There were quite a few noisy complaints when Channel 10 announced that their HD channel would be rebranded ‘One’ and feature 24 hours of non-stop sports coverage, especially from sci-fi geeks. But there is one certainty for sports-watching fans — HD is the best way to watch it by far.
But just because it’s better doesn’t mean people are doing it. Even though Foxtel’s SD channels are sub SD quality a lot of the time, I don’t spring for Fox Sports HD just so I can watch the Wallabies lose in HD. Our question today: Do you watch your sport in HD?
Playing with balls is Gizmodo AU’s week-long look at the technology behind the sports we love, from the jerseys to the balls and everything in between. Go the Socceroos!
Roman
September 28, 2009 at 11:44 AM
the HD sports channels were by far the major reason i subscribed to foxtel originally.
unfortunately, the butt-reaming I received with regards to pricing for said package was the reason i unsubscribed to the service :(
Report PermalinkDrew Money
September 28, 2009 at 11:51 AM
American Football looks amazing in HD! And it’s highly watchable when you record it with IQ2 and fast forward the ad’s/slow bits.
Report Permalinkshannon
September 28, 2009 at 12:06 PM
No Brainer really,
Report PermalinkOption 1 watch sport in SD,
Option 2 watch the same thing in HD
And if you have Optus cable TV, they dont actually have an HD Option either.
Best thing about One HD is that the Grandprix has been live, and they have UFC and Boxing . Im probably watching more One HD than I am pay TV these days.
steve
September 28, 2009 at 12:20 PM
slow day eh nick?
of course any sensible man would watch their sport in HD… the only problem that i face now is other stations that don’t broadcast in HD so my new 1080p TV looks crap!
Report Permalinkstrider009
September 28, 2009 at 1:03 PM
now if only they did something about the low quality of the actual feeds themselves!
i am sick of things that don’t move being perfectly sharp and everything that does and/or matters being a mass of pixels or fuzzy motion
Report Permalinkkurt
September 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Bring back Ten HD on channel 11 and change One HD to One and keep it on channel 1. Then we can watch proper TV shows in HD as they should be and we still have an all sports channel. Whats the point have Nascar in HD when only a few people watch it when we can shows that lots of people watch in HD. ABC, SBS, 7 and 9 have all done the right thing so why can’t you Ten?
Report PermalinkDom Grimm
September 28, 2009 at 1:39 PM
The difference between watching HD and SD sports is like day and night. My parents got Fox Sports HD and I get to watch it whenever I go home, watching sports in SD just isn’t as good anymore.
Report PermalinkRhys Butcher
September 28, 2009 at 2:05 PM
wow gizmodo, way to alienate your gay audience. First a week on babies, now one on sport. What is next week? Vaginas?
Report PermalinkJosh
September 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM
One HD is awesome! I was never interested in paying to watch sports (Foxtel). I watch One HD more than any other channel.
Report PermalinkDr_Stef
September 28, 2009 at 3:19 PM
I think One HD definatly has the sharpest HD coverage on tv, however, indeed, however,
Report Permalinkwe now have abc1234, 9HD 12 and 3 and then the ONE channel in various different formats.
If they could start to show more different things than just sports, that would be excellent
ed
September 28, 2009 at 6:56 PM
baseball is dull. really dull. You won’t believe how mind numbingly dull it is until you watch all nine innings as I did the other day on one hd. Just because it looked so darn beautiful.
Report PermalinkNeil
September 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM
I watch OneHD when there is a sport worth watching on, but it seems to me they play alot of Nascar and poker, in fact its mainly american sports…
Report PermalinkOllie
September 29, 2009 at 10:07 AM
I don’t think sport on tv excludes geeks at all, they’re not mutually exclusive.
And one HD is awesome, boxing, UFC, NFL, NBA all in great quality.
Report PermalinkBruce Tucker
June 18, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Hi there I am a NASCR fan why does all other sports get full coverage and NASCAR gets only Highlites, Now the big thing there are two divisions of NASCAR racing Sprintcup & Nationwide so please tell me how ONE HD plays 4 of the same race during the week and nothing of the other so we miss out this happens very often, or don’t they care I aplaude HD 1 for bringing me the NASCAR I like to watch but please get it right so we see all of the races not replays of the same race 4 times Bruce Adeliade
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