The growing pains of DirecTV
Saturday was a joyous day for Michigan and Michigan State fans alike. Michigan’s offence finally demonstrated that they are an offence versus Eastern Michigan but more importantly, Michigan State extracted sweet revenge against Notre Dame. The Michigan game did not interest me at all, even though I attend UofM, it was the 2-0 Michigan State Spartans taking on the 2-0 Fighting Irish; plus, NBC had the game on in full over-the-air high definition glory. If you happened to catch this, you know what I mean. The only thing better then football in HD is...well, nothing.
The next morning I was flipping through DirecTV and noticed that Universal HD was rebroadcasting the game. Granted, I already knew how it was going to end up, but early morning DirecTV HD leaves a bad taste in my mouth, so I flipped it on. It was disgusting. The digital artifacts were off the chart. A field of green sludge replaced the individual blades of grass that I noticed the day before.
I am not going to pretend that I know the bit rate or the compression that Universal HD and DirecTV used on this program nor will I tell you to stop watching one of the few stations that say they are HD and really are. All I can tell you is what is the picture was bad; almost unwatchable.
Has anyone else noticed terrible rebroadcasts like this?
