View Full Version : 2008 NFL on FOX in HDTV - Week 4


homcom
09-28-08, 10:26 AM
The NFL on FOX in HDTV for week 4 include the following games:

1PM
Arizona at NY Jets
Atlanta at Carolina
Green Bay at Tampa Bay
Minnesota at Tennessee
San Francisco at New Orleans


4:15PM
Washington at Dallas

All FOX HD games are produced in 720p and 5.1.

FOX is the doubleheader network.

All times ET.

Please include your source (call letters and city) and provider (Cable, Sat, OTA, ST).

E-A-G-L-E-S
09-28-08, 01:05 PM
1P.M. game:
Green Bay at Tampa Bay
Fox WTFX out of Philadelphia.
D*

**Game is in SD and blacked out on ticket and superfan. :mad:

bdfox18doe
09-28-08, 01:08 PM
Solid 15 mb/s here for Atlanta @ Carolina

LSpera
09-28-08, 01:13 PM
Comcast South Jersey (FOX) has the TB/GB game in SD. Yuck.

primetimeguy
09-28-08, 02:04 PM
MN/TEN game here in Minneapolis. The last couple weeks I thought FOX looked better than what I remember from last year. This came is back to the subpar PQ I'd expect from FOX.

rp71284
09-28-08, 02:43 PM
Same here in Pittsburgh with GB/TB.
Seems like the picture is great and switches to low quality blurry HD.
Of course CBS does the same thing here with their graphics going blurry in and out all game long.

ncxcstud
09-28-08, 03:31 PM
WACH57
OTA
Lexington, SC

Atlanta vs. Carolina

one of the best PQ games this year on WACH. However, why is Fox using this TERRIBLE reply camera from above the stadium when showing some plays. Uggh...Its like I hooked my dad's 20-year old camcorder to my HDTV...eww

juancmjr
09-28-08, 03:36 PM
SF/NO on KTVU through Comcast. On field closeup shots are excellent. Wide shots have the crowd flickering, jaggies on the yard lines. Other than that, PQ is good. Stadium lighting makes whites extra bright but not enough to wash out the picture.

homcom
09-28-08, 03:39 PM
one of the best PQ games this year on WACH. However, why is Fox using this TERRIBLE reply camera from above the stadium when showing some plays. Uggh...Its like I hooked my dad's 20-year old camcorder to my HDTV...eww

The coaches cam is just a feed to FOX, they do not operate that camera. Some of the higher level broadcasts will put their own camera in that place as well, but typically it does not get much use so it is more economical to use the feed.

listerone
09-28-08, 04:16 PM
Arizona @ Jets on WFXT-DT (Boston) and Massachusetts Fios (my first weekend with Fios).Not at all impressed by PQ.Watching Denver @ Chiefs today the PQ is breathtaking.Maybe it's because it's bright and sunny in KC and dark and cloudy in Jersey.

homcom
09-28-08, 04:27 PM
Late game on FOX looks nice via Comcast from WJBK in Detroit.

guffy1
09-28-08, 05:18 PM
Arizona @ Jets on WFXT-DT (Boston) and Massachusetts Fios (my first weekend with Fios).Not at all impressed by PQ.Watching Denver @ Chiefs today the PQ is breathtaking.Maybe it's because it's bright and sunny in KC and dark and cloudy in Jersey.

Sounds alot more like the difference between FOX and CBS to me.

Arizona Jets is a Fox game. Den KC a CBS game.

CBS is known to consistently have better HD PQ then FOX.

URFloorMatt
09-28-08, 05:28 PM
Cowboys/Redskins looks very good on WAHU via Comcast Charlottesville. The first game, Packers/Bucs, looked like garbage.

This seems to be pretty common from Fox. One or two games per week are up to par with CBS. Everything else looks only barely HD.

ncxcstud
09-28-08, 05:35 PM
I think the WAS-DAL game looks good. However, I hate that they keep having to switch to SD before and after highlights...

Does anyone know if and when that'll change?

Cowchip
09-28-08, 05:41 PM
No HD in Minneapolis.

paule123
09-28-08, 06:34 PM
Getting severe breakups Redskins/Cowboys with about 3 minutes left in the 3rd.

WJW-DT Cleveland via D*.

Jeremy W
09-28-08, 07:06 PM
Fox is still using SD telestrators?

xlr231
09-28-08, 07:51 PM
Why does the OT look so bad? Looks like SD colorspace and resolution but it is still in 16:9. The highlights of the GB/TB game look horrible compared to how it looked earlier live on the same channel. It is soft, blurry, and had bad macroblocking, which I have never seen on Fox before.

Woodrow
09-28-08, 07:52 PM
Getting severe breakups Redskins/Cowboys that would be the cowboy defense

paule123
09-28-08, 07:55 PM
Why does the OT look so bad? Looks like SD colorspace and resolution but it is still in 16:9. The highlights of the GB/TB game look horrible compared to how it looked earlier live on the same channel. It is soft, blurry, and had bad macroblocking, which I have never seen on Fox before.

The OT is from the Fox studio, and everything from the studio is not HD, it's 480p.

homcom
09-28-08, 08:06 PM
The OT is from the Fox studio, and everything from the studio is not HD, it's 480p.

The studio, like all FOX SD widescreen content is produced as 480i, then upconverted to 720p.

It is not 480p.

sansri88
09-28-08, 08:44 PM
The Jets game did not look good at all...

mikepier
09-28-08, 09:32 PM
WNYW-DT NY OTA

ARI/NYJ looked good in close-up shots, but looked soft in the wide shots.
WAS/DAL looked a little better