Tellytrack picture poor pixel

Is there a reason why the picture broadcast from Kenilworth looks so poor, even on my nice new HD tv?

It is so pixelated, if that is a word, that the horses are basically a collection of compressed blocks and colour smudges. The picture is often worse on the replays later. All the other channels shine.

Maybe Bonski or someone in the know can explain and maybe offer some hope for the future. Other sports only broadcast in high res now and there must be huge bandwidth space left over from the soccer.

If a French jock wears a watch in France, you can tell the time on the quality picture they broadcast. Horse racing here lives in low res and we don't even have a standard picture, never mind a good one it appears to me.

Perhaps this is a question for Lafferty and Goodman on the Good Laff Show. I know they browse here. Come on chaps, why is racing's window to the world so fogged up?

Jack was the picture fine on your old tv?

I watch online and always think capetown pictures are poor

hibernia Wrote:

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Cape Town pics ARE worse, I've noticed this myself independently. Old or cheap cameras? Or maybe something about the transmission? Like Jack says, the photos coming all the way from France are far better than those coming just from Cape Town.

Something else but maybe related: sound quality of interviews coming over the phone lines ... both on the Laff & Goodman show (de Kock) and World Focus (forget his name, the guy who sums up the English week's racing) ... is very fuzzy and hard to hear. Or am I going deaf?

The Interbet logo is poor unless u knew who they were........lol

Mav to be fair to James and Paul they do have a slight "backdoor operation", getting changed in the back of the car, into a small sudio supplied by GC, run the show, its taped no time to audit, stuck on a plane and sent to Joburg, do great under the circumstances plus the lad talking to Molly I am sure is just coming via a phone line?

hibernia Wrote:

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> I watch online and always think capetown pictures
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how do u watch online?

I agree dave,was staring at their shirts the other night wondering who the new sponsor was

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I watch on Interbet or Betfair

gregbucks Wrote:

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> Jack was the picture fine on your old tv?

Yes, everything else is fine. Pictures from most other countries is ok. US stuff not so good when they show it, but that's ntsc and it probably looses something in translation. I've had racing since IGN days, and I would think that what we are seeing is the worst I can ever remember.

I can't imagine how it can be so bad on a digital signal, unless they compress signals the way we compress photos to email them. My handycam is better. Youtube on 480 is better. Doesn't leave us much, does it?

I hope a bit of complaining might get someone to try and improve it a bit.

Jack have you sent a email to Tellytrack?

I know less than sh!t about pixels, pixies, or hi definition whatsit, but I get a better picture at home on my trusty 12 year old LG than I get at the office with our fancy flatscreens hanging on the wall. The latter pixilates the Tellytrack picture quite badly, but the other channels are fine. As I said I have the technical know-how of a dodo, but is it possible that modern TVs are too advanced for Tellytrack's antiquated technology and maybe that's why it works better on quasi-ancient TV sets?

Tellytrack can probably thank their lucky stars that SA isn't the USA when it comes to the issue of their picture. In the USA I am pretty certain that by now some bright spark would have sued them for the damage that their broadcast inflicts on a modern TV monitor.

To elaborate : They insist in broadcasting a permanent, largely unmoving picture ( particularly during overseas racing but also during every break ) displaying odds. It doesn't take too long for the template used in displaying those odds to permanently 'burn' your TV screen. If long term users of Tellytrack check you should be able to make out a permanent 'ghost' of the grid along the bottom of your flatscreen.

There is a process available whereby you can hve it removed by the manufacturer. But it is a bit hit and miss and doesn't always prove satisfactory.

So not only is racing probably damaging your bank account but it is also writing off your TV. It's a bit disturbing watching some porn with place dividends scattered all over the writhing bodies. Lol.