Corey Gouker's Machine Inside the Mind

This year I had the pleasure of watching the Super Bowl on my Samsung HLS-5688W over QAM free and clear from the wall outlet direct to the TV. The game was decent. Found the touchdown on kick-off to be quite hilarious. Then the first 5 minutes of play to be equally hilarious due to both teams sucking. Then after that the rain didn't help matters and it was another boring football game.

Now the things I noticed and the main reasons for watching this year were technical things. Like the first down line not doing too well on the white full yard lines. Next and the main reason for this post was the utter lack of quality at some point during the camera and the signal going into the DSP of my DLP. I actually had to go into the settings of the TV and move the picture up because CBS seemed to be broadcasting it so badly there was an annoying half inch black line at the top. Even after doing that I noticed some ads just weren't centered vertically. Ignoring that. They simply need to have better encoding of this stuff, more bandwidth, something, as soon as they'd get in close on a player on the sidelines that would be running just a bit the picture would go blocky and all that glorious 1080i content just looked like crap on my 1080p TV. And honestly this isn't just a problem with CBS, all the networks, service providers, whoever, aren't really doing a good job for motion content. Hire Joel and Brandon or something , oops they're already taken...

That being said, when they had a nice stable picture it was just jaw dropping. Blades of grass, little specks of rain. Brilliant. And shame on all those SDTV ads, yuck. I can't wait for the day to have a full hour of TV in 100% HD... Oh wait I do, it's on 82-5 here, KCTS-HD .