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The ESPN trucks are contracted and sometimes the cost of getting a HD truck to middle-of-nowhere-ville is just too great compared to a closer SD truck. Scheduling conflicts also occur.Keith
yeah, must be tough to find an HD truck in Philadelphia.
Man, half full guys. I am happy I can watch it on TV and not a choppy computer.
Seems like ESPN needs to replace a lot of those SD trucks with HD ones. The B10 network has nearly everything is HD, is this because the network is so new that they just bought all HD stuff right away and didn't have to phase out the SD equipment like ESPN is currently doing?
ESPN doesn't buy trucks and neither does Big Ten Network. They all contract with the same pool of truck vendors. The only exception to that that I know of is NBA on TNT ... Turner owns their own trucks as I recall.http://guardian.nepinc.com/packages/index.phphttp://www.ncpvideo.com/http://www.triovideo.com/http://www.lyonvideo.com/I could go on, but the list is quite long ... ESPN doesn't use all of these various vendors, most networks actually use NEP and NCP. FSN and other smaller networks use more of the Trio, Lyon, etc. trucks.It is all a matter of price, scheduling, and truck location/routes.Keith
Thanks for clarifying. Is it just a matter of price then for ESPN?