That won’t help us this year: BBC swears they’ll do the Open Championship in HD…next year
July 17, 2009 by Derek
Excuses, excuses…major sports events almost need to be in HD these days, and the British Open golf tournament apparently isn’t going to be in HD. If I were a golf fan, i’d be very upset right now.
And to make it worse: the BBC swore at a news conference Wednesday that next year’s tournament would be in high definition all the way around, but that this year, they didn’t want to invest in HD cameras (required to broadcast shows in HD). Sounds like they’re pinching their pennies (or pence, as the case may be).
As it stands, even with first to last swing widescreen coverage from ABC/TNT, and DirecTV doing their HD Mix channel thing, we’ll know it won’t be in HD as it should be. For shame, BBC.
