According to KenH over at AVSForum, Fox recently (7/5/06) completed another part of the Splicer HD system and are now running at the higher data rate planned for since Splicer inception.
We should see the best HD FOX has ever delivered, from this point forward. If any of the local engineers can give us some insights that would be great.
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It would definitely be nice to hear something from the local engineers. I quickly passed by the baseball game today and it was simply awful, among the worst HD I\’ve ever seen. Does FOX just not even bother with baseball any more? Baseball on ESPN is much, much better.
Dennis
I agree somewhat with the comment on FOX MLB vs ESPN but I think FOX has one thing going against them….the time of the broadcast.
IMHO baseball looks much beter at night with the richness of colors and crisp video. Daytime/afternoon games seem to be washed out by the sunshine. Numerous camera angles are looking into or near the sun. Colors not as vivid and just not as “sharp” as the night games.
On the other hand the work FOX does with NASCAR is awesome.
To my knowledge Fox did a upgrade to the splicer software about a month ago or so, but it was primarily to fix some software bugs.
Fox is always tinkering with payload data rates and seems to push the envelope, but it’s always stable. I’ll have to check at what data rate were up to now.
Steve
The FOX baseball games right now are widescreen 480i upconverted to 720p. It is not HD. We should see some HD for the All Star Game and the post-season from FOX.
The All-Star game looked damn good last night–especially since they finally ditched the useless 25-3 news channel.
I just wish all the regular season games looked as good as the All-Star game did.
Oh well. There’s always the post-season.