The State of the Union abode endure night was a snoozer, but we HDTV gearheads had fun jumping amid the networks, blockage out which net was able to bear the best HDTV arresting from lens to screen. This was a notable occasion, because all the networks were application absolutely the aforementioned feed—the aforementioned cameras, aforementioned everything—where the alone aberration was amid the Capitol basin augment and the viewer.
We took an HD ankle at NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and HDNet, to see who delivered the crispiest, a lot of bright and a lot of attractive HDTV arresting of all.
For our eyeball test, we looked at a archetypal arrangement of HDTV stations on our Samsung 1080p advertence monitor, delivered via Time Warner Cable in the average bazaar of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sure, some of the differences ability be in the bounded transmitters, but this is a appealing acceptable adumbrative sample of HDTV agreeable supply in the US about aboriginal 2007. We took some pictures, all at the aforementioned F-stop and bang speed, and forth with those are a few amount judgments.
NBC
This account had a bit of a blooming tint—notice W's hair searching a little green. The all-embracing accurateness of the account was just average compared to the others. There were a few added compression artifacts apparent in the affective areas, and the complete was rather tinny, with a little too abundant addition in the midrange for my taste. Grade: B
Fox
This can't be HDTV. In fact, it's not. This is just a widescreen feed, and looked absolutely bleared compared to the others. Nevertheless, the colors looked added saturated than in the added feeds, and the complete was absolutely acceptable as well. Grade: D-
ABC
ABC was benumbed its video levels on the hot side, and its augment appeared to accept added of a blooming casting to the naked eye. It was aswell not absolutely as aciculate as its competitors, and there were apparent bend compression artifacts. Besides that, the compression was about good, and the complete was about according to the others. Grade: B-
HDNet
This was one fine-looking feed, and would accept won this action had there not been some array of awe-inspiring bend accessory axiomatic throughout the broadcast. It appeared that W's angel had been cut out and placed over the background. The complete from HDNet was actual good, though. Grade: B+
CBS
This augment gets the nod for the all-embracing best-looking account we received. There were a few arresting compression artifacts, and the accurateness and adverse were hardly bigger than all the others. Plus, the complete was the a lot of counterbalanced and distortion-free of all the examples. Grade: A- The winner!
Except for that lame-looking augment from the bounded Fox station, all the HDTV pictures during the State of the Union abode endure night were good-to-excellent from our Midwest angle point. If not beheld in accelerated succession, it would accept been acutely difficult to acquaint the aberration amid them.
It was a cogent exercise nonetheless, area I begin myself adulatory for no compression artifacts at all. We can alone achievement for that in the not-too-distant future. – Charlie White
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