Sunday Ticket is passing through Packer game in Fox Widescreen

[gobble]

Directv is passing through the Packer game in widescreen on channel 715.  Has anyone else noticed this?  The commercials have sidebars.

[This message has been edited by gobble (edited 11-24-2002).]

[gobble]

Well it was fun while it lasted.  10 minutes into the game the screen flickers and I now have sidebars.  Fox is such a piece of sh**.

[Tom Sielicki]

Well it is one thing not to broadcast with enough power.  It is another to not know how to work a station.  Fox 6 is a joke.  The game is supposed to be widescreen and it starts out with black bars on the sides 4:3 format.  It is however just not decompressed.  All the players are taller.  I call the station and ask them to fix it.  Two minutes later the side black bars double in size.  I have never seen this before.  Everyone now is really squeezed. Warren Sapp looks like Donald Driver.   I call them again and they say they are working on it.  Well halfway through the first quarter they finally get it fixed.  They still have problems with sound and the occasional black screen.   When the widescreen is functioning it does look pretty good (compared to the ugly analog).  They need to get their act together before they go full power.  

[veyj]

Gobble, I never thought to look.  My usual Sunday setup has the widescreen TV split  with 1 game from NFL ticket and the other from OTA.  I switch the NFL ticket view to SD (SVideo 1) for OAR and two evenly sized screens.  So I would never notice if/when Fox or DirecTV go to widescreen.

This brings up many questions.

1. Does FOX have the necessary cameras at all of their games to do widescreen?  I seem to remember they only did one "Game of the Week."

2. Does FOX pass this Widescreen game/s to DirecTV?  They obviously must since Gobble witnessed it for 10 minutes.

3. Does DirecTV use more bandwith to send this Widescreen signal and would they?

4. Does DirecTV get 2 feeds from FOX (Widescreen & NonWS) or can DirecTV convert the Widescreen feed?  Who was responsible for the switch that Gobble witnessed (FOX or DirecTV)?  Certainly this had nothing to do with any local feed.

5. Anyone have a link to find out which FOX game is Widescreen (Game of the Week)?

TIA John

[Gregg Lengling]

Fox has stated in the past that their cameras are capable of 16:9 and I've heard that most TV cameras are.

Not sure how Directv gets their feeds, their contract is directly with the NFL>