Now if some of these channels would actually start broadcasting HD content. Has SciFi HD actually broadcast anything in HD? And how about when they have a letterboxed movie on, has anyone else noticed instead of making it full screen on an HDTV channel they put black bars on Top and the sides? I mean, I am not that picky I would settle for an up converted wide screen presentation of standard def stuff. It is better to watch it stretched on the standard def channel. We should not be paying for that crap.
Only a fool watches SD stretched and thinks it an improvement (and only idiot jerks of broadcasters present it that way: I mean you TBS, TNT & A&E).
As for windowboxing, try the zoom button. Window boxing is an artifact of SD. When you make a 16:9 SD program, then send it to 4:3 sets, you letterbox. When you take that 4:3 material and present it to 16:9 sets as "HD" (joke), you pillar-box it. The result is window-boxing.
Most sets can remove windoboxing with the zoom button. If you are in the market for a new HDTV, make damn sure it can stretch, zoom and squeeze 1080 inputs. Apparently some schlock still can't.
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Now if some of these channels would actually start broadcasting HD content. Has SciFi HD actually broadcast anything in HD? And how about when they have a letterboxed movie on, has anyone else noticed instead of making it full screen on an HDTV channel they put black bars on Top and the sides? I mean, I am not that picky I would settle for an up converted wide screen presentation of standard def stuff. It is better to watch it stretched on the standard def channel. We should not be paying for that crap.
Stargate Atlantis, Flash Gordon, Bionic Woman, and several of their cheesy made-for-tv movies (which can be pretty fun).
Pillar boxing of letterboxed isn't a problem-- just use the zoom on your tv.
Only a fool watches SD stretched and thinks it an improvement (and only idiot jerks of broadcasters present it that way: I mean you TBS, TNT & A&E).
As for windowboxing, try the zoom button. Window boxing is an artifact of SD. When you make a 16:9 SD program, then send it to 4:3 sets, you letterbox. When you take that 4:3 material and present it to 16:9 sets as "HD" (joke), you pillar-box it. The result is window-boxing.
Most sets can remove windoboxing with the zoom button. If you are in the market for a new HDTV, make damn sure it can stretch, zoom and squeeze 1080 inputs. Apparently some schlock still can't.