[Todd]

I'm watching the IRL race on VERSUS tonight and the video quality is an absolute joke. Past races I've seen don't look great, but today's race is awful. I've seen it on both Cox cable and on DirecTV.

 

[jamieva]

I have Fios and it was horrible on there too.

 

[hammerdwn]

Dish Network is the same, so it seems to be a problem with VS. When they air on ABC they look WAY better.

 

[Ken H]

Looked bad on Comcast.

 

[malaugh]

Looked awful on TWC also. The strange thing was the in-car cameras looked OK. But the racetrack shots were shimmering really bad and the color was washed out

 

[commodore_dude]

Looked like it was shot on a webcam and sent over dialup...

 

[Todd]



Quote:
Originally Posted by commodore_dude /forum/post/16896038


Looked like it was shot on a webcam and sent over dialup...

Or maybe ISDN.

 

[jamieva]

They replayed the race this afternoon, same bad quality.

 

[fishman23]

Just watched the race, absolutely horrible quality. It pretty much hurt my eyes to watch it. It looked like a game with no anti-aliasing.

 

[MRM4]

With the Cup race being rained out, today was the first time I had a chance to catch an IRL race on Vs. The PQ was pretty bad. Looked real grainy. One good thing about the broadcast was hearing Bob Jenkins over the airwaves again. He needs to be back doing NASCAR.

 

[Xylon]

Both E* and D* at 6 mbps mpeg-4. The battle for the most "HD" channels that can be crammed in a single transpoder. No end in sight.


6 mbps today. 1 mbps tomorrow.



F****** pathetic.

 

[hammerdwn]

^^ What about FIOS & Cable users reporting the same poor PQ on VS?


BTW, I can see that just in the past year, with all the new HD channel additions, the PQ on E* has drastically gotten worse on all HD channels. Watching sports hurts my eyes. Even my favorite channel NatGeo looks bad most of the time.

 

[slowbiscuit]

Looks good to me on a 42" plasma with Comcast in the ATL. A little more macroblocking than I would like, but nice and sharp images with nothing other than normal grain to me.

 

[Brew]

I was watching qualifying from Sonoma yesterday, and the amount of pixelation and macroblocking was absolutely NUTS.


It was absolutely horrible. I don't think the rest of the VERSUS productions look this bad, it just seemed to be for the IRL stuff.


It seems like the uplink from Indy Productions to VERSUS is really low bitrate or something. Weird.

 

[mp3trojan]

Is this not something new? Remember the NHL Playoffs on VS. compared to NBC even on D*. OTA was greatness but even the MPEG4 LIL PQ was like night and day. VS. PQ was so horrible with the scan lines and all< i had to force the STB to 720p just to make it watchable.

 

[michael1248]

The race itself looked OK to me via DirecTV. Actually it looked very good.

 

[MRM4]

DirecTV will be dropping Versus.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,4477246.story

 

[hammerdwn]



Quote:
Originally Posted by michael1248 /forum/post/17053371


The race itself looked OK to me via DirecTV. Actually it looked very good.

Watching on the E* dvr now, looks the same UGLY to me. Jaggies, moire patterns in fine detail, severe compression macroblocking on fast motion or scene fades, clay faces and moving solids.


Too bad no one is listening at VS, suspect it will not be fixed.

 

[jamieva]

It was not as bad as Edmonton, but it still was noticeably worse then when ESPN covered their races earlier in the summer.