Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC |  Who cares anyway?
As I discovered, most of the "HD" channels don't broadcast 50% of their content in HD and it's a crap shoot as to whether a channel just stretches the SD picture and calls it HD. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by Matt  :As I discovered, most of the "HD" channels don't broadcast 50% of their content in HD and it's a crap shoot as to whether a channel just stretches the SD picture and calls it HD. Well most content espcially old content is SD. Mos t fo these channels are filming new content in HD. I noticed on my SDTVs I have black bars on the top and bottom on many shows which means they are widescreen. |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | reply to Matt
More content is being put into HD every day. In fact we just did a major HD upgrade and our entire primetime lineup is now in HD.  |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
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join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | reply to BF69
Actually any "Filmed" content can be rescanned at 1080p. Only downside is that clearing up the dust is expensive. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
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said by Eat Me :More content is being put into HD every day. In fact we just did a major HD upgrade and our entire primetime lineup is now in HD. Unless you reveal "your" network which you say "the site is one of the most visited on the web" of.. your bragging rights mean nothing. |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | Nope, don't like stalkers. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20 | Then pipe down about it.  Otherwise, I'm going to be the Prime Minister of England. |
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whizkid3
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join:2002-02-21
Queens, NY
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said by Matt :As I discovered, most of the "HD" channels don't broadcast 50% of their content in HD and it's a crap shoot as to whether a channel just stretches the SD picture and calls it HD. A wide picture and HD have little to do with each other, as I think you know. This is confusing to many. HD is simply a higher resolution picture, square or not. Most television (unfortunately) is video'd in a square format. God forbid (IMHO) that stations start stretching their video formats to make it wider. If you have a widescreen TV, you have the ability to do it on your own. It works good for some broadcasts (football and other sports), but for anything showing peoples faces, it is very distorting.
With the prevelance of widescreen, HD televisions in the home; I see a switch to cameras that will video in HD, and possibly 16x9, which is when the quantity (and quality) of available HD broadcasts will accelerate. |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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said by fiberguy :Then pipe down about it. Otherwise, I'm going to be the Prime Minister of England. Go enjoy hulu , set up an account and tell it you want the high speed hd feeds as default
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rawgerz
In Debt we trust
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join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA
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You said it brother.
The only channels I found that do HD justice are Discovery, TLC, Natgeo, and history channel. I figured if the channel was in HD, ALL the content was in HD.
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You can't make all the people happy all of the time. But it should be common sense to shoot for the majority. |
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Ytsejamer1
join:2008-01-18
Somersworth, NH
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not necessarily...some shows may be presented in LetterBox which would give you the bars on top and bottom. Granted, there aren't that many shows presented in LB format.
The only one that comes to mind was HDNet's presentation of Star Trek: Enterprise. I know for a fact they shot that show in HD, but for whatever reason, HDNet decided to show the LB version. So I had bars on the side AND on top and bottom. I don't like stretching SD content. |
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