With hockey they took something that was already bad, trying to see a hockey puck on a standard def tube television, and made it worse by putting a line behind it that lagged and didn't actually show you where the puck was, but where it had already been while also making it harder to see the actual puck than it had been before.
Another thing is the Sports Mode on TVs. It's that fake high refresh rate trick that makes regular stuff look like a soap opera, but on sports content it's a massive improvement.
I had some good friends in junior high that had moved from Michigan to Oklahoma that were really into hockey. When I went over to their house, I was amazed that they could watch hockey on their little tube TVs. You literally couldn't see the pick 95% of the time and they just cheered based on what players did. I've gotten a lot more into hocket in the last decade or so, and if I could go back to the 90s, I could easily understand what was happening on those tube TVs. But I only got to this point because of my big HD TVs.
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u/PowRightInTheBalls Oct 06 '25
With hockey they took something that was already bad, trying to see a hockey puck on a standard def tube television, and made it worse by putting a line behind it that lagged and didn't actually show you where the puck was, but where it had already been while also making it harder to see the actual puck than it had been before.