Confusion on Monday Night Football

[MarkS]

It was 4:3 for me too.  Wonder why some are recieving it in 16:9 but not all of us?  I have a DTC-100 and I get all of the other widescreen and HD transmissions in 16:9.

I appreciate any input on this as I'm a relative newbie to HD.

Mark

[Tom Snyder]

ABC hasn't done MNF in 16:9 HD for a couple years now, and it isn't in HD or 16:9 SD this year either.

If it was in 16:9, then the station was stretching it, something I've heard that a few stations have done.

[StarvingForHDTV]

I hope I didn't confuse anyone.  The football game was sent to me as 720p with a 4:3 picture surrounded by built in black bars on the sides.  I had my set top box convert the 720p signal to 480p, and crop the black sidebars from my view.  That way the image filled my 16:9 screen.

Starving

[Blitzman]

Will we ever see the NFL in HD??  I can't believe that I see horse races, I see College Football, I see the NHL, I see MLB, I see the olympics in HD, but the biggest sport in the US, the NFL is not in HD.  I know it was it was in HD a few years back(MNF), but how many HD sets were out there then?  WHERES THE NFL
Should I blame the networks or the NFL?  I just do not understand?

[Gregg Lengling]

Actually you can blame anyone you want...but the truth of the matter is the availability of HD Production Trucks and equipment.  You have over a dozen NFL games each weekend......there just aren't that many HD production trucks/trailers/cameras ect owned by the networks yet!  When the US Open Golf was on CBS in HD, there was a lot of SD mixed in because they didn't have the cameras and facilities to handle the number of shots they had to accomplish.

As my grandmother used to say, all good things take time, but they come in time.  
Now Bad things can come quicker accordingly we're talking about Fox's enhanced widescreen, which is 16:9 480p.  The cameras all the crews are using for SD are capable of providing 480p (they actually have over 500 lines of res.) and most of them already are set up for different aspect ratios, so I don't know why Fox isn't doing it yet.  

But as Tim C. says, this is just experimental.


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Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
glengling@ameritech.net

[mcq]

I recorded some of the MNF Packer game from 34-1, (because I was in the bar watching, of course.) I just looked at it this morning.... Oh my gawsh, it was amazing. Better than DVD quality. I cannot wait till next year.



[This message has been edited by mcq (edited 11-07-2002).]

[Tom Snyder]

To add to the confusion. This from a post at AVS:

 

After reading this post called our local abc station Wisn in Milwaukee, talked to programming director and he said ABC might have Monday Night Football for the last 2 or 3 games of the season. Nothing in concrete yet. They just started HD broadcast Nov 1. What shocked me is that they had not one screw up yet. Our local NBC station WTMJ has been in HD for a 1.5 years forgot to flip the switch last night for Law and order. Called them said it was not on there log but would check.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=187761>Entire Thread

[P a u l]

mcq how did you record it? Coax out of your STB or TV, which ever you have, into the vcr?