We've had all of those in Tallahassee since mid-December (to the best of my knowledge.)
Discovery channel is a let down, most of the content looks like it's upscaled but they didn't do a hot job, and the true HD stuff looks to be compressed down so far that you can hardly tell the difference. We don't have TLC or Science Channel HD right now so I can't tell if this is all of the Discovery networks that do this or not. Some of the History channel stuff is in the same boat.
However, Food HD is impressive. Whomever they have running their plant knows their stuff, and the production values are extremely high on all of the shows we watch at our place. Since they have a different schedule than regular Food chan (unlike Discovery, et al.) *all* of the content shown was originally filmed in HD. Good Eats (with the excellent Alton Brown), in particular, looks like they have been filming in HD for a number of years now and so there's an extensive catalog that they have to pick from.
“Getting too close completely blurred what we saw to the point of incomprehension, but again, this shows a whole heap of potential that's fascinating to us.”
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We've had all of those in Tallahassee since mid-December (to the best of my knowledge.)
Discovery channel is a let down, most of the content looks like it's upscaled but they didn't do a hot job, and the true HD stuff looks to be compressed down so far that you can hardly tell the difference. We don't have TLC or Science Channel HD right now so I can't tell if this is all of the Discovery networks that do this or not. Some of the History channel stuff is in the same boat.
However, Food HD is impressive. Whomever they have running their plant knows their stuff, and the production values are extremely high on all of the shows we watch at our place. Since they have a different schedule than regular Food chan (unlike Discovery, et al.) *all* of the content shown was originally filmed in HD. Good Eats (with the excellent Alton Brown), in particular, looks like they have been filming in HD for a number of years now and so there's an extensive catalog that they have to pick from.