 whizkid3Premium,MVM
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Queens, NY
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1 edit | reply to Matt
Re: Who cares anyway? 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. |
