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Article #751Re: Seven/Prime and its Contempt for Sports Viewers
From: Brad
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:58
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:58
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On Saturday, March 3, 2012 3:52:25 PM UTC+11, Marts wrote: > While listening to the news bulletin on the car radio I heard that the Clipsal > 500 V8 race was on today. > > So, when I got home I flicked on the box to see that Prime (a rural Seven > affiliate) was showing the V8s on its SD channel. > > The blokey 7Mate wasn't showing it. > > I find this quite extraordinary. Why have HD channels if they aren't going to > maximise the benefits for the viewers? The V8s is a premium product for the > Seven Network. So why waste it on SD? > > And the picture quality is quite ordinary, too. Because with the bandwidth constraints of running 4 channels, HD is now unsuitable for fast motion sports.
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