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
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 11:44 AMthe 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 :(
Drew Money
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 11:51 AMAmerican Football looks amazing in HD! And it’s highly watchable when you record it with IQ2 and fast forward the ad’s/slow bits.
shannon
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 12:06 PMNo Brainer really,
Option 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
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 12:20 PMslow 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!
strider009
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 1:03 PMnow 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
kurt
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 1:38 PMBring 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?
Dom Grimm
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 1:39 PMThe 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.
Rhys Butcher
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 2:05 PMwow gizmodo, way to alienate your gay audience. First a week on babies, now one on sport. What is next week? Vaginas?
Josh
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 3:02 PMOne HD is awesome! I was never interested in paying to watch sports (Foxtel). I watch One HD more than any other channel.
Dr_Stef
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 3:19 PMI think One HD definatly has the sharpest HD coverage on tv, however, indeed, however,
we 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
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 6:56 PMbaseball 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.
Neil
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 10:06 AMI 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…
Ollie
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 10:07 AMI 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.
Bruce Tucker
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 4:23 PMHi 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