How many viewers will ITV SD lose in direct competition with SkyHD for this, are you having mates round who would normally have to put up with sub standard ITV mediocrity.
What's this? A "Let's justify the expense of the SKY HD sports package and diss ITV" post?
Personally, I'll be quite happy watching the match on ITV HD either done as an up res test (the Rangers match looked pretty good on my Panny) or possibly even in HD if they "do" show it. The main thing is though, that it wont cost ITV HD viewers any more than the cost of the Licence Fee (yes I know this funds BBC and not ITV, but you still need a licence to view it..lol). Of course, we ITV HD viewers may decide to eat food or maybe even buy a car this week and so indirectly fund the advertisers as has been suggested before...lol!!
Either way it's the match that matters and it's a formality...UTD will win!!!
I watched Dexter last night on the projector and I have to say I'm impressed with ITVs up resolution tests. It's almost at the point where I sometimes cant tell the difference between it and HD, yes even on a projector. On a smaller screen the difference is almost negligible. The main thing is that ITV can now boast having a decent PQ and has finally moved with the times.....come on you Reds!!!
Well, I've just compared ITV SD, Sky SD and Sky HD and I have to say that ITV wins hands down. Well done ITV, don't listen to all these whingers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I flicked over to check the PQ on ITV. Yet another shocking picture from them. I must admit to taking some perverse pleasure from sticking two fingers up at the screen as I quickly turned back over to Sky HD!
But it's not a poll for the Nation, is it? It was to ask this Forum's members how they would be watching the Final. Obviously you didn't watch it on Sky because you've cancelled the service.
That will be because Sky provided the coverage to ITV. Upscaled SD, assuming that's what it was, is bound to be better than ITV or Sky's SD coverage.
As others have said, what would be the point of basing the poll around ITV HD? The channel hasn't launched yet and it's only a handful of people seeing the transmissions.
as the start of the game clashed with putting the kids to bed, at 745 I went to my Sky planner and pressed record on Sports HD but the red light didn't go on on my box. So I tried viewing the channel and it didn't work (technical fault with the channel). Strange.
So I recorded SD instead.
When I finished catching up duing extra time using x2 / x6 etc. I tried selecting the HD channel again but came up with the same error message. but when I cancelled recording SD and then selected HD it worked.
I see ITV did their usual quick cut off as soon as the cup was presented, although this time they did a actually manage to capture it (remember Schmichael in 1999? )
Still, ITV have never been one to dwell on the after presentation celebrations unlike Sky whose coverage went on for ages afterwards.