Regardless of what you think about thier "Stretch-O" and "Popups", I've got to hand it to these guys, they manage to get the signal out of the truck and onto our sets in one piece... They showed they could do it for baseball and thier getting it done for hoops as well.

[Marv, however is an entirely different matter...]

via Comcast, Portland.

Watched a few minutes before switching th House, looked good. Not the crap that they were putting out last year with horrible blocking and breakups

Looks awesome! I love TNT's and TBS's sports HD broadcasts.

The popups is something I despise to the very end. As if commercials weren't enough. They show the commercial and then run a pop-up of the same thing in the same segment. They run this crap during LIVE sporting events. What a damn joke. "The Closer" is a fine example of this tragedy. TNT is not the only culprit. It is a disgusting trend.
I think it epitomizes the dollar lust and lack of care for customer satisfaction by continually running these interuptions.
Shame on all networks for this newfound way of solicitation.

You guys that say it looks good, who is your provider. I'm watching on E* and it is bad. Pretty much like last year and looks a lot like Sunday Night Football on NBC, lots of blocking and artifacts.

Looks good on Comcast, although not as good as baseball on TBS.

Go Lakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watching on TWC in NYC.

Both games have looked great. no issues noticed. (nothing like NBC)

If it looks like crap - its likely your provider (my TWC keeps TNT 'flowing' nicely - only 1 other HD channel on the frequency - unlike most of the cable HD channels - 3 stations shoved in to 1 frequency)

Go Lakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1

It still amazes me that TNT, a channel that commits the ultimate HD channel sin of stretch-o-vision, is the only one that ponies up the cash for a separate HD score bug. It's so nice watching games on TNT, because the bug isn't taking up the whole top or bottom, and it's not in the 4:3 area. It's tucked away nicely into the bottom right corner, where it belongs.

Sucks for ESPN-SD highlights, but it's great for HD viewers.

I was watching via D*, which really surprised me because its still an MPEG2 stream. Had some blocking and break ups in the Laker game, but i'm fairly sure it was on the D* side and not TNT, as I was seeing the same thing on ESPN HD.

Watched the Rockets-Lakers game and thought the video was top quality on my Comcast connection. Wonderful detail and no breakups. The only thing I wish is that the announcers would focus more on the game and less on the Kobe soap opera.

Watched parts of both games last night on TWC. Looked good for the most part. At least they got rid of that one messed up camera from last season that was used for closeups and horribly pixellated anytime the camera panned around.

I was watching via D*, which really surprised me because its still an MPEG2 stream. Had some blocking and break ups in the Laker game, but i'm fairly sure it was on the D* side and not TNT, as I was seeing the same thing on ESPN HD.

I also watched via DirecTV and thought things looked better than the average TNT game last year.

I don't usually watch anything on TNT due to their ridiculous stretching and on-screen promos but since it was the Blazers last night I had no choice. Via Comcast, which usually shows a bit of over compression here in PDX, the game looked pretty bad IMO. If that was a good effort for TNT, it must usually look really bad...


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