor image quality was due to the new TV. But, I checked the image quality of the Olympics on all my TVs tonight and it was poor on each. I also watched some NFL tonight on my new TV and it looked fine.

So, what I am wondering is if the poor image quality is related to the Hopper, is it all Dish recievers or is this just due to a poor signal from NBC?

 

[Bobby]

It's NBC..... The Hopper doesn't discriminate by channel....

 

[garys]

I thought that maybe the English cameras don't like NBC.

 

[Pepper]

I have been noticing that they use some really bad camera angles sometimes. The table tennis most of the time was the view from directly behind one of the players, for example, which made the table look squashed and even tinier than it really is.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I have been watching the feeds on my C Band dish and can say in this case it is NBC.

 

[Jhon69]

All I know is for the best HD PQ you use an over the air antenna,and yes I am and yes it is.


If you receiver is not OTA able you connect the antenna directly to your HDTV.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

No for the best picture quality you watch it off the source that your local TV stations are rebroadcasting and again thats the C Band feed.

I have also been watching live via the BBC using a Slingbox, and I got to be honest, the HD quality looks better (even over the slingbox) then what we are seeing here in the US!

 

[Jhon69]

No for the best picture quality you watch it off the source that your local TV stations are rebroadcasting and again thats the C Band feed.

I have also been watching live via the BBC using a Slingbox, and I got to be honest, the HD quality looks better (even over the slingbox) then what we are seeing here in the US!

So NBC is not scrambling their Olympics feeds on C Band?.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Nope.

 

[Jhon69]

Nope.

Good for the C Banders!.

Of course I have no plans to put in a C Band system twice.

 

[DustoMan]

Swimming especially looks like a hot pixelated mess. Didn't notice as much when I was watching it pure OTA at the in-laws.

I wish there was some way I could see what it looks like in Super Hi Vision though. I hear it's amazing.

 

[Mike_H]

there are numerous issues with broadcast and even cable t.v.'s adoption of HD cameras and their attempts to broadcast in HD. They themselves seem to be using some sort of loss-less multiplexing or compression that is lower quality than what Dish uses for their multiplexing. Dish's system seems to adapt to movement pretty good, but NBC's hasn't. I've checked it on my OTA antenna when I first noticed the issue and it's the same for OTA as it is for Dish. The opening ceremonies were terrible when the camera would try to sweep the audience with the dark and then the flickering lights. Such systems weakest area are darks and shadows and the NBC systems seem particularly poor. You see this during the gymnastics as well, were the background would be indeterminate initially as the camera moved into a olympian as they waited for their score, and you could see the background start to clear up and gain detail.

Seen the same thing with many sporting events on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC. HD pictures of football fields missing definition and detail. Baseball fields appearing as green blotches as the camera follows the fly ball. Again, i've seen it with OTA, as well as dish. Something to do with the live HD setups that the networks are using. Compare that to HD Net broadcasts of live mixed martial arts which seemed to pop with detail. Even back with Voom HD, and their PIG series.

 

[jimdandyvi]

I thought that all the video for the Olympics was produced by a pool production company i.e. Olympic Broadcast Service. The production company is supposedly producing 6,100 hours of coverage of the events. NBC then would only be producing their special coverage and talking head studio specials. The coverage of events is done by the pool production company. NBC provides it own commentary and probably can choose the camera angles they want to show from what ever shots are being fed to them.