Anyone else have trouble with WGN's HD??

[David]

It must be terribly sad for the fans of almost every other team (does TBS still do Braves games nationally or did they phase that out completely with their new package?) that don't have a national station broadcasting a bunch of their games, then. ;)

 

 

I'm just saying that for every other team in baseball, you don't even have the option of choosing to listen to/watch your team's own broadcast. If you're lucky enough to have a baseball package that allows you to watch your team out of market, you pretty much take what they give you, whether it's your broadcast or the other teams.

 

In other words, it's not all that sad that you might have to tune into another team's broadcast to get a nice HD picture. For a fan of any other team, that's the only choice, anyway.

[jersey cubs fan]

It must be terribly sad for the fans of almost every other team (does TBS still do Braves games nationally or did they phase that out completely with their new package?) that don't have a national station broadcasting a bunch of their games, then. ;)

 

 

I'm just saying that for every other team in baseball, you don't even have the option of choosing to listen to/watch your team's own broadcast. If you're lucky enough to have a baseball package that allows you to watch your team out of market, you pretty much take what they give you, whether it's your broadcast or the other teams.

In other words, it's not all that sad that you might have to tune into another team's broadcast to get a nice HD picture. For a fan of any other team, that's the only choice, anyway.

 

I don't really have a problem watching another team's broadcast. And I will whenever it's an HD option while WGN is not. But it is an option. Most of the games you can watch whichever broadcast you prefer.

[David]

It must be terribly sad for the fans of almost every other team (does TBS still do Braves games nationally or did they phase that out completely with their new package?) that don't have a national station broadcasting a bunch of their games, then. ;)

 

 

I'm just saying that for every other team in baseball, you don't even have the option of choosing to listen to/watch your team's own broadcast. If you're lucky enough to have a baseball package that allows you to watch your team out of market, you pretty much take what they give you, whether it's your broadcast or the other teams.

In other words, it's not all that sad that you might have to tune into another team's broadcast to get a nice HD picture. For a fan of any other team, that's the only choice, anyway.

 

I don't really have a problem watching another team's broadcast. And I will whenever it's an HD option while WGN is not. But it is an option. Most of the games you can watch whichever broadcast you prefer.

 

I wouldn't either. That's kinda what I'm saying. And yea, if I had to choose, I'd go for the picture over the announcing team, 10/10 times.

[Soul]

It must be terribly sad for the fans of almost every other team (does TBS still do Braves games nationally or did they phase that out completely with their new package?) that don't have a national station broadcasting a bunch of their games, then. ;)

 

 

I'm just saying that for every other team in baseball, you don't even have the option of choosing to listen to/watch your team's own broadcast. If you're lucky enough to have a baseball package that allows you to watch your team out of market, you pretty much take what they give you, whether it's your broadcast or the other teams.

In other words, it's not all that sad that you might have to tune into another team's broadcast to get a nice HD picture. For a fan of any other team, that's the only choice, anyway.

 

I don't really have a problem watching another team's broadcast. And I will whenever it's an HD option while WGN is not. But it is an option. Most of the games you can watch whichever broadcast you prefer.

 

I wouldn't either. That's kinda what I'm saying. And yea, if I had to choose, I'd go for the picture over the announcing team, 10/10 times.

 

I'd rather catch Len & Bob if possible. I guess using the word "sad" was a bit overkill. I'm not sitting on my couch crying when I have to tune into the Stros broadcast to get HD, for example. I just wish I could get the Cubs all the time in HD.

 

BTW, you're right, other teams mess things up too. For example, the Brewers broadcast a certain number of games on WMLW, which is a Milwaukee-only broadcast station. Even though people in Madison who have DirecTV -- a Brewer market -- can't get WMLW, they still black out the other team's broadcast. So that means, for those games, a large part of the Brewers own market can't watch the game at all on TV. Which is......really dumb.

[Guest]

Let's start with the basics. Are you hooked up with an HDMI cable?

 

That's an important question, but I think David already hit on the even more basic question.

 

If WGN-HD isn't in your HD tier, it sounds like the WGN you're watching is just the regular SD broadcast. The fact that it says "In Hi-def where available" unfortunately sounds like it doesn't apply in your case -- it's probably referring to those areas where the separate WGN-HD channel is available.

 

 

I thought B was joking, but who knows. :)

 

Actually, I wasn't. Before I got an HDMI cable, I had some channels come in better than others.

 

How much of a difference does an HDMI cable make over normal HD cables?

[Guest]

How much of a difference does an HDMI cable make over normal HD cables?

 

I believe I placed a grade difference in one of my previous posts in this thread.

 

In a scale of 1-100, it went from 25 to 100. Apparently, others haven't experienced that much of a difference.

 

I used the cables that were provided by my cable company when they supplied the HD receiver.

 

For my second HD box, I went ahead and bought an HDMI cable when I picked up the tv, since the difference wasn't worth experiencing a second time.

[David]

Let's start with the basics. Are you hooked up with an HDMI cable?

 

That's an important question, but I think David already hit on the even more basic question.

 

If WGN-HD isn't in your HD tier, it sounds like the WGN you're watching is just the regular SD broadcast. The fact that it says "In Hi-def where available" unfortunately sounds like it doesn't apply in your case -- it's probably referring to those areas where the separate WGN-HD channel is available.

 

 

I thought B was joking, but who knows. :)

 

Actually, I wasn't. Before I got an HDMI cable, I had some channels come in better than others.

 

How much of a difference does an HDMI cable make over normal HD cables?

 

 

HDMI cables and component cables are no different in picture quality.

 

EDIT - I probably should've worded it different. One isn't necessarily better than the other, although HDMI offers more convenience and will be more flexible if/when resolutions continue to improve.

 

That said, they're both really good and you're not likely to notice a huge difference, if any, and it really depends a lot on your individual set up in terms of which one is better.

[David]

Here's a decent breakdown...

 

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/122868.html