[Ken H]

Please place all related comments here, and don't forget to mention your source and provider! Cities, station call letters, DBS, cableco, etc.


Tonight's FOX ACLS HDTV game:

7:30pm ET

New York Yankees @ Boston Red Sox


Yankees up in series, 3-0.

 

[Ken H]

Pre-game from Fenway is up in HD & 5.1.

 

[rkunces]

you mean fenway? For pregram still noticing a little fading in the sound on D* in New York here.

 

[Ken H]

Quote:

Originally posted by rkunces you mean fenway?

Yes, thanks for the correction, I edited my post.

 

[rkunces]

Dont worry with all the problems Fox has had in their MLB broadcasts for all we know it is in Yankee stadium.

 

[icemannyr]

WNYW-DT Cablevision


The video from camrea behind home plate is still bad.

Why cant FOX run a new line to the camera?

 

[Johnny5.1]

Lookin superb again OTA Los Angeles.

 

[icemannyr]

That plane or blimp hum is very annoying.

I know FOX likes to use alot of mic's but it's so loud in the background it almost better if they turned some of them off.

As someone else said the background noise gets louder after the pitch is thrown like someone is turning a mic up.

 

[lowmazda]

Quote:

Originally posted by icemannyr WNYW-DT Cablevision The video from camrea behind home plate is still bad. Why cant FOX run a new line to the camrea?

Why is it SD?

 

[icemannyr]

Could it be SD wide screen? Considering how much they use that camera shot I wonder why it could not be fixed? It still has interference lines all over the video.
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[BreakStuff]

Quote:

Originally posted by icemannyr That plane or blimp hum is very annoying.

You sure got that right, that noise is considerably loud and annoying. Makes me want to disable tv audio and listen to the game being broadcast on radio.

 

[Ken H]

From sources that know, the cameras used by FOX for this series are using triax, which is copper based camera cable. The particular triax at Fenway is old and not in the best of shape. The result is electrical interference in the picture from some cameras.

 

[paulr]

I'm watching WUPW Toledo on Buckeye Cable, and it doesn't even look like the broadcast is in HD because they're using the diamond-cam so much! There's also a lot of fuzz when they cut to a closeup of the pitcher. I caught the last few minutes of the Cards-Astros game on the same station and it had excellent PQ all round. (For better or worse, I can't see what it looks like in SD on D* because my TiVo is taping two different Richard Gere movies, go figure

 

[icemannyr]

Thanks Ken, that explains it.


Now if the blimp could just fly somewhere else

 

[PerfectCr]

Looks great here in Orlando on Bright House Networks. Yeah the blimp sucks.


Sometimes my received will not say "Digital", it will goto PLII if I switch channels and come back. If I cycle the power on the recevier THEN it recognizes the DD 5.1. Anyone else experience this?

 

[scottte]

For whatever its worth, and I understand everyone will have their own opinion on it, but the blimp noise is kinda cool to me as I was at the "whos your daddy" game in NY and the blimp noise you hear is just like what I heard sitting one row from the top of Yankee Stadium. Again, I agree that most will not like it, but to me it makes me feel like I am back at the stadium.


scottte

 

[Joseph S]

Quote:

From sources that know, the cameras used by FOX for this series are using triax, which is copper based camera cable. The particular triax at Fenway is old and not in the best of shape. The result is electrical interference in the picture from some cameras.

Not buying it. We don't see this with NESN, INHD, or ESPNHD. It's Fox's crappy SD widescreen camera.

 

[bgall]

I agree, if the signal's digital, how could there be an AC hum? Or do such situations still exist on digital?

 

[lee eiseman]

Can we tell Fox that there are far to many closeups for HDTV resolution?


At least for their better cameras, long shots and medium shots without so much cutting would yield a better looking production.

 

[icemannyr]

Could it be that the network and local ads are not DD 5.1 so the audio switches to DD 2.0?