Now that the heat wave broke in the East and the draft and free agency period are in the rear view mirror, can I now begin the whine, beg, cajole and any other earnest verb you can come up with for the remaining HD feeds to be added for next year. :lol:
I've been kicking around the idea of getting Center Ice for the first time in nearly ten years for Edmonton games, but if most of their games are in SD I think I will pass. I'd even be open to paying a premium to get all the games in HD if that option was made available, but $162 for SD Oilers games is a bit steep. It's hard to watch SD games after you get spoiled watching them in HD on Versus, NBC, NHL Network. Maybe Hockey Night in Canada will broadcast more Edmonton games this year with Taylor Hall in the lineup (assuming he makes the team).
I've been kicking around the idea of getting Center Ice for the first time in nearly ten years for Edmonton games, but if most of their games are in SD I think I will pass. I'd even be open to paying a premium to get all the games in HD if that option was made available, but $162 for SD Oilers games is a bit steep. It's hard to watch SD games after you get spoiled watching them in HD on Versus, NBC, NHL Network. Maybe Hockey Night in Canada will broadcast more Edmonton games this year with Taylor Hall in the lineup (assuming he makes the team).
Most Sundays NHL Network replayed the late Saturday game HNIC in HD and a lot of those were Oiler games, I think. You don't need CI for that, but it is maybe 15-20 games. And as long as you don't mind the U.S. announcers, most other games are in HD if it is an Oiler game vs a U.S team, , although some are still upconverts and I can recall a Wild feed of the Rangers-Wild game (only feed available that night) which may have been the worst quality feed of any televised sporting event since before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk!!!
All I can say about NHLCI and HD, is we better continue to get the MSG HD feeds again this year. And hopefully they will have HD feeds for home and most away games as well.
And there is no real break in the heat wave here in Texas. Although its in the low 90's right now instead of the upper 90's or 100+.
I'm hoping that the NHL's online NHL Gamecenter package will have dual feeds so I don't have to deal with D*'s CI nonsense. More games in HD and hopefully this next season it will have every teams broadcast?
I got a taste of NHLCI free to start last season... was I ever disappointed. My love of hockey could never justify the cost for such a poor quality product...
Since you just signed up for DIRECTV recently, you must have watched the free NHL CI preview on Comcast. If your issue was lack of HD and not getting dual feeds, don't base your "quality" decision on what you saw on Comcast. On DIRECTV, most games have dual feeds and by the end of the last season, most games were in HD. The exception being if you were a Flyers fan or fan of a Canadian team. In that case you were lucky to get one feed in HD.
When does DTV typically release the NHLCI broadcast schedule showing what games/feeds will be in SD or HD? If I can get 70+ Edmonton games in HD through a combination of Canadian and US feeds, I will probably pull the trigger.
I sure miss the old C-band days when I could pull in all the Edmonton games for free (with a little searching). I still remember the rush I got when I would stumble across the transponder with the Oilers game. Usually all you would see on the screen was a shot of the rafters or ice surface prior to face-off. If the Oilers were playing at Northlands Coliseum, I knew right away I had the game. If the Oilers were on the road, sometimes it took a few minutes to figure out--especially if they were playing in someplace like Hartford or Quebec.
Having access to all of the Saturday night HNIC games was the icing on the cake for a hockey fan. Guys like Dick Irvin and Bob Cole knew the game inside and out and were a lot of fun to listen to. Of course, back then all the games were in analog SD so in regards to picture quality, today's product is far superior.
If that is Canadian (as in the country) I am pretty sure most Leaf feeds were in HD. It it is Canadien (as in the team?) then I think you are right, although there may have been a few TSN feeds in HD???
The Oilers games in HD were the non-Oilers team's feeds. So FOX Sports AZ Coyotes production of the game against the Oil in HD for example. Not 50+ CDN feeds of the Oilers in HD on DTV. Sorry if I confused anyone.
If that is Canadian (as in the country) I am pretty sure most Leaf feeds were in HD. It it is Canadien (as in the team?) then I think you are right, although there may have been a few TSN feeds in HD???
i meant canadian the country, i dont remember ever seeing a flames oilers or senators home feed in HD; but yes i do recall a few leafs games being in HD
That's a bummer. Although I can live with the US feed if it means having the majority of Oilers games in HD, I'd really like to have at least half of them HD Canadian. Doesn't sound like that's going to happen unless there are big changes from last year's lineup.
Oilers had 10 games on TSN in HD. 1 on TSN2 in HD (used Comcast Chi feed) 18 PPV games in HD. 12 CBC games (most in HD, a few SD 16:9 tho) so say 10. 1 on OTA station in Edmonton that was not in HD and 40 games on SNET WEST ( about 28-30 in HD). Most of SNET WEST Oilers home games were HD and over half of the road.
So people living in the Oilers region (Western Canadian Prairie provinces) got about 68+ Oilers games in HD now that I break the numbers down.
As an aside, out of say 10-14 SD Oilers games, a handful of those were in HD via the opponents feed.
So Indiana Oilers fan, I think you will get a minimum of 50 Oilers games (likely more) in HD with Directv NHL CI (and NHL Network - last year NHL Net didn't broadcast the HNIC late game live, the year before they did).
If Directv picked up Canadian HD feeds, you'd hit 70+ easy.
If you are looking for an Oilers fix. Listen to Oilers Lunch radio (1 to 3 PM MDT) on www.theteam1260.com. They have podcasts of the show as well. It runs all season and most of the summer (I think a couple weeks off in August).
That's a bummer. Although I can live with the US feed if it means having the majority of Oilers games in HD, I'd really like to have at least half of them HD Canadian. Doesn't sound like that's going to happen unless there are big changes from last year's lineup.
well, you can do what some of us MSG fans did, record the other team's HD feed on one machine and the MSG SD feed on the other and sync them to watch the HD and listen to SD, a real pain, but least worst of both worlds.
With HD lite on sat and a decent computer and graphics card on your pc the difference isn't that much for me. Granted I love watching on a big screen but I'm hoping that with a new setup of a HTPC at the end of the summer it won't feel much different.
Not to mention that the online package atleast picks up the HD broadcasts of Canadian feeds and Philly feeds.
With HD lite on sat and a decent computer and graphics card on your pc the difference isn't that much for me. Granted I love watching on a big screen but I'm hoping that with a new setup of a HTPC at the end of the summer it won't feel much different.
Not to mention that the online package atleast picks up the HD broadcasts of Canadian feeds and Philly feeds.
well, you can do what some of us MSG fans did, record the other team's HD feed on one machine and the MSG SD feed on the other and sync them to watch the HD and listen to SD, a real pain, but least worst of both worlds.
Funny. I've done that a few times to get Oilers announcers for the games on the US RSN HD games, too.
What is PIA though is usually DTV will cut off Oilers post game show (the one that is a part of the game broadcast itself, not the extended one) before it is over on Rogers SportsNet West.
That's a bummer. Although I can live with the US feed if it means having the majority of Oilers games in HD, I'd really like to have at least half of them HD Canadian. Doesn't sound like that's going to happen unless there are big changes from last year's lineup.
for majority of the games, unless they are playing another canadien team, or certain special circumstances like a sabres game in edmonton (sabres arent broadcast in HD on the road) you will be able to watch the other teams feed in HD. i think most of us feel your pain about wanting to watch the home team feed and their announcers; msg (sabres devils islanders rangers) for over a year were SD only, and they played each other quite a bit being 3 of 4 in the same division.
for majority of the games, unless they are playing another canadien team, or certain special circumstances like a sabres game in edmonton (sabres arent broadcast in HD on the road) you will be able to watch the other teams feed in HD. i think most of us feel your pain about wanting to watch the home team feed and their announcers; msg (sabres devils islanders rangers) for over a year were SD only, and they played each other quite a bit being 3 of 4 in the same division.
Other all HD teams I can think of are the NYC teams (unless all three are playing at the same time in which case one of the games will be SD) and the Bruins on NESN.
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