A Expiriment with HD Footie

[savenosouls]

Today - I just conducted an experiment as the footie kicked of in HD today - switched between the BBC 1 broadcast & the BBC HD transmission. The difference is quite noticable. I have a 4 year old pioneer 43" plasma (one of the 1st with an hdmi slot) and never really new how good the TV is until I got a v+ box. Just one complaint - no digital surround sound on the footie - that would just complete the experience.

The footie is what HD was invented for - Anyone have any comment?

[dmc5007]

I thought it looked great, it wasn't till I watched the 2nd half on SD TV that I really started to notice the difference. I do wish we had more sport in HD, I noticed the Masters is on BBC HD next week, but I hope that we can realistically look forward to ITV, FIVE, Setanta and C4 HD channels and the free sport that would bring.

Shame the game wasn't upto the same standard!

[ozsat]

The BBC-HD picture for the FA semi was very poor compared to their normal live HD standard.

[demented]

Sadly I've had little experience of High Def sports. I've seen a few matches on Sky Sports 1 in standard (shot in HD) and was impressed by the standard, likewise with some of the cricket. I'm not a rugby fan but watched about 10 mins of some of the matches on BBC HD and BBC1 out of interest on a mates Sky HD box. BBC1 was shockingly poor and rugby on BBC HD was a vast improvement.

Yesterday's match picture-wise was disappointing. The picture was not crisp, a few extra details were visible like the stripes on WBA shirts and the crowd looked better but disappointing. TBH the picture on SS1 SD Barnsley v Cardiff looks better .