No, the quality is fine and GCL works great for me as a Finn but as the other guy said, I don't like watching sports on delay. And I always seem to fail my media blackout and see the score somewhere.
Yea I remember when I had Center Ice and would DVR games, it took full commitment and vigilance to avoid seeing the score. Even knowing if it was a close game or blowout ruined it.
I eventually trained myself to just go into complete sensory shutdown mode when I knew something hockey related could be displayed. Whether it was ESPN or VS on in a bar or restaurant, the crawl on the screen giving away scores, everything.
The worst was if I was DVR'ing two things at the same time, or left the game on the channel and forgot when I turned on the tv late in the game and saw some type of celebration or the score. Especially when a roommate would have dvr'd something at the same time so it switched to the game without me knowing because it had to be on one of the channels when recording two events.
Playoff games in this situation are excruciating because they could go three OT's, and if you turn on the tv to see they're still playing an hour or two after regulation time should have ended, it ruins the suspense of the first three periods and the last few minutes of the 3rd.
You have to really train your eyes not to move up to the corner of the screen where the score is, and when you become an expert you don't even have to think about it. Your eyes just defocus whenever you see a bunch of white ice on the screen, and you go into auto pilot mode.