Sure, not every station's pulled out the
Star Wars / Iron Man-style
holograms for the 2008
election, but they're all trying to put
shiny new HD studios to full use and get as many eyeballs as possible until things are decided. NBC & ABC immediately jumped out front at 7 p.m. with data pouring in on the widescreen edges of their HD feeds, with CNN waiting until states were decided to begin updating their lists. ABC's chosen to lean on its touchscreen display and forgo side graphics altogether, while despite Fox's claim as "America's Election HQ", with totally bare shoulders and boring sets, we're pointing our flatscreens elsewhere. PBS, despite airing the clearest, most high quality video available of three old guys at a table, has no slick touchscreens or HD graphics packages to speak of. Think about that as you check out the rest of the screens after the break, and during the next donation drive. Big Bird deserves better.
Election 2008 screengrabs:
posted Nov 4th 2008 9:37PM
Does anyone care?
Yes, it's the presidential election.
does anyone care? I suppose that's why American got Bush for a second term.
Strike 1!!!
OBAMA WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy shit how can you not care, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THE SCREEN OLD GUY (not from US sorry dont know his name) IS STANDING NEXT TOO!!!
OP has a point. Presidential elections are vitally important, but does anyone actually care about the difference between NBC's and CNN's information displays?
OBAMA WON GEEZ
My whole school did. We actually skipped a few classes just for the results. And we live in Bali, which is like... the other side of the globe for the Americans out there.
That hologram was amazing. But, like I've been telling my maintaining pcs students, it's a small step until those holograms turn into terminators and dominate us all. god save america.
CNN's hologram was cool and all, but is it really the best use of the technology to beam in Will.I.Am? I don't care what Will.I.Am has to say, and I voted for the guy he was supporting.
that is the most amount of pics ive seen in a engadget "report"
Looks like a giant black dildo sticking up in the second and third picture.
I know it's a chair, but... Hmm, I probably need to cut down on my porn hours. :(
@Gabe
How dare you have my name?
Oh and hell yeah that hologram was the shit.
And as for the HD channels...it's really a waste of HD.
For the comment you made about "Waste of HD", THEY ARE NEWS CHANNELS.
My vote goes to NBC for their good use of screen space and the uber-sexy web 2.0 bottom bar.
These pics make me realize just how much real estate is being cropped by my TV. I'm missing parts of both sides of the NBC graphics with the poll closing times.
Is this a TV calibration issue or a provider issue?
If you have an older TV set in a 4:3 ratio (a more 'square' picture) then you will be missing out on video, unless you scale it to 16:9 and get black bars at the top and bottom.
No Dazza,
Yeah, its happening to my HD set (HD source) also...
Agree NBC was the winner. CNN was too gadget-y (I can't believe I just typed that) "who cares about your fancy screen, show us the blue!" NBC seemed more concise, was calling races earlier and accurately. (I was watching two TV's) and seemed more about the people than about parsing the numbers like some DBA's wet dream.
@Wayne
probably a bit late for this but....another problem, if you have an HD set with missing video is if you have a zoom of some type on so the sides get cropped off
Ohio is solid red in that picture. FAIL
Oh wait. It says 2004.
lol FAIL on your end
though PBS may be the best high def video of 3 old guys sitting at a table, its even better that its 3 old UNBIASED guys at a table
WIN!!!! For the future generations and the forefathers of this great country where ALL MEN are created EQUAL. Where a president will uphold the constitution and our rights instead of undermining it. Where the internets should be neutral and equally accessible like Al Gore intended it to be. =P I mean Vincent Cerf. Bam's the Man!
I'm afraid that Obama is going to be the next president of the U.S.A. There went the coal industry and small businesses. Here comes a friend of Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalidi, Rezko, and more. Here comes socialism and the most liberal agenda ever. Here come a totally democratic congress that will allow Obama to do whatever he wants to. I can't explain my worries anymore than that. Here comes a rough 4 years.
And what were the last 8 years?
They've been decent. We've been safe for the last 8 years but with somebody with such a naive foreign policy, don't expect to be very safe in the next 4 years.
9/11 did happen 7 years ago under Bush right. And the person responsible for that has not been caught yet. But that is all the political banter I am willing to give to engadget tonight...off to the huffingtonpost.
That was caused by Bill Clinton's 8 years.
grull27: You have got to be kidding me. Have you been wearing a set of blinders for the last 8 years. Even the most die-hard conservatives agree that the country has went to crap.
http://www.thoughttheater.com/WearingBlinders.jpg
OR....
Here comes a friend of the Bush administration......
'nuff said
There is no reason for me to argue. Good night.
So... Your point is.... Being a friend of drug addict doesn't mean you're a drug addict, does it?
Safe? Safe from what? me kicking your ass. The last 8 years were shit, and our economy has never been better. Nothing but lies, where the hell are those bombs that sadam was hiding? as a matter of fact what did Iraq do to us? can you answer that question? no you can't and you probably won't either unless you do the palin tactic and start blabing away not making any sense. Take your head out of your ass and open your eyes. FYI NBC has the best HD coverage overall, Tom, and Brian are the best in the business.
WAHAHAAAHAHAHAA!!!!!! MCCAIN IS SYNONYMOUS TO LOSER!!!!
@ grull27, way to show you're a political hack who will just do as your told. I guess I would be bitter also if the majority of Americans told me my views were outdated. You even have McCain's logo as your avatar, for God's sake. That is pathetic that you actually associate your identity with McCain.
Get over it. Obama's alleged associations with Ayers et al. were just political gamesmanship (and ham-handed gamesmanship at that), and had nothing to do with the ISSUES. I don't think I'm alone in saying that Still President Bush has been one of the worst, if not the worst, president we have ever had. He nearly ran our economy into the ground, and he got us into a war (Iraq) that he argued was for our safety, but (1) had nothing to do with our safety to begin with (Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and was no threat to us) and (2) has made us less safe by creating more animosity in the middle east, thus creating more terrorists.
Way to give the new President-Elect a chance. Oh wait, he's a "socialist elite" so he isn't worthy of your support. Douche.
I predict Mickey Mouse, with the help of voting machines ;)
Or just the voting machine, check out the onion.
hahaha, fox should just give up. I can't imagine what they're talking about right now- "McCain is winning!" hahaha
damn thats beautiful!!
Is it just me or most of Engadget's "election posts" show pictures of Republicans leading?
I think it's about even, but I just snapped whatever was on screen.
engadget did show a few pic of obama winning on like i dont know.. the first three?
plus, obama has like 200+ votes and mccain barely has 100 as of right now.
so dont worry, i think obama will win :)
Fox had a touch screen too! they also had feeds. -you should check it out before you make statements like that
I don't have streams to US channels. I live in Australia.
I only get CBS on the antenna at my place (the local NBC and Fox haven't put up their strong towers yet), but their HD signal is glorious. I am digging the crispy graphics and the useful sidebars.
For once, DirecTV came in handy.
They used their "Live Mix" UI, the one they use for their NFL Coverage, for the election, allowing me to watch ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and BBC America (Which has now changed to Comedy Central?) at once, and change audio by highlighting the respective channel i want to hear. It's pretty slick.
Here's a screengrab: http://www.andrewperon.com/IMG00100.JPG
Feel free to use it, Engadget.
Oh my God, babbling bobble head overload.
I'l miss you Georgie Boy!!
whatever, we have enough lovely bush-videos on youtube to laugh for the next four years.
cheers everybody!
Please please America, just give me a news station that doesn't rely on graphics and text crawls to hold my attention.