Comcast Sports Net NW Picture Quality

sometimes channel 788 airs what is on 37, and then it’s in HD.

Try watching the games from 1992 on CSNNW… brutal.

And yes, I pay for NBA league pass and it’s still crappy.

First, don’t know why they don’t broadcast them all in HD. They got enough money for the deal, I’m sure they can afford some HD cameras.
Second, it looks like crap on 37. Horrible, junk, miserable, barely tolerable. Especially on a 50" plasma. It really pisses me off actually, i’m glad you brought it up!

The only exceptions are the national games. I am not 100% sure on that but I think that is how it works. If true it would explain why there is variation from game to game.

I couldn’t even tell whow was on the floor last night, the picture was so bad.

my other gripe is why, in this day and age, do we still broadcast games in Low Def? If we’re paying such high prices for tickets, cable subscriptions etc. we should force the issue of getting our games in HD.

my other other gipe is with Directv. I know my neighbor who has comcast likes me and enjoys my company, but I wonder when his wife will pull the plug on me showing up on his couch everynight for games with a beer in my hand?

so people were complaining about the Ref’s, and you couldn’t see the freaking game???

I just bought a HDTV and subscribed to the Comcast HD service with a DVR, just for the Blazers’ season (although I was already a Comcast subscriber before). I’ve called and asked several times – to make sure I was speaking with different customer service reps, not the same idiot – about what the status of CSNNW HD is. They’ve always replied that they’re working on it, and that channel is their highest priority.

The most informative guy told me that it’s related to the bandwidth and frequencies available for HD broadcast. When the switch to digital broadcast is made in February, the FCC is also opening up a lot of additional space for HD broadcasts. He said to expect a LOT more HD available then. He said that’s the furthest out that CSNNW would go HD, and to expect sometime sooner than that.

That being said, I agree with everyone else that the Utah quality was exceptionally bad. I have two theories for that. One, which has already been mentioned, has to do with the camera and arena feeds in Utah. Home teams provide cameras, crews, and feeds, except for nationally televised (TNT, ESPN, ABC) games. It could just be that Utah has particularly awful cameras in their arena.

The other theory is that it’s not just the cameras or in-arena feeds, but also an issue with the network that broadcasts the signal from the arena to the larger network that carries it across the country and world. That would explain why the graphics were blurry (which are edited in over the camera feed) in addition to the game. It would also explain why the commercials were clearer, which are coming from a different, local source (that helpfully is providing all our information about Spirit Mountain). That makes more sense to me.

Either way, CSNNW HD can’t get here fast enough, and we should just blame Utah for everything else. Seriously, everything, like when my lunch dripped on my pants. Stupid Utah….