http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/ Engadget HD Comments for Crown this year's NFL broadcast champion http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/Jan 24th 2007 3:36PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/
I mainly watch Fox (Eagles fan) and think that the quality varies. It's not as clean as CBS, but the production is better. I also prefer CBS audio. I hope Fox wises up and goes 1080i next season, there's an obvious difference. My biggest knock against Fox is that their ticker takes up way too much space. What's up with the grill ontop of the ticker.

So, for my money:
CBS
Fox
NBC
ESPN]]>Jan 24th 2007 3:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/
Fox has the strangest color on my set with DARK green grass, maybe its a setting on my tv but it actually looks more like watching a game of Madden 07 than NFL!

We better see a full hd lineup from cbs next season!]]>Jan 24th 2007 3:41PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/
CBS indeed has the best broadcast. Fewest artifacts, cleanest picture (likely a result of 1080i), and best audio.

ESPN/ABC are second, with good PQ overall, decent audio, but a few motion artifacts.

NBC is third primarily due to still more motion artifacts, but really almost as good as ESPN.

FOX is an absolute last place. In wide-angle pans, there are so many motion artifacts it appears as if I'm watching the old OTA UHF broadcasts. Either that, or it snows at every NFL game. But only for 3-5 seconds at a time, and only when the camera is moving. Even close-ups show artifacts. It's as if Fox is compressing their own feed before letting the providers do it (again).

/my $0.02]]>Jan 24th 2007 4:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/
They ARE compressing it. That's how they're able to show every game in HD. They made a big deal, when they started showing all the games in HD, about how they were going to be able to fit 3 or 4 games in the same bandwidth as it normally take s for one. Unfortunately, the picture quality suffers (Wide shots look *horrible*).

CBS doesn't do this, so that's part of the reason why they have a better picture quality, and why they don't broadcast every game in HD (not enough bandwidth yet).]]>Jan 26th 2007 1:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/
Considering every game NBC did (Sunday night) was in HD, plus the fact that they scored the best announcers in the NFL from MNF, I'd have to go with NBC.

CBS would be runner-up, but as other have said, not every game was in HD.

ESPN is usually good, though I can NOT stand the new MNF announcers.

Fox is absolutely the worst. I want to throttle Joe Buck every time he opens his ignorant mouth!]]>Jan 24th 2007 4:34PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/
My ranking would be.

Fox
ESPN
CBS
NFL Network
NBC]]>Jan 24th 2007 4:43PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/Jan 24th 2007 5:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/
CBS
NBC
ESPN
FOX

I'm tempted to put NBC first, but its hard to tell if it just looked better since (I think all) NBC games were night games, which look nicer with the lights on, or if it was actually a better picture.]]>Jan 24th 2007 8:14PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/Jan 24th 2007 11:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/Jan 28th 2007 8:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/Jan 26th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/24/crown-this-years-nfl-broadcast-champion/
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