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b10010011
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"The overwhelming number of our customers want more HD programming, so to stay in the game when all our competitors are adding more HD programmning, we've got to do that."

The majority of these "HD" channels they are adding are not really HD! Take the Science Channel HD, they show the same exact program the SD SCI shows but stretched to 16:9 aspect ratio and 720P picture.

I am sorry that is NOT HD.

That is just a complete waste of bandwidth. They need to stop this rush to have more, more, more until there is actual HD programming available.

But Joe Six-pack is so used to having everything stretched on his new wide screen HDTV that he thinks every thing should be that way.

Personally I did not spend all this money on an HDTV to watch an intentionally distorted picture.

to forum · permalink · 2008-07-05 18:03:25 ·

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30-50% of the content on the 'secondary' HD channels are still HD. Would rather have that much more than no new HD channels. And the infrastructure is now in place for more HD content. It will take many many years for 100% of content to be HD. And old content never will be unless fully remastered. Bitchin about this is kind of a half-glass empty view.

But it does suck when they stretch/zoom 4:3 content. Very annoying. They should let the viewer decide as most HDTVs/cable boxes allow to do it manually.

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This is NOT HD!

said by fsdafdasfdasf :

old content never will be unless fully remastered. Bitchin about this is kind of a half-glass empty view.

Sure but case in point. I remember when the Mars rovers were first landed and the videos were being shown on INHD. They were incredible looking. Now the HD Science Channel is showing that same video, BUT they are showing the cropped 4:3 SD version stretched to fit widescreen format.

ABC Family-HD was showing Harry Potter movies all weekend. But they were the cropped 4:3 formatted version. I find it hard to believe they did not have the wide screen edition.

At least they did not stretch it.

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