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MLB in London technical question.

Don CT

Don CT

So Fox and ESPN aired the weekend Yankees Red Sox games in London. The games on Fox were simulcast on the BBC. What format were they using NTSC or Pal?
 
Yes. Format converters have been around for years. NTSC (or the current US digital format) for the US, and PAL (or the current British digital format) for the UK.
 
I don't think this was actually broadcast OTA in the UK, only streamed via Iplayer. I caught a few moments of it, but I think it was only a stream. It definitely wasn't on BBC1 or BBC 2 and I think the only other BBC OTA slot was being used for Glastonbury coverage.

Baseball isn't that well known in the UK, unlike Gridiron, basketball and Ice hockey which have reasonable sized cult followings.

Strangely enough, phrases like "step up to the plate", "ball park figure" and " touch base with" are quite common in British English even though most people don't know where they came from.
 
K6JHU said:
Yes. Format converters have been around for years. NTSC (or the current US digital format) for the US, and PAL (or the current British digital format) for the UK.
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NTSC and PAL are color systems for analog broadcasting. They aren't digital formats, though they did influence the frame rates and standard definition resolutions the digital standards that replaced them wound up using.
 
BMR said:
I don't think this was actually broadcast OTA in the UK, only streamed via Iplayer. I caught a few moments of it, but I think it was only a stream. It definitely wasn't on BBC1 or BBC 2 and I think the only other BBC OTA slot was being used for Glastonbury coverage.

Baseball isn't that well known in the UK, unlike Gridiron, basketball and Ice hockey which have reasonable sized cult followings.
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An English friend tells me both games were on BT Sport, a premium sports network on British cable systems. Regular season games from the U.S. are shown several days per week throughout the season, though most are on in the wee hours of the morning local time.
 
I don't have BT sport, but on checking Saturday's telly guide from the newspaper ...yes it seems they showed the game as well as the BBC iPlayer stream.

Modern smartboxes are so slick even I can't always tell if I'm watching a live stream or an OTA broadcast channel.
 
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