CBS College Sports channel PQ is awful

[brant]

The picture quality on this channel is by far the worst. I watched part of a basketball game earlier and it was strechted, but it was that funky stretch where the center is normal but the edges stretch out. Made it look really weird. Now a football program is on and the PQ is even worse. I compare the PQ w/ that of a recorded VHS program.

[projectorguru]

as with most new channels that come online, this is normal

[smackman]

And Still Much Better Than Dish Sd!

[jpeckinp]

And Still Much Better Than Dish Sd!

I don't think so. That weird strech-o-vision crap really hurts the eyes. SD might look bad but it doesn't hurt my eyes.

[brant]

And Still Much Better Than Dish Sd!


I'm going to assume you didn't look at this channel before making that comment, because it is certainly not better than SD.

[Stewart Vernon]

I'm going to assume you didn't look at this channel before making that comment, because it is certainly not better than SD.

100% agree here. My fingers are crossed for the promised HD later this year when the college sports seasons kick into gear with football and beyond.

[BillJ]

I just scanned through the new HD channels last night. Agree CBS College wasn't good but not sure what the original source was. I only noted it was a replay of NCAA final four but not the year. When CBS first started doing HD they didn't broadcast every game in HD and the ones that were in HD had a mix of HD and SD cameras. So poor original source may also be contributing to poor PQ now.

[bobsloop]

They were replaying this year's tournament over the past several days. It looked awful. It looked like a stretched SD signal to me. It was not marked as HD in the guide. It was still a beautiful thing to see the Jayhawks on top of the basketball world as they should be.

oops! I realized this was a Dish thread. I am viewing it on DirecTV.

[reddice]

It is a horrible waste of a good HD channel. I was expecting some good true 16:9 sports but all it is is SD stretch-o-vision just like Cartoon Network. There should be a law about stretching a 4:3 image to 16:9. So you have side pillars. At least it looks correct. Not like fat midgets.

[peak_reception]

I watched part of the 2008 Kansas/Memphis final replay last night and was thinking to myself, "Wasn't this broadcast in HD?" It looked bad. Hopefully they'll get their stuff together in the near future.

[scooper]

It was still a beautiful thing to see the Jayhawks on top of the basketball world as they should be.

It always will be (BS '83) :D