TNT Sports motion blur

[FastEddie1]

For a few weeks now I've noticed that motion blur is occurring on TNT Sports channels.

I've had these channels for years from the BT Sport days but the issue has only started fairly recently. 

The worst sport for this is snooker, with the balls, especially reds, blurring as they are hit. But I've noticed it on other sports too, especially when there are bright oranges and reds moving fast.

Other channels like Sky Sports and BBC/ITV dont show any such problem, so I know it's not my tv or Sky box.

Has anyone else suffered this, it's really annoying me now.

[TechGuy007]

I've also noticed a sharp drop in picture quality on TNT Sports HD channels since the start of the football season. Quite a lot of digital artefacts, like blurring around the edge of player's shirts, some really odd effects if the camera is pointing at floodlights, where there is a kind of halo effect. The picture quality on TNT Sports used to be excellent, probably better than Sky Sports. I guess they are using new picture software designed to save some bandwidth, but at a significant cost to picture quality. 

[FastEddie1]

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@TechGuy007 wrote:

I've also noticed a sharp drop in picture quality on TNT Sports HD channels since the start of the football season. Quite a lot of digital artefacts, like blurring around the edge of player's shirts, some really odd effects if the camera is pointing at floodlights, where there is a kind of halo effect. The picture quality on TNT Sports used to be excellent, probably better than Sky Sports. I guess they are using new picture software designed to save some bandwidth, but at a significant cost to picture quality. 

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Thanks. Glad it's not just me !

Maybe all the extra sport TNT is now showing (from Eurosport) has led to this issue ?

Whatever it is, I'm not happy.

[TechGuy007]

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@FastEddie1 wrote:

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@TechGuy007 wrote:

I've also noticed a sharp drop in picture quality on TNT Sports HD channels since the start of the football season. Quite a lot of digital artefacts, like blurring around the edge of player's shirts, some really odd effects if the camera is pointing at floodlights, where there is a kind of halo effect. The picture quality on TNT Sports used to be excellent, probably better than Sky Sports. I guess they are using new picture software designed to save some bandwidth, but at a significant cost to picture quality. 

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Thanks. Glad it's not just me !

Maybe all the extra sport TNT is now showing (from Eurosport) has led to this issue ?

Whatever it is, I'm not happy.

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I keep thinking "is this a cynical strategy to force people to get UHD?".  I watched one of the recent England games on ITV and the picture quality was outstanding. Why can't all HD broadcasts be like that? 

[FastEddie1]

The current  snooker tournament is on ITV4 and there's no issues at all, perfect picture with no motion blur.

Maybe I should cancel TNT Sport in protest at their **bleep** service ?

[FastEddie1]

I've just seen clips of the Wales v New Zealand game  on the BBC 1 News (from TNT Sports who had it live).

And there it was, motion blur on the red shirts of Wales.

I'm so glad the UK Championship  Snooker isnt on TNT next week.

[TechGuy007]

@KevNewMedia Can this be investigated please? Sky customers are paying a premium for TNT Sports, and there has been a very noticeable deterioration in picture quality on all their channels since the start of this season. As has been pointed out on this thread, there is a blurring/shimmering effect that is particularly noticeable on red coloured shirts, especially in close ups. When shirts have stripes, a shimmering effect is also apparent. Overall, the picture quality is barely HD, looking like either a low bit rate or some sort of encoding issue. TNT Sports (and before it, BT Sports) used to be the benchmark for picture quality, so something has changed. Whether it's at the broadcast end or further down the chain doesn't matter to the customer, as Sky customers are being left with picture quality that is sub standard. Would be really grateful if this could be looked into ASAP. 

[KevNewMedia · Accepted solution]

Morning Everyone

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and thanks for tagging us @TechGuy007 

I've passed the details to our support teams, who will raise this with TNT Sports. As soon as we have more information, we'll let you know.

I'm going to mark this post as the current answer, so that everyone has the most up-to-date information.