ION is one of those conservative channels that doesn't show anything other than so-called "family friendly" programming, 90% of which seems to be reruns of 1980s junk. The fact they haven't gone HD yet isn't particularly surprising as I suspect a high proportion of their content is either on 480i videotape, or on film that will need reframing if they don't want to broadcast in stretchovision.
Considering their programming budget is probably significantly less than $10,000 a day, I would imagine they're going to have to work on their sources of programming if they want to actually do a true HD switch. Don't expect ION to be significantly better.
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ION is one of those conservative channels that doesn't show anything other than so-called "family friendly" programming, 90% of which seems to be reruns of 1980s junk. The fact they haven't gone HD yet isn't particularly surprising as I suspect a high proportion of their content is either on 480i videotape, or on film that will need reframing if they don't want to broadcast in stretchovision.
Considering their programming budget is probably significantly less than $10,000 a day, I would imagine they're going to have to work on their sources of programming if they want to actually do a true HD switch. Don't expect ION to be significantly better.