Not sure if this will be a sore topic since I've seen stories in UK about sky not delivering HD boxes on time but anyway.

Although I watched the last euro championships in HD here (on a 32" toshiba widescreen) which was better than usual, it has only been this year watching the world cup in HD on 109" screen (using an infocus screenplay 5700) the picture has been stunning. It seems like you can see so much more of the pitch, tell who's on the ball rather than generic red splodge or whatever.

My watching has been supplemented by a scientific atlanta explorer 8300HD PVR terminal so I can record all the games while I'm away (games here start at 9am, with the latest starting at 3pm) at work. When I get back I can't tell any degredation of pic quality.

I'm hoping by the time the premiership starts up again they sort out HD because I don't want to go back now.

anyone else managing to watch it in HD?

Yes ... CH7 Digital HD in Chicago (Off Air for free!)

Me to on Brighthouse Networks.

ABC HDTV, ESPN HD but not ESPN2HD as they only have that in digital not HD :-( 2 our of 3 ain't bad.

Cracking picture on my new shiny Mitsubishi 52" DLP.

Yes and in glorious widescreen too. I don't have 5.1 so don't know what that brings but am happy enough with the picture. However, I must say that on some fast panning shots I do see some pixelation (is that a word?) but for the most part I have no complaints whatsoever.

I do have a gripe here in Ottawa in that it takes 3 providers to cover the tournament here and in order to get one of them - HD TSN, was told to buy an additional SD package in order to get it. Why would I want more SD? Go figure! Anyway, I found that I can get most of the HD TSN games on OMNI so that fixes that for the most part, even if don't understand the audio (OMNI is providing audio in the foreign language of one of the teams.)

I agree, I hope we get the EPL in HD this coming season....

adios
tim

ABC & ESPN2 in 5.1 & HD with comcast in Maryland. Shame the commentators aren't up to the same standard as the picture!

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Yes and in glorious widescreen too. I don't have 5.1 so don't know what that brings but am happy enough with the picture. However, I must say that on some fast panning shots I do see some pixelation (is that a word?) but for the most part I have no complaints whatsoever.

I see some pixelation occasionally, but not always with fast moving shots. I had been putting it down to either occasional lack of bandwidth, or just a bad signal every now and then rather than the speed of movement as most of the time it's fine. I would guess it happens 2 to 3 times a game on average.

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anyone else managing to watch it in HD?

Yes, I am watching via a Sky HD box and a Pioneer PDP436 and the pictures are stunning. Only after watching HD do you realise the severe limitations of a standard definition broadcast. Players have real shape and detail, as do people in the crowd - on standard definition they are just blobs.
John

yes got it through my humax and 42 hitachi plas got wimbledon today.its so good.regards munch