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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[The biggest crime of syndication is The Office on TBS.  They take a show that was made for real HD, use the letterboxed SD version, stretch it, and call that HD.  I find that be absolutly appaling.<br><br>Also, what's the deal with Discovery Channel HD?  They don't quite stretch, but more of a zoom.  I've been watching Rise of the Video Game and I can't read most of the interviewees profession as it's cut off by the bottom of the screen from zooming.  How can they possibly consider that to be acceptable?  I'd rather see the show in pilar boxed 4:3 than this zoomed BS.  IF anything, that's what TBS should do with the letterboxed Office reruns.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Fuzz 53]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 1:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[Fuzz, I completely agree with you. All SD content should be broadcast in 4:3 pillarboxed on HD channels. The only exception I'd make is for shows that were created in a 4:3 letterboxed format with integrated black bars. Those can be broadcast with a (non-distorting) "zoom" applied so the picture area fills the 16x9 screen. Almost all of my local network affiliates get this right (with the exception of the CW), so why can't cable channels do it properly?<br><br>Sometimes I really wish I were in charge of these things. The only way things will change is if we continue to complain to the programmers at these channels. Keep up the letters and calls, everyone!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr. E]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 1:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[I believe Seinfeld and the original Star Trek series are syndicated in HD. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 2:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[Can't say about Seinfeld, but we're slowing getting the Star Treks out in HD for syndication.  Frasier too, as well as a couple of others that are escaping my memory right now...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Pepto Pimp]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 2:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yes TBS "HD" is terrible.  TNT HD does the same except the stretch the edges to fit.  The center is not stretched so it gives you a headache to watch.  <br><br>One of my biggest complaints about syndicated shows is the college football and basketball broadcaster for the SEC and ACC, Lincoln Financial Sports.  They film games in SD because it's syndicated - they have no immediate plans to change, which totally sucks.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 2:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[The only content that is stretched that hasn't bothered me has been cartoons, i.e. cartoon network and Family Guy on TBS.  They don't look anywhere near as bad as their live action stretched counter-parts.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Fuzz 53]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 3:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[&#9834;&#9835; men men men men manly men, do dit do do, do dit do &#9835;&#9834;<br><br>Sorry.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 4:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[I want one of those industrial strength DVRs that can record 5 shows at the same time, and have a server with storage of about a 100 terabytes.  Now were taking.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[horngreen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 5:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on The challenges of syndicated HD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/12/11/the-challenges-of-syndicated-hd/</guid><description><![CDATA[What I find strange is that little Waco, TX can afford the equipment to replay 2 1/2 Men in HD, but a city like Austin, TX (suppose to be high-tech) can't.  This even after the station that shows the program in syndicate switched their studios to HD and are suppose to have HD playback of news segments.<br><br>For a city of less than 1 million people, Waco is way ahead in the HD field.  I applaud them and I'm glad I can pick up both Austin and Waco signals ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[T-bone]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 11th 2007 7:02PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>