NCAA Men's Basketball Division I Championship Tournament
Live on CBS HD
1PM ET
1080i and DD 5.1

Today's Games
1:00 PM Window (National)
1:05 PM 6 UCLA vs. 3 Villanova

3:20 PM Window (Regional)
3:20 PM 10 Maryland vs. 2 Memphis
3:35 PM 9 Texas A&M vs. 1 Connecticut

5:40 PM Window (Regional)
5:40 PM 5 Purdue vs. 4 Washington
5:45 PM 8 LSU vs. 1 North Carolina
5:50 PM 10 Michigan vs. 2 Oklahoma

8:10 PM Window
8:10 PM 12 Western Kentucky vs. 4 Gonzaga
8:15 PM 7 Texas vs. 2 Duke

All times eastern, game times for second game in a session are approximate depending on length of the first game in the session at that particular venue.

Please post what game your watching, along with your location, and source (cable, sat, OTA, MMOD via D*).

Thank you and enjoy the madness.

do they have regional maps somewhere showing which game is broadcast where?

UCLA vs. Villanova looks great on WWJ in Detroit via Comcast.

San Francisco - Comcast - KPIX, UCLA/Vill, no center channel dialog, otherwise it's fine. In fact, I rather like it without the announcers. :)

do they have regional maps somewhere showing which game is broadcast where?
Not for public access. Check the local listings for your area.

UCLA vs. Villanova looks great on WWJ in Detroit via Comcast.

Yup.

DirecTV's HD feed on KPIX 5 in the Bay Area has been spotty throughout the tournament. It appears to be arena-specific. Lots of pixelation from the arena in Philadelphia during today's Nova-UCLA game - almost looks like a youtube video. Maryland-Memphis looks great from Kansas City.

Detroit getting a look in Maryland/Memphis; not so good for the Terps. I know someone that won't be happy about that....

Looks and sounds great via WWJ-DT CBS O&O (no subchannels) Comcast Detroit.

Anyone having picture issues with the UNC/LSU game? Mine keeps going in and out.

I get that CBS can't do halftime highlights in HD for whatever reason, but why do the SD highlights look like they've been pulled from VHS recordings posted on YouTube? The PQ is jarringly horrible.

I'm not getting rear 5.1 surrounds on WHIO-DT, but its coming in with full 5.1 fine on WBNS-DT.

If CBS only has two games of the end of tonight's coverage, why not start one 15 to 20min after the other so you don't have two games finishing at almost the same time?

If CBS only has two games of the end of tonight's coverage, why not start one 15 to 20min after the other so you don't have two games finishing at almost the same time?Because both games were the 2nd game at their site. The 2nd game is scheduled appx 30 after the first is completed.

No seed lower than a "5" advancing to the Sweet 16 so far. I suppose that's a feather for the cap of the Selection Committee. (Although they should be drawn-and-quartered for including Arizona, based on their regular-season performance.)

(Although they should be drawn-and-quartered for including Arizona, based on their regular-season performance.)I'm not sure the inclusion of Arizona was based on their performance as much as their potential and marketability. Nonetheless, you can't deny that they could be a very tough "out" and very well "could" beat the odds and win the whole thing if things fall their way. I've seen about 10 of their games this year (they're televised quite a bit over here on the west coast) and when they're hitting on all cylinders they're about as good as any other team hitting on all of theirs.

Whether through Comcast or over-the-air, I've noticed a great degradation of clarity in the picture in the last few years.

Think of the primary all-court panning camera located midcourt some 20 or 30 rows up. When they frame to the half-court shot, I can no longer make out the names on players jerseys. However, I distinctly remember being blown away by HiDef back in around 2002 or so (when they left the cameras on instead of breaking away for commercials during timeouts), primarily because I could read the names on the backs of the jerseys on those same shots (half-court frame).

Anybody else noticing that?

BTW, some of the shots from some of the under-the-basket cameras are horrendously fuzzy. I've seen shots of cheerleaders faces where you couldn't even make out the logos stenciled on their cheeks!

Probably has a lot to do with KIRO's throwing away 4Mb/s on the RTN subchannel. High-detail, high-motion content like basketball really needs all the bitrate available in an ATSC broadcast (more definitely wouldn't hurt either), and significant decreases in available bitrate can and do lead to significant degradation in quality. CBS's infrastructure is second to none in terms of the quality that makes it to the local station, but what the station does with it from there varies widely.

Probably has a lot to do with KIRO's throwing away 4Mb/s on the RTN subchannel. Bing!


CBS's infrastructure is second to none in terms of the quality that makes it to the local station, but what the station does with it from there varies widely.Bing!

Probably has a lot to do with KIRO's throwing away 4Mb/s on the RTN subchannel. High-detail, high-motion content like basketball really needs all the bitrate available in an ATSC broadcast (more definitely wouldn't hurt either), and significant decreases in available bitrate can and do lead to significant degradation in quality. CBS's infrastructure is second to none in terms of the quality that makes it to the local station, but what the station does with it from there varies widely.Okay, if I'm the only one noticing it, I guess I just have to live with it, eh? It's not like I can go to the competition.

Okay, if I'm the only one noticing it, I guess I just have to live with it, eh? It's not like I can go to the competition.

Tomorrow during business hours, call the station GM. Tell him your concerns.

KIRO used to waste 5Mb/s on a subchannel that showed video from a camera at SeaTac. Their history with regards to putting out a quality HD product is not good. A phone call won't hurt, but it's not likely to accomplish anything either :(.

DirecTV's HD feed on KPIX 5 in the Bay Area has been spotty throughout the tournament. It appears to be arena-specific. Lots of pixelation from the arena in Philadelphia during today's Nova-UCLA game - almost looks like a youtube video. Maryland-Memphis looks great from Kansas City.

I've noticed the same problem. Not sure if it's fault of CBS, KPIX, or DirecTV?