This Week in HD Sports, Volume 1 Issue 3: Weekly Live HD Sports Programming Guide
Summary
The third issue of This Week in HD Sports previews a packed week of live HD broadcasts including PGA Golf, NBA Playoffs, NHL Stanley Cup, NASCAR, MLB, Arena Football, and college bicycle racing across ESPN-HD, HDNet, INHD, CBS HD, and HBO-HD. The guide highlights Saturday as the most sports-rich HD day with six possible live events and praises HDTV's 16:9 widescreen format for transforming the viewing experience of hockey and soccer.
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Tom’s ‘Black 8 Ball’ predictions for HDSports this week
Most watched: the NBA Playoffs Friday night on ESPN-HD.
Most traditional: INHD (4) & ESPN-HD (1) bring us five HD MLB games. Most frightening: gotta be NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs on ESPN-HD. Most varied: HD Sports/Day: Saturday, with 6 possible ‘Live HD’ events. Most quick-action: HBO-HD brings us Saturday night Boxing and my favorite! Most Speed: NASCAR HD on HDNet Sunday.
Guys, please your lady with this one. Hmmm, OK- well, ah yeah, for our women... TWinHDSports readers: Get home early on Friday because we get HD WomenÂ’s Bicycle Racing: HDNet 5:00pm ET presents the first of two cool events: Indiana UniversityÂ’s Little 500 WomenÂ’s Race. The MenÂ’s big cycling race is Saturday. These 2 are classic races and the largest annual intramural event for college racing cyclists. What great bicycle coverage in HDTV!
Of course, main stream sports programming in HD. MLB, MLS, NBA playoffs, Golf, NHL Stanley Cup... From last week: lasting impressions from this writer are the bone jarring & stunning, ‘Live’ ESPN-HD pictures & sound of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. Nothing like the wide screen 16:9 format & advanced high resolution of HDTV to really bring the NHL Hockey Rink to life. HD Soccer is also much improved (Ever had good seats at a Hockey match, then tried watching the action by looking through the bottom of your popcorn box? That’s your old SDTV4:3 format!) NOTE: Active TWiHDSports reader, Hi Al, wrote: MLS Soccer is on HDNet Every Sat night, for remainder of this MLS season. Thanks
The usual disclaimer: I believe all these programs are HDTV “Live” broadcasts. Start times are all ET, best available at press time. Tom’s notes: I like Auto Racing so I listed Nascar, though not Live, it’s a “Same Day, Tape Delay” at 5pm ET. Cheers. PVRs etc. Check your local listings.
HD Sports hit list for this week...
Friday:
TodayÂ’s HD Sports starts with nice 2nd round PGA Golf: INHD
3:00PM, Hold on, it builds fast. We
get our first viewing of ‘Live’ HD Bicycle Racing! HDNet,
5:00pm ET. If youÂ’re on the Right
Coast, you may know whatÂ’s up next: HOT ticket: ESPN-HD
7:00pm, NBA Playoffs Indiana Pacer at
Boston Celtics, from the Fleet
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Saturday:
CBS HD 3:00pm ET: PGA Golf, shows
Shell Houston Open, Redstone Golf Club, hosted by the HGA, Sunday:
ESPN-HD 1:00pm ET shoots & makes 1+1, with their second NBA Playoff from
Boston in 3 days.
http://www.nba.com/playoffs2004 Veteran HD provider CBS Sports,
3:00pm ET, continues with Final Round PGA Golf coverage. INHD
4:30pm ET shows MLB Padres at Arizona Diamondbacks. Speed it up with
NASCAR Grand National Div. Busch North Series, comes on HDNet from Lee USA
Speedway, NH. 5:00pm ET(Delayed). This will be a good look at
Northeast area drivers in this regional series. 8:00pm ET Sunday is
now home to HD MLBaseball. ESPN Sunday
Monday: ESPN-HD 8:00pm ET keeps slamming the boards with NHL Stanley Cup Playoff action. San Jose Sharks at Colorado Avalanche. INHDÂ’s MLB coverage lists Seattle at Baltimore OÂ’s 7:00pm ET
Tuesday: Quiet day for HD Sports, INHDÂ’s keeps it going with MLB: Seattle at Baltimore OÂ’s again
Wednesday: Face-Off! More NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, ESPN-HD 7:00pm ET
I will be bringing on more HD related Sports news in the coming weeks. Special Page 2 sections, MLB HD, NASCAR Autoracing in HD: including the latest from HDTV Racing coverage provider, HDNet, reported direct from Trackside. We’re hoping to take you to an ESPN-HD Sunday night Baseball game. Giving you more inside info. from TWinHDSports, on what it takes to put these great HDTV broadcasts together. Remember that these HD programs are ”Live” beamed right to your HDTV Home Theatre system.
Programs listed are National HD feeds which are served up with the, “may or may not be available in your area”. FoxNetHD is, at this time, regional although they may start popping up all over the dial.
Corrections: Last week Page2 mentioned an 18-week NFL sched. Wrong: is a 17-week NFL sched. With one bye (off) week for each Team.
LetÂ’s keep watching HD Sports. Forward any comments, corrections, additional info or suggestions to [email protected]. Personal notes, barbs, jokes or most anything else you care to fwd my way, send to the email(s) below. Regards,
Tom Vrolyk San Francisco, CA
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week with Baseball. If youÂ’re bored, I would check on ESPN-HD at
4:30pm. Only the SDTV (4:3) Stanley
Cup playoff is listed, keep checking their HD Sports web page, seems itÂ’s
changing almost daily:
Center? Oh, I miss Boston Gardens. Hmmm, DonÂ’t get ESPN-HD? Easy,
find someone or somewhere that does! Link to the new Boston Fleet Center +
click to the history of the “Gaadens”
Houston Golf Assoc.. LetÂ’s check HDNet: also
3PM ET, MenÂ’s Bicycle racing, same. NBA is next, ESPN-HD
7:00pm ET Sac. Kings at Dallas Mavs in
this fine match up. Football fanatic? AFL jumps on the HD Sports radar:
Arena Pro Football. This fast running, walled & wacky, exciting game comes
on ***INHD2 8:00pm ET***=Odd Channel.
HDNet MLS continues Sat. 10:00pm ET
with MLS Columbus Crew at LA Galaxy. Boxing is on HBO at
9:30pm ET
Night
Baseball, Atlanta Braves visit the World Champion, Wow what a series!
Florida Marlins. Broadcast is HD 720p as all ESPN/ABC HD broadcasts
originate.