British Open Will Not Be in High Definition? Hell, I'm in High Definition
by Ryan Ballengee on Jul 6, 2009 1:05 PM EDT
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PrintStarting with this past weekend at the AT&T National, Waggle Room began shooting all of its videos in kind of stunning 720p HD. All it took was buying the $150 Kodak Zi6 camera and pointing and shooting. So when Fanhouse reports that ABC/ESPN and TNT will not be showing the Open Champion in HD (via HD Sportsguide), I am naturally miffed:
After good news about the Tour de France and Wimbeldon being in HD, one of our favorite sporting events will once again be given as an SD up-conversion. The British Open Golf Tournament, scheduled to begin Thursday the 16th will not be in High Definition on TNT or ABC. . . again.
This means that we'll have the same video quality at this year's Open Championship as we had for the 1977 Duel in the Sun between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson. Awesome. Retro's making a comeback, you know.
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It’s long past time for ABC/ESPN to simply give up televising golf. The attention they do give the game is simply horrid, and about ten or fifteen years behind CBS or NBC. Mike Tirico is adequate, but so sycophantic to Tiger you have to wonder if he even realizes there are another 100+ other players in the field. And no HD? In 2009?
What a joke they are…and a bad one at that.
Inexcusable.
If xxx Golf Channel can get HD feeds of European Tour events, it is damn near unconscionable that The Open will be televised 1980s-style.
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." - Winston Churchill
And you’ll be happy to know that ESPN has the British Open (all on cable) for the next eight years!
Email me any comments or questions at ryan@thegolfnewsnet.com.
oh joy – and you can bet that there will be a few Chris Berman sightings around the Open links
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Ugh. Just...ugh.
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." - Winston Churchill
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