Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 26, 2005
High Definition

I've been upset with DirecTV most of this baseball season. I have a high definition TV, and hoped that DirecTV would carry MLB Extra Innings game in HD, just like they did with the football package. I was very happy one day in April when I saw an HD game listed in the on screen program guide. However, when I tried to watch it, I was told the game was not available in my area.

I made a number of calls to their support line to ask this basic question; if I'm paying for MLB Extra Innings and the HD package, why can't I see games in HD? On about the fourth call a supervisor told me that the HD feeds were from the RSNs (Regional Sports Network), so you had to be in the proper area to get the broadcasts. This made no sense to me, since the channel name was listed as MLB HD, not YES or Fox Rocky Mountain. But I gave up at that point, figuring the customer service people didn't know what they were talking about.

And it turns out I'm right. Suddenly, these games are now available in HD! I didn't get an announcement or an e-mail, I just looked yesterday and there was a game! So tonight, I turned on channel 94 at 7 PM, and sure enough, the Yankees are playing the Twins in glorious high definition. Now, we need to get them to show more than one or two games a night.

Update: They just did a close up or Randy Johnson that filled the whole wide screen. He's even scarier in high def.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:05 PM | Broadcasts | TrackBack (0)
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Since making the HD switch, I no longer can bear to watch SD at all, sports or otherwise.

Meanwhile, much as baseball looks great in HD, I've yet to see a broadcast that is as vivid as an NFL broadcast in HD or as good as NASCAR in HD, which, at least on my TV, has the most vivid picture of all the sports. (I don't at all consider myself a NASCAR fan, but when I see it in HD, my jaw drops and I find myself unable to turn away.)

Not sure why this is. Type of camera? Lighting? Or maybe I'm just imagining it?

Posted by: Edw. at July 27, 2005 06:03 AM
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