7Towers @ Jan 24th 2007 1:33AM

This was fun being able to compare all the feeds, my summary:

Best, buuutt...: CBS - The colors were brighter and that is what really helped their feed, buuuutt what was up with those graphics? Take a look at the shot from last year.. much better then CBS, remember sometimes less is more

What I watched: ABC - My station is one of the Belos that takes ABC's 720p and upconverts it to 1080i, really that usually doesn't bother me as the picture is usually great anyway. The picture was nice clean with more muted colors than CBS, but much better graphics.

Something's off: NBC - Just like Ben said, the colors were almost identical to ABCs, but it seemed to have edge enhancement or something. They were doing something to the signal that I couldn't quite put my finger on.

Honorable Mention: HDNet - Thanks for playing HDNet, and I don't mean that sarcastically. I am kind of wishing now that they have Dan Rather HDNet will cover more live news stories. I really appreciate what they do on a budget that the big boys go through in a minute. The picture was great, audio problems galore after the speech, but what was up with the delay? They were easily off by several seconds.

Better Catch up... QUICK: Fox - Come on.. Terrible SD Widescreen, I would have thought I needed glasses had I not known better. The more and more people start watching HD, the more and more people are going to stop watching Fox News reports... oh wait, maybe that's a good thing!!

I really can't wait until they have a full budget news department in HD, I know that CNN-HD is coming to DirectTV but I really hope my cable company picks it up too. I don't understand why people complain about HD being too good? (blemishes, wrinkles, etc.) What?! Who doesn't love watching parts of the world on DiscoveryHD this will make people be more interested b/c the news will be prettier. Seriously, the more natural a person looks, the better they come across in HD. I think that the celebrity flawless obsession just needs to end, just like people with weird voices couldn't get jobs once "talkies" came around, people w/o natural looks will just have to fall by the wayside, hell there will only be thousands of people willing to step up to the plate!!