Brewers at Houston in HD... not

[vegasvic]

It's interesting that the Monday and Tuesday games against the Pirates this week are not in HD in Milwaukee but are in HD in Pittsburgh, which is also FSN.  So the equipment is at Miller Park but only one city gets the HD feed.

[LoadStar]

I don't know anything about the engineering at these games. That said, despite both broadcast partners being FSN "affiliates," I would imagine that the games are pretty much produced completely separately... cameras, trucks, engineering teams, the works.

My suspicion is that it's not so much the equipment at game site - it's either Master Control at FOX Broadcast Center (or wherever the MC is for FSN), or it's the satellite time. Either way, my guess is that they don't yet have the available facilities to broadcast every game in HD.

ETA: That would likely also explain why they deactivate FS Wisconsin HD (channel 531 on TWC) when it isn't broadcasting HD programming - they don't have the capacity to be able to keep it going 24/7.

[Jack 1000]

I don't know anything about the engineering at these games. That said, despite both broadcast partners being FSN "affiliates," I would imagine that the games are pretty much produced completely separately... cameras, trucks, engineering teams, the works.

My suspicion is that it's not so much the equipment at game site - it's either Master Control at FOX Broadcast Center (or wherever the MC is for FSN), or it's the satellite time. Either way, my guess is that they don't yet have the available facilities to broadcast every game in HD.

ETA: That would likely also explain why they deactivate FS Wisconsin HD (channel 531 on TWC) when it isn't broadcasting HD programming - they don't have the capacity to be able to keep it going 24/7.

That makes sense, Loadstar, in addition to what you said above, it could also be for financial reasons, especially in reasoning why they can't keep it going 24x7.

Jack

[vegasvic]

I don't know how it works for TWC or Charter or Dish but with DirecTV you get all of the FSN's around the country so it doesn't matter if FSN-WI is 24/7 as you can watch the other channels to get the FSN programming if you wish.