NHL Centre Ice for 2007/08 on BEV

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Anyone that watched tonights Leafs/Sabres game on Centre Ice HD(866) can help me out here. I turned it on for a few minutes and got the typical blocky image everytime played moved up and down the ice. Now this is not coloured blocks I see, it is the same colour as the image on the screen and is especially noticeable on the ice, even in SD games. Sometimes it almost looks like there is a slight red haze to the blocks, but very slight that it doesn't stick out so much. Does anyone else see these blocky games?

I'm going to the store I bought my plasma from Wednesday to see if it does the same on their setup and if not going back Thursday to see if it is my receiver, if not, I hope they'll replace the tv again. This would be the second replacement in just a month. By the way, I didn't notice any of these blocks on the first tv I had, but there were other issues.
 
Pens-Ducks is on 866 NHLHD1 as of my program guide right now.
Pens game Friday night is not HD as its on NHL Network only (which is non-HD)
 
If a game carried by a regional Snet is blacked out in other regions, how does this protect local TV rights holders if the game is not carried by anyone else in the other regions? Why can't Snet hold national rights?
 
Tonight's game, Tor vs Edm (from Winnipeg), indicates that it is unavailable in Western ONT, Man, SASK, Alberta, NWT, and Nunavut.
 
That's fine for the crowd with residential receivers in your house, but a commercial receiver needs to be hand tuned and in this case access is restricted, so I'd like to know in advance.

Never mind, you wouldn't understand.
 
We wouldn't want the promoters in Winnipeg to get short changed a few gate recepts that could potentially come from a few casual fans from Inuvik who may decide to make the 4500km drive down to the 'peg to catch the game sice they wont be able to catch the game on the tube.
 
I believe it WAS on channel 420 last year, no idea what transponder, etc, if that matters. It was 'multi-view' or something like that.
 
^^^^^yep

Oilers never lifited the blackout for some reason

It says on info that Ottawa and the NHL lifited the blackout for the east region(ottawa region,quebec, atlantic provinces) for the phi vs ott game in london
 
Has anyone else noticed some macroblocking/compression artifacts on the ice during any of the HD broadcasts, only visible during fast camera pans? I'm watching on a 58" Panasonic Plasma.
 
Because TSN pays top dollar for National rights. SNET did not.

NHL has same blackout rules as NBA and extremely similar to MLB.
 
redskull, you just HAVE to be mistaken, Agent is NEVER wrong.

Please check again, are you sure you are in Moncton.?
 
Nope, wouldn't understand. Just letting you know not to expect that channel till the regular season starts at that is what it has been in the past.
 
Center Ice is a package where you could see "out of the market" games. You will never see you local team on NHL Center Ice.

Since there is no team in NB, IPE and NS clients of these province think they are not subject to black outs. In fact Montreal Canadiens are considered their local teamand their games will never be played on the Center Ice package. Since some games are not played on TSN or Sportsnet clients of these province often have to add Le monde en fran
 
Has anybody found a schedule of the games that is downloadable?
Last year I had a real nice PDF of all the games for the season and what NHLCI channel Bell ran them on as well as the HD feeds and the local network feeds.

Do we know if the NHLH1 to NHLH4 mirror the SD NHL1 to NHL4??

I'm trying to set up a bank of commercial 1 channel receivers and if the HD1-4 are the same as the SD 1-4 then I can just use the SD on NHL5-10 for the balance.
 
Ordered NHL Centre Ice...now I find out I don't get any of the PPV games that the Flames have. I want to bomb that place. I could have ordered each individual game on PPV for 12.95 a piece plus tax and those 14 games would have added up to the $200 I paid for the Centre Ice Package. Then I only would have missed 5 games total all season that aren't televised by Sportsnet, TSN, or CBC, or the PPV. Man I hate getting screwed. If I had read this thread before all this I wouldn't be screwed too. I wish those tech people at Bell were educated and told you straight out what games you would and wouldnt' get...or there was a program list for your area that would tell you what games you would get and wouldn't get. Not only that but I can't even cancel my subscription mid way through the season...even though I am paying in installments. It seems now aday if you don't research every last thing you buy you get screwed on something. I'm just so upset cause I can't afford to put another $200 to hockey this year to get those PPV games and if I hadn't orderd this Centre Ice I could have had them.
 
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