Pre-Season HD: NFL to stream 50 NFL games in HD

Even the NFL sees the value of HD, and they have released details of a planned pre-season streaming HD plan for all 50 NFL games in the exhibition season, bringing full HD clarity to the NFL experience for those who can’t get enough of the gridiron. More details:

Don’t have the NFL Network but still want to catch every single pre-season NFL game in HD? Well you finally have an option with NFL Preseason Live. It’ll cost you $40 for the over 50 live broadcasts, as well as on demand access, but what is particularly cool is access to either team’s radio broadcast (we assume it is synced up to the video) as well as enhancements like Big Play Markers — whatever that is. If you click through you can get a taste of what it’s like by watching last year’s Super Bowl, looks good up to 3Mbps. Now before you get all excited about the idea that this is a prelude to regular season games coming to the internet, just hold on there. The pre-season games are night and day when compared to regular season when you’re talking licensing rights. While the regular season rights are part of some of the biggest TV deals ever, the pre-season rights are usually sold to local affiliates; which always makes it fun to see the quality of the broadcast with considerably smaller budgets.

We like the move, exposing more fans to the wonders of HD in any medium is something we can always appreciate.

Sunday’s Super Bowl HDTV Deal-O-Rama

It’s Sunday, and the biggest NFL game of the year is on today! In celebration of this football fanatic’s dream day, here’s a few great HDTVs for your pleasure:

Walmart.com – We all know Wallie-Mart has great price, but this one is really good: a Coby TFTV3217 32” LCD HDTV for $298.00 – with free shipping as well? Now that’s value, folks.

BuyDig.com – Our readers are no doubt aware of our affinity for LG, and this one is pretty straight up an amazing deal: the monstrous LG 55LH40 55” 1080p LCD HDTV for $1295.00 (Use the ‘See price in cart’ feature) and with free shipping. Huge and tasty!

Thanks for reading, and happy Super Bowl Sunday to all of you.

HDTV schedule for August 30th, 2009

AMC (720p) has Mad Men at 10 p.m.
NBC (1080i) airs Bears/Broncos Sunday Night Football at 8 p.m.
Syfy (1080i) presents High Plains Invaders at 9 p.m.
MTV (1080i) has America’s Best Dance Crew at 9 p.m.
History (720p) has Pawn Star$ at 10 p.m.
HBO (1080i) lines up True Blood at 9 p.m., Hung at 10 p.m. and Entourage at 10:30 p.m.
ESPN (720p) has Braves/Phillies baseball at 8 p.m.

A nice selection of TV tonight, including some NFL football and MLB baseball to tickle your sports bone, and a new True Blood, Hung and Entourage for those lucky enough to get HBO in their homes.

The excellent Mad Men comes on AMC as well, a new episode for your enjoyment.

There’s really something for everyone tonight, pretty much, as the HDTV world continues to expand its lineup of quality programming available every night of the week.