Ken Aagaard, EVP of Engineering, Operations and Production Services of CBS Sports has announced that 2008 season’s NFL coverage will mark the last in the transition to end-to-end HD. Ken also said that they have a contractual obligation with the NFL to bring all in high-definition in 2009 but this year they are on track and very close to achieving that.
“All of our trucks and game sites will be HD. Everything will be produced in 16×9, 1080i HD,” Aagaard says. “Our issue right now is that we may not be able to distribute completely in HD. It depends on our networking. There are occasions where there will be issues. For example, in a double-header, a late game may start in 4×3 until we can free up distribution equipment from the earlier game to get the HD signal out. It’s very possible we will have no problems all year. Still, there’s a multitude of circumstances were we can’t transmit in HD, and these may surface during the season.”
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