View Full Version : ABC / ESPN College Football in HD, Nov. 22


homcom
11-22-08, 10:38 AM
The ESPN family of networks has the following games in HD today:
Please post which game you are viewing, what channel, your location, and how you are viewing the game (OTA, Cable, Sat).

Noon ET
Michigan at Ohio State ABC HD (ESPN (SD) or non-ABC local stations in some markets)
West Virginia at Louisville ESPN HD
Indiana at Purdue ESPN2 HD

2:30 ET
Jackson State at Alcorn State ESPNU HD

3:30 ET ABC Coverage Map (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=124796&d=1227194669)
Michigan State at Penn State ABC HD (ESPN SD reverse mirror)
Boston College at Wake Forest ABC HD (ESPN HD reverse mirror)
Stanford at California ABC (SD Only)

Boston College at Wake Forest and Michigan State at Penn State are the reverse mirror games. Michigan State at Penn State will be seen on ESPN in areas where the ABC station is showing one of the other two games, ESPN will be SD only. Boston College at Wake Forest will be seen on ESPN SD and HD in the areas where ABC is showing Boston College at Wake Forest. The reverse mirror was originally scheduled for ESPN2, it was moved to ESPN as of Thursday

4 ET
Boise State at Nevada ESPN2 (SD Widescreen)

5:30 ET
Duke at Virginia Tech ESPNU HD

7:15 ET
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati ESPN2 HD

7:45 ET
Florida State at Maryland ESPN HD

8 ET
Texas Tech at Oklahoma ABC HD

Ryan21
11-22-08, 10:54 AM
I am pretty sure Stanford-Cal will be shot in HD. Last week when the Maryland- North Carolina game was over I was switched to Oregon State- California and it was in HD, and I have seen games that were said not to be in HD on ABC, shown in HD on Sportscenter.

homcom
11-22-08, 11:12 AM
I am pretty sure Stanford-Cal will be shot in HD. Last week when the Maryland- North Carolina game was over I was switched to Oregon State- California and it was in HD, and I have seen games that were said not to be in HD on ABC, shown in HD on Sportscenter.
Yes, the ABC games have been produced in HD all year long. The limitation with ABC is the number of HD feeds they can output at once.

homcom
11-22-08, 12:01 PM
Michigan vs. Ohio State up on ABC in HDTV. Watching on WXYZ in Detroit via Comcast.

E-A-G-L-E-S
11-22-08, 12:07 PM
WTF?!

Louisville at WVU?!?!
Seriously!?!?
Does anyone care about that game?!?!?

Not OSU vs UM ?!?!?

I HATE ESPN!

redwings1914
11-22-08, 12:21 PM
OTA here in Kalamazoo at Western Michigan, WOTV...Picture quality is abysmal as always with ABC.

homcom
11-22-08, 01:00 PM
WTF?!

Louisville at WVU?!?!
Seriously!?!?
Does anyone care about that game?!?!?

Not OSU vs UM ?!?!?

I HATE ESPN!

I assume you are in the Philly market, which means the game will be on ESPN for you and not ABC. If you have D*, the game should be on the ESPN alternate channel. It will not be in HD since it is alternate programming for ESPN.

homcom
11-22-08, 01:01 PM
Michigan vs. Ohio State looks good on WXYZ in Detroit via Comast.

E-A-G-L-E-S
11-22-08, 01:54 PM
Thanks homcom, I'm suprised Louisville-WVU is considered "Philly Market" though....The Big East is not cared about here for football....all PSU.
I actually called the Philly ABC studio and I was told that they were working on it and that they were told OSU/UM would be the primetime game and not the crappy Louisville-WVU.

homcom
11-22-08, 02:08 PM
Thanks homcom, I'm suprised Louisville-WVU is considered "Philly Market" though....The Big East is not cared about here for football....all PSU.
I actually called the Philly ABC studio and I was told that they were working on it and that they were told OSU/UM would be the primetime game and not the crappy Louisville-WVU.

Louisville-WVU is the national ESPN game, this is not a reverse mirror like the 3:30 slot. The only reason the UM/OSU game is on ESPN is because the local Philly ABC station had High school football and children programming.

E-A-G-L-E-S
11-22-08, 02:19 PM
ESPN chose that game as their national game, roflmao....that's a horrible call.
I bet Harvard - Yale would get better ratings and more interest, along with a few others like OSU-UM.

Thanks for your help!

rotohead
11-22-08, 02:24 PM
The audio level changes in the MI/OhioSt game is as bad as I've ever heard it. Ridiculous...game audio is extremely low, then a ABC promo comes on and blows out the speakers. Ad's and other audio is every level in between. What a joke. Unwatchable.

homcom
11-22-08, 02:31 PM
ESPN chose that game as their national game, roflmao....that's a horrible call.
I bet Harvard - Yale would get better ratings and more interest, along with a few others like OSU-UM.

Thanks for your help!

OSU-UM is a national game on ABC. Don't blame ESPN for your local ABC station showing high school football instead of the O OSU-UM game. ESPN even added the UM/OSU game as alternate programming in Philly so Philly viewers could see the game.

E-A-G-L-E-S
11-22-08, 03:08 PM
Then what I said previously to ABC-Philadelphia and doubly so since the guy straight lied to me when he said, "We had an agreement to show OSU-UM".


And what made Tressel say that he is happy for his team for getting a piece of the big ten title....if PSU wins today we are both one loss but we beat them at their place....so OSU gets nothing, correct?

steverobertson
11-22-08, 03:35 PM
WTF No Penn St game here in Boston on ESPN??? This is on D*

E-A-G-L-E-S
11-22-08, 03:42 PM
MSU @ PSU

PQ is very good/superb with little to no artifacting and no swimming grass.(perhaps hidden by the snow)

D*
Allentown, PA
WPVI-Philadelphia, PA

coyoteaz
11-22-08, 03:45 PM
Penn State game looks quite good here, WFAA Dallas via FiOS. This is one of the best games I've seen from WFAA.

Lkr
11-22-08, 03:52 PM
MSU/PSU looks alright at the moment. It started out superb, but now it is decent.

OTA WFTV Orlando FL

billyrayvalentin
11-22-08, 04:10 PM
What the hell happened to the reverse mirror. ESPN is blacked out in Greenville SC also for Penn State MSU on D*

Who do we complain too, to get this fixed.

Mike

steverobertson
11-22-08, 04:27 PM
What the hell happened to the reverse mirror. ESPN is blacked out in Greenville SC also for Penn State MSU on D*

Who do we complain too, to get this fixed.

Mike

I called D* it was like talking to a wall

homcom
11-22-08, 05:09 PM
have you tried looking at the ESPN alternate channel for the MSU/PSU. The regular ESPN channel should be blacked out for those who are supposed to get the MSU/PSU game on ESPN.

homcom
11-22-08, 05:14 PM
Nice work by ESPN and KTVB to present at least an SD Widescreen feed of the Boise State/Nevada game.

steverobertson
11-22-08, 05:27 PM
have you tried looking at the ESPN alternate channel for the MSU/PSU. The regular ESPN channel should be blacked out for those who are supposed to get the MSU/PSU game on ESPN.

Thanks I have that channel

steverobertson
11-22-08, 05:27 PM
Nice work by ESPN and KTVB to present at least an SD Widescreen feed of the Boise State/Nevada game.

Great isn't it

ccotenj
11-22-08, 08:18 PM
tt/ou...

initial pq quite good... sharp, both on main cams and on close-ups... good color, good grass, no pixelation... no messy reds... typical espn/abc good stuff...

aq... other than brent, adequate...

fios, south jersey...

ccotenj
11-22-08, 08:19 PM
Great isn't it

yea, and considering it was widescreen sd, it really wasn't all that bad... turned out to be a much better game than it looked like it was going to be in the first half too...

BdoUK
11-22-08, 08:30 PM
TT/OU looks horrible in Lexington, KY. The affiliate here suffers from "glaucoma vision" where the picture gets blurry during fast action. Our CBS affiliate here suffers from the same problem.

mx6bfast
11-22-08, 08:35 PM
Anyones digital feed starting acting up since the last commercial break? the screen has huge rows of blocks and the audio stutters. SD is fine.

Nevermind, fixed right after I posted this.

It's back right after I posted the update. I give up.

Update: Went to watch more of the FSU game and the signal is completely out now. Local issue.

ccotenj
11-22-08, 08:37 PM
nope, all good here...

edit: oops... didn't take 'em long to fix it at least... :)

thestaton
11-22-08, 08:59 PM
TT/OU looks horrible in Lexington, KY. The affiliate here suffers from "glaucoma vision" where the picture gets blurry during fast action. Our CBS affiliate here suffers from the same problem.

I hear you. I'm watching via OTA and this is pathetic.

ccotenj
11-22-08, 09:07 PM
drag... :(

still good here... tt better score on this drive, or this could get ugly...

ccotenj
11-22-08, 09:17 PM
it has officially begun getting ugly.... geez, i was really hoping for a good game tonight... :(

homcom
11-22-08, 09:38 PM
I know it is not always possible, because of stadium mounting locations, but it is very cool how ABC is taking Skycam behind and around the goalposts at Oklahoma.

rustycruiser
11-22-08, 09:51 PM
Talk about getting spanked on national television. Ouch.

boswd
11-22-08, 10:27 PM
Despite the score, the Texas Tech / Ok. game ( Comcast Plymouth Mass.) is just jaw dropping. IMHO the Sat. night ABC games are the best PQ in all of football, at least what I'm getting through Comcast. NBC Sunday Night football is right there and CBS is great as well. But ABC's Sat. Night games week in week out have just been jaw dropping great here south of Boston.

ABCTV99
11-23-08, 09:48 AM
Despite the score, the Texas Tech / Ok. game ( Comcast Plymouth Mass.) is just jaw dropping. IMHO the Sat. night ABC games are the best PQ in all of football, at least what I'm getting through Comcast. NBC Sunday Night football is right there and CBS is great as well. But ABC's Sat. Night games week in week out have just been jaw dropping great here south of Boston.

It looks good but they really push the chroma IMO, that grass last night was screaming green. The skycam stuff was very cool though. OU appears to have very good lighting and only on four towers at each corner, contrast with the Maryland/FSu game which looked like a high school.