Cricket telecast should be left to the experts

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Picture quality isn't as good as it could be. Not even in widescreen, which is a TV basic for sports coverage these days.

Does India even have widescreens..?? :confused:

 

[icyman]

No...they do not.

 

[Skater]

I agree with you- Doordashan seems quite poor at televising cricket. The BCCI logo is very large and is very annoying, and simple features are missing. The feed has also been lost about 8 times in the first three days of the test. It's a joy to watch South Africa v Australia right now as the presentation is top notch.

 

[Ste]

I agree with you- Doordashan seems quite poor at televising cricket. The BCCI logo is very large and is very annoying, and simple features are missing. The feed has also been lost about 8 times in the first three days of the test. It's a joy to watch South Africa v Australia right now as the presentation is top notch.

Its Nimbus who are producing it not Doordashan though. Doordashan just show it in India having paid Nimbus to show it.

 

[siddharth2002]

Just came across this thread, It seems pretty much expected as what I expereinced back in India. Now I can go on and on ranting on it but it hardly makes any difference.
The most stupid thing I found out was the BCCI logo being displayed here and there. Thats was *explicitely deleted* stupid and coupled with what BCCI are upto with the ICC calendar thing, they are making quite a name for us Indians. My friends here are asking me about things and giving some healthy and tasty comments too on the issues. Well if the board cannot handle the Ganguly issue properly, what do you expect from them. Nimbus is just a new comer otherwise a very professional and successful company. They will work on their mistakes hopefully but BCCI certainly needs "a booted bony thing with five toes at the end of ICC's leg connecting sharply with the soft dangly collection of objects in their trousers".

 

[SaiSrini]

I agree with you here! I have been noticing the coverage (on Dish here in the US) and its below average. The zooming in of the camera is bad. For example, Kaif is shown in a real close up and it goes to the default camera view only after he has played the shot. His face is shown in real close up view when he is playing a shot. Awful!

The Hawkeye was above average though. In fact, I found it better than what we saw during the india-pakistan series. i felt it looked better!

Commentary team has been the best in my opinion. Great guys like David Gower, Nasser Hussain, Dean Jones (my favorite!), Javagal Srinath, L.Sivaramakrishnan (the only average guy!) and Ian Botham... Great team I should say!

They do not show pre-match and post match analysis in here for the Dish viewers and I find that disappointing here!

And very often, I find this screen of "We are experiencing technical difficulties from our program provider. Stay tuned". So obviously Nimbus is not providing a good feed to the Dish people and that is spoiling the show. This happens in the middle of an over and its really irritating!

So yeah, below average cricket broadcast!

 

[harishankar]

Commentary team has been the best in my opinion. Great guys like David Gower, Nasser Hussain, Dean Jones (my favorite!), Javagal Srinath, L.Sivaramakrishnan (the only average guy!) and Ian Botham... Great team I should say!

The only problem here is that Doordarshan decides that they're not good enough and force feeds us with Hindi commentary every half hour...

Sahara is still not on air. Even if I'm willing to pay for it I cannot get it, it looks like the cable operators have not yet received decoders for this channel.

Maddening and extremely unprofessional. But what else would you expect from an obscure, third-rate Bollywood masala channel which suddenly sees a golden opportunity to make big money? You expect this...

 

[Adarsh]

The only problem here is that Doordarshan decides that they're not good enough and force feeds us with Hindi commentary every half hour...

Sahara is still not on air. Even if I'm willing to pay for it I cannot get it, it looks like the cable operators have not yet received decoders for this channel.

Maddening and extremely unprofessional. But what else would you expect from an obscure, third-rate Bollywood masala channel which suddenly sees a golden opportunity to make big money? You expect this...

harishankar, I know you are from Tamil Nadu and probably not very eloquent at Hindi. However, Hindi is the most popular language in India so it does make sense that they show some of it in Hindi as well, as there are more Hindi speaking people than English speaking people in India. Just get on with it. Atleast you get to watch the cricket, forget about the commentary meanwhile.

 

[andrew_nixon]

On the language issue, why not do what they do in South Africa? They show it on two channels, one with English commentary and one with Afrikaans commentary.

 

[harishankar]

harishankar, I know you are from Tamil Nadu and probably not very eloquent at Hindi. However, Hindi is the most popular language in India so it does make sense that they show some of it in Hindi as well, as there are more Hindi speaking people than English speaking people in India. Just get on with it.

It takes away the enjoyment of watching the game to such an extent that I stop watching it when Hindi is on... I am quite interested in the commentary, so it sucks to watch without the regular commentators.

Anyway, we get Sahara One from today. I'm not sure what happened, but I guess the cable operators must have come to some agreement...

 

[varunvgiri]

harishankar, I know you are from Tamil Nadu and probably not very eloquent at Hindi. However, Hindi is the most popular language in India so it does make sense that they show some of it in Hindi as well, as there are more Hindi speaking people than English speaking people in India. Just get on with it. Atleast you get to watch the cricket, forget about the commentary meanwhile.

Hindi commentary is allright if its quality commentary. Instead what we get is truly radio stuff. But they do entertain us with a variety of blunders.

On the other hand the English commentary team is quite good and what they say is informative. I find nothing informative in the Hindi commentary

 

[abhishek_1]

this is bad, we don't get ten sports in our village so i missed out the indo-pak test series and watched the silly highlights on dd national with that hitler Atul Wassan. and i must quote ur point that nimbus doesn't have hawkeye technology but they do have super slow motion.

 

[barmyarmy]

It takes away the enjoyment of watching the game to such an extent that I stop watching it when Hindi is on... I am quite interested in the commentary, so it sucks to watch without the regular commentators.

Anyway, we get Sahara One from today. I'm not sure what happened, but I guess the cable operators must have come to some agreement...

Very much enjoyed reading what you wrote about this here.
I noticed, watching the 6 nations on digital a few weeks ago there was a choice of commentaries for the same feed. BBC Radio Scotland, BBC, or BBC Scotland, a well as a referee one. You can't even turn the commentary off and listen to the radio in India either because of the rights dispute there.

 

[harishankar]

Barmyarmy, thanks

I noticed, watching the 6 nations on digital a few weeks ago there was a choice of commentaries for the same feed.

Yes, since we don't have digital broadcasting in a big way right now and Doordarshan is definitely not a digital channel.

It seems a strange situation: we have the existing technology to deal with such issues and yet the channels continue to remain analog since a large part of the country still doesn't have digital broadcasting capabilities.

 

[y2j826]

in some states of india espn and star sports r not telecasting by cable operators due to pay channel, so if india's matches will be telecasted there then its not possible for all peoples to watch that one. so might its better to watch it on DD sports other then to miss a game.