Edgy Football

redbluetwo · 22-01-2008, 13:23

Why is it that watching a football match is hard work as i am constantly looking at what seems to ghosting around the players and the texture of the pitch constantly changing e.g. at throw ins pitch looks great and in detail as soon as the camera moves slightly it breaks into a blanket of green.

don't get me wrong better picture than ever just distracting, i understand the speed of movement and that the picture will never catch up but with a V+ HDMI and a Samsung ps42q97hd i was hoping for a better.

If anyone can list their viewing settings for footie, much appreciated.

squealy · 22-01-2008, 14:13

Are you talking about all the sports channels or just Setanta?

Can't say I have the same issues but then I've only got a 28" CRT tv. Setanta picture is noticeably worse than the Sky Sports pic for footie though.

redbluetwo · 22-01-2008, 14:24

mainly Setanta not as bad on some of the others but noticeable.
Any HD football coming up soon, am i right in thinking no african nations on HD

squealy · 23-01-2008, 12:08

To be honest if you want HD football then you need to go to Sky and pay them the extra Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£10 per month for an HD box. VM doesn't have any HD footie to my knowledge and I can't see it arriving in the forseeable future if they don't even have the capacity to add Arsenal TV.

Jonnymeg · 23-01-2008, 19:01

What you are seeing are compression artifacts and it is to do with the way digital TV is broadcast. The broadcaster in this case is using a low bit rate which allows more channels to be broadcast at the expensive of picture quality.
My guess is that you have a large LCD or plasma maybe 37 inches or greater?

Large flat panels are notorious for enhancing this problem. All you can do is sit further back and play with the picture settings on your TV.

squealy · 25-01-2008, 08:17

The picture quality on the Africa Cup of Nations games yesterday on British Eurosport was the lowest quality I've ever seen on VM; full of those so-called artefact jobbies. It even looked awful on a 28" CRT. Dunno if it was down to Eurosport or VM though.

snorbitz · 26-01-2008, 14:37

The quality on Setanta Sports is terrible.

Ramraider · 27-01-2008, 16:14

I know what you mean!!!
I've tried every setting possible on my Sony 32" LCD with no luck, you mean when the camera moves with the flow of the game the pitch turns blurry,as tho the tv cant handle so much green.
I think its all down to the quality of the broadcasting, if you take a look at the spanish footy tonight, thats even worse including blurry shirts.
And i agree Eurosports transmission of the African cup are only just watchable,think they filming them on a mobile phone lol

cheers Ram

Begize · 27-01-2008, 18:58

Well I've got to say I think the footy always looks great on my Sony 32" Bravia.

Yes, if you sit close you can see the pixellation but I get no blurring and very few problems like those described. I think some of it has to do with the original broadcast - I've noticed the FA Cup matches this weekend have been excellent quality where the Cup of Nations stuff is pretty bad. I guess that the FA Cup stuff, particulalrly on Sky Sports, is done with HD cameras and although Virgin only carry the SD pictures, it looks better for it.

I have to be honest and say Setanta has also always looked excellent (although perhaps not quite the BBC or Sky quality).

My Bravia is one of the new ones with the 100Hz motion flow stuff in so maybe that helps?