Is it just me or does the Olympic TV image look horrible?

[tridim]

The commercials are as clear as a bell, but the competition video is this nasty, grainy, high-contrast, overly bright, annoyingly ugly image. I think it's a byproduct of the HDTV signal converted to analog for regular TV. It's unacceptable IMO.

[libnnc]

1. I noticed it last night and thought it was just my tv.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Yes! I thought it was my TV, too.

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. I noticed it too.

Tonight, during the snowboarding competition, the sound was tinny and awful, and the tracks in the snow created an awful moire effect. I thought someone slipped me acid...

[tridim]

4. The worst part is it makes the athletes look really unattractive

Like they all have skin cancer on their faces. I'm going to complain to NBC just for the heck of it.

[begin_within]

5. They put it through some kind of sharpening filter that ruins it.

It is just terrible, horrible. And the camera work at some points is also horrible. The cameraman at the end of the half-pipe snowboard run is drunk off his ass and can't hold the camera still. Also the cameras during the figure skating are zoomed in way too close to the skaters.