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>may have to do with the quality of the optics and electronics used by the TV unit doing the
>coverage, as well as image degradation from being bounced around on satelite..... I've seen some
>really murky images from European Television in the past. I would guess, to start with, that the
>production quality is not the same as say, monday night football.
There is also the necessary conversion from the European video standards to US video standards -- a
non-trivial process which degrades the signal, and thus the picture quality, greatly. Don't ask me
to explain it all -- I used to know, but I've forgotten all the details. Things like converting 625
scan lines to 525, 50 fields/sec to 60, etc.
Andy