It's almost as if there's someone at ITV doing this on purpose - this has to go down as the worst quality I've seen on their Champions League footage ever.
When people complain about the picture quality on ITV's live Champions league games I often think to myself "well its not that bad, perhaps i have a really good tv" BUT tonight the PQ is absolutely shocking.
Its almost like watching a bootleg DVD of a new film.
It's almost as if there's someone at ITV doing this on purpose - this has to go down as the worst quality I've seen on their Champions League footage ever.
I think the picture is pretty good by itv standards pity their standards are so far behind everyone.
The Meridian / Yorkshire tp is pretty horrible at about 10% less
STV isnt bad - similar to London
Rough averages taken with Bitrate Viewer 1.4 over about 30 seconds on my dreambox
Remember all the ITV regions are showing the same content& when theres fast action on the screen theres nothing for the "statmuxing" (on the fly redistribution of bitrates) technology to work with.
superb on sky latest panasonic tv 26 inch .no problems with that .
You must be sitting a reasonable distance from quite a small TV. There is no way any TV can look good from close up with that signal- sorry it just isn't possible.
I have noticed it too. Someone should do a comparison with tomorrow night's game, which will be in stunning high definition!
Both JPG, so not the best quality (BMP was 10MB, so i compressed it to 400KB JPG)... But the difference can be seen likewise
If you want BMP, I can upload it.
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(Joke):D absolutely appauling quality, whats the bit rate 0.001 bits per second?:D
keep hearing commentators saying Balack, think they are watching same quality as us
What is about ITV and their champions league coverage. Do they purposely go out to broadcast sports in the lowest possible quality?
They should be dropped or stripped of the rights as they have been for F1.
Its almost like watching a bootleg DVD of a new film.
Finally quality SD transmissions from itv:D:D
I think the picture is pretty good by itv standards pity their standards are so far behind everyone.
Pity Liverpool vs Chelsea is now and the fact ITV is launching a HD channel in the summer isn't a lot of good tonight.
Maybe the PQ of your TV is shocking all the time so you haven't noticed the appauling quality of the game tonight
I've let the missus turn over and put Holby City on - that's a gauge for how bad it really is
Listen to it on Five Live radio instead like me.
Freeview is best at the moment!
As others have said it's up to usual ITV champions league standards.:(
Poor match though anyway!
Thank god sky have the Barca Man Utd game AND in HD tomo night.
Gotta wonder what next seaons champs league is gonna b like with ITV on ITV HD.
I doubt ITV HD will be about for the champ league final, and even if it is, i think Sky Sports make the best anyway
superb on sky latest panasonic tv 26 inch .no problems with that .
Yeah, It will be interesting to see how they perform as ITV HD, Sky Sports HD is the best for sure!
I hope the PQ is at least as good as the current Channel 4 HD.
As Sky have been selected as the host broadcaster for this ears final ITV would just get the HD feed off them.
The Meridian / Yorkshire tp is pretty horrible at about 10% less
STV isnt bad - similar to London
Rough averages taken with Bitrate Viewer 1.4 over about 30 seconds on my dreambox
Remember all the ITV regions are showing the same content& when theres fast action on the screen theres nothing for the "statmuxing" (on the fly redistribution of bitrates) technology to work with.
At the end of the day ITV need more tp capacity
Both JPG, so not the best quality (BMP was 10MB, so i compressed it to 400KB JPG)... But the difference can be seen likewise
If you want BMP, I can upload it.
SD (ITV London):
http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/4/4/22/f_itvm_e8b0d39.jpg
HD (Premiere HD):
http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/4/4/22/f_hdm_4349a3a.jpg
I can also upload a snapshot from Premiere Sport SD if you like to see one.