July 2, 200818 yr So how do they decide which games get HD? I'm not quite sure how this works. It seems most home games on FSN get broadcasted in HD, but none on Sunshine. I was thinking that on the road they don't bring the HD camera's along with them since hardly none are brodcasted in HD on either stations. But then I just saw the next game in fact is, but the rest in the series isn't. So why are some games shown in HD on the road and others aren't? And the ones that are, where are they getting the camera feed from?
July 2, 200818 yr So how do they decide which games get HD? I'm not quite sure how this works. It seems most home games on FSN get broadcasted in HD, but none on Sunshine. I was thinking that on the road they don't bring the HD camera's along with them since hardly none are brodcasted in HD on either stations. But then I just saw the next game in fact is, but the rest in the series isn't. So why are some games shown in HD on the road and others aren't? And the ones that are, where are they getting the camera feed from? I'm not sure how they decide it, but there was 1 game this year that was on Sun Sports-HD, which was the same channel as FSN-HD.
July 3, 200818 yr Author I'm not sure how they decide it, but there was 1 game this year that was on Sun Sports-HD, which was the same channel as FSN-HD. Yup, you are right on that one. I forgot about that game but remember being surprised when I heard them say it was available in HD and it wasn't on FSN-HD cause I checked that first. The away games are what I'm really curious about, since it just appears random when they do broadcast games in HD.
July 3, 200818 yr Somebody asked a similar question to Tom Jicha (the Sun-Sentinel's excellent TV writer) in his weekly column and he gave the following response ... Only 75 Marlins games this season will be in high definition, according to a FSN/Sunshine representative, because HD takes up more bandwidth than a normal presentation on the satellite transmitting it and Fox Sports doles out its satellite space among all the major league teams it has rights to televise. There isn't enough bandwidth to go around every night. Also, cable stations carrying HD telecasts have to clear another channel for the HD telecast and there is not always one available. Eventually, these issues will be resolved but it will involve significantly higher costs, which can't be justified right now because of the relatively low number of HD homes, supposedly only 13.7 percent. Link: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifes...,7512971.column
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