The big game is just a few weeks away. You know the one I’m talking about. Because this is a blog that sometimes tries to sell you stuff, I won’t mention it by name. I don’t want to get sued. But let’s all be honest, we know the one, right? It’s on February 12.
This event is consistently the largest and most-viewed live event of the year. Even with all the growth in streaming and pay-TV services, it’s still viewed live by millions, the old-fashioned way. Why? Because you want to see what’s going on, first. You don’t want to have to wait.
What if I told you…
There’s a way that you can get the game 5-7 seconds before pay TV, 10-15 seconds before any 4K broadcast, and 15-20 seconds before most streaming? What if that also meant that you could avoid buffering, rain fade, and any other problems associated with modern television? Would that interest you? I know it would interest me.
There’s a way to do it: get a TV antenna. A TV antenna will give you the most reliable picture, unaffected by any signal issues or weather. Because the signal is coming straight from the broadcast tower, it’s getting to you faster than it would with pay-TV or streaming. With pay TV, you’re generally waiting for the game to be picked up on a local station, beamed up to a satellite, down to a broadcast center, back up, then back down to you. Even in cases where there’s a direct network feed, there’s still a delay.
With streaming it takes even longer because that feed needs to be encoded into multiple quality levels so it can go out to different people with different internet speeds. This takes time off the clock as well.
Get a TV antenna and you can skip all that. You’ll get the game in the best possible HD quality, with Dolby sound, and you’ll see the touchdown while your neighbors are still watching the quarterback make the pass.
What about 4K?
This game, the one I can’t mention by name because of the bloodsucking lawyers, is going to be made available through the Fox Sports app, and possibly though pay-TV providers like DIRECTV, in 4K. But, it won’t be “real” 4K. The best information I have at this time is that the game will be produced in HD as it has been in prior years. Then it will be upscaled to 4K for streaming.
This means you’ll get a very good quality image, but there won’t be any more detail than you can get from an HD broadcast. The over-the-air broadcast not only has all the details that the 4K broadcast does but it also doesn’t suffer from problems due to repeated decompression and recompression. Bottom line, it’s going to look great.
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