Picture is perfect using DirecTV HD feed. Maybe they have to decide and format the picture for either HD or SD viewer. Anyway watch the HD feed on DirecTV and you're good.

I get the Speed TV broadcast on Verizon. I watch the non-HD broadcast and can't even see the lap counter during the race--how many laps remaining? Beats me! Very frustrating! In reading the posts, it seems that those who watch the HD broadcasts see the entire image while thos who watch the non-HD broadcast have the problems. Hope Speed can sove this problem soon.

People keep saying that it's the SD channel with the problems, but the screen shots I posted were from the SD capture I did from the first three races.

Thanks for your help,,,, Yes It was the prime reason I switched, there were many other reasons, better picture, HD etc. What countries F1 transmission do you watch? do you get the correct broadcast?

I say No nascar prerace, and No NASCAR.

Look, I have Comcast cable, and I have Dish network. I have 3 televisions. One HD and two normal.
On the HD TV I have tried zoom, and 1080p and 720.
The broadcast is missing the top row of data exactly the same from Comcast and dish.
It is NOT a TV or equipment issue.
This looks to me like a USA only Speed TV Issue.


Moderator: can you bring to Speeds attention please.

Binkoba - 21 April 2009 10:49 AM

Look, I have Comcast cable, and I have Dish network. I have 3 televisions. One HD and two normal.
On the HD TV I have tried zoom, and 1080p and 720.
The broadcast is missing the top row of data exactly the same from Comcast and dish.
It is NOT a TV or equipment issue.
This looks to me like a USA only Speed TV Issue.


Moderator: can you bring to Speeds attention please.

Yeah...all anyone needs to do to see that it's not an issue with individual tvs is just read this thread. It's not that hard to decipher.

I have Directv. Everything was normal when I was watching the Chinese GP live, but when I flipped to the re-air on Monday some of the picture was cut off. I also had the picture go from messed up to normal during one of the practice sessions. I can't remember which race weekend though.

When I play around with my settings I can see that the 4:3 feed from Speed is off. The graphics on the 4:3 feed are in the wrong places.

Honestly though, it is worse than that. When we use our 16:9 TV's to stretch out the 4:3 feed we are losing a good deal of the picture. If you look at my post on page 6, you can see just how much is lost. In other shots it is worse, cutting out grandstands, cars down the straight, etc.

Would the better option really be that Speed use the 16:9 feed with 4:3 safezones. That way the majority (I would think) of us with 16:9 get a better picture, and those still on 4:3 still get a picture that is not compromised. By using the 4:3 feed (which I guess is really a 16:9 feed from the FOM that somebody else is hard cropping down to 4:3), it is hurting the viewers.

So the current broadcast hurts the widescreen viewers, we get either distorted cars or missing graphics, along with not seeing all the screen (made worse that a true 16:9 feed shows even more).

But going to a proper 16:9 feed with 4:3 safezone graphics really hurts nobody. The 4:3 TV's simply only display the 4:3 zone, without distorting the picture. Or at least mine did.

stefmeister - 20 April 2009 06:52 PM

Here's how the BBC Broadcast loosk on my TV:


As you can see the lap counter is not even close to been cut off.

Here is a shot of the BBC broadcast captured directly from the Satellite, again as you can see the lap counter is not even close to been cut off:



So far the only people I've haerd mention this as a problem are those watching on SPEED so its definately a SPEED problem & not a problem with FOM or the World-feed.

Here is an example of how much of the picture we are losing compared to the true 16:9 feed. Thanks for posting these Stef!


From the BBC feed - see post above (16:9)


Speed feed - zoomed to fill 16:9


Speed 4:3 feed


Note that Stef gets to see another car in the picture.. Well almost 1 and a 1/4 cars actually. You can also note that when our TV's are zooming to fill the screen, we are losing clarity in the image as well. Not bad enough that we are on an SD feed, just insult to injury really.

When I set my tv to 16:9 it doesn't zoom the 4:3, it just stretches it. Nothing that is on the screen gets cut off. It looks kind of funny but I have become used to it. If I zoom in when in 4:3 then some of the image gets cut off.