I read the other post about this subject and thought I'd start a new thread for people to post particulars about the picture quality of the game. I watched via CBS-HD on Dish Network. I have included some simulated images based on the screen captures taken by Larry H. at http://members.home.net/larryh791/ .
First, primarily at the start of the game, there was this strange out-of-focus corner of the image. Very odd indeed.
http://www.spudland.com/10262001-focus.jpg
Second, there was a noticable "red" bleeding effect on the right side of the screen as well on the left. I believe that this could be because of a misaligned CCD. The cameras they use are HDCAMs with three CCD elements. I am guessing that, for the main game camera, the red element got knocked out of place (perhaps the camera was dropped?). Perhaps they smacked the camera around a bit to correct the focusing problem!
http://www.spudland.com/10262001-red.jpg
Thirdly, there was way too much edge enhancement or something on the same cameras used in the angles above. I don't know if it was edge enhancement or what, I don't think anybody at CBS would put edge enhancement on HD...
Last of all, I must comment that all other cameras used (i.e. cameras that were not overlooking the field) seemed to look just great! No weird EE effects or shimmer, no red bleeding, all in focus. Almost as good as the "It's All Here" CBS-HD promo spots (that look positively outstanding)!
Remember these aren't complaints. Just observations. Hopefully the production company will get their stuff fixed by next weekend!
-- Robert
First, primarily at the start of the game, there was this strange out-of-focus corner of the image. Very odd indeed.
http://www.spudland.com/10262001-focus.jpg
Second, there was a noticable "red" bleeding effect on the right side of the screen as well on the left. I believe that this could be because of a misaligned CCD. The cameras they use are HDCAMs with three CCD elements. I am guessing that, for the main game camera, the red element got knocked out of place (perhaps the camera was dropped?). Perhaps they smacked the camera around a bit to correct the focusing problem!
http://www.spudland.com/10262001-red.jpg
Thirdly, there was way too much edge enhancement or something on the same cameras used in the angles above. I don't know if it was edge enhancement or what, I don't think anybody at CBS would put edge enhancement on HD...
Last of all, I must comment that all other cameras used (i.e. cameras that were not overlooking the field) seemed to look just great! No weird EE effects or shimmer, no red bleeding, all in focus. Almost as good as the "It's All Here" CBS-HD promo spots (that look positively outstanding)!
Remember these aren't complaints. Just observations. Hopefully the production company will get their stuff fixed by next weekend!
-- Robert