The NFL in 4K HDR gets off to a rocky start on Fox Sports

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Things did not go as planned for Fox Sports viewers who were hoping to watch the first Thursday Night Football NFL game in 4K HDR on September 26th. Comcast pulled the 4K HDR feed from its cable lineup at the last minute for unspecified reasons. A carriage dispute meant that Dish Network customers didn’t get the game at all. The Fox Sports Apple TV app crashed on launch unless users immediately navigated to another screen. There were widespread audio problems, leading Reddit users to discover that switching to the secondary audio feed was a huge improvement.

Fox Sports said that the emphasis of its production work wasn’t simply 4K resolution but rather HDR colors and dynamic range... and then it did not deliver an HDR feed to any of the...

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