ION can launch HD whenever it wants. It doesn't have to wait for mandatory DTV.
Meanwhile, "any money-making enterprise" somehow implicitly "wants" to make their own HD content because DTV exists is also complete nonsense.
From what I've seen of ION, it essentially does nothing more than rerun old TV shows and movies. ION doesn't really have any content of its own, and the introduction of HD isn't going to change that. From a technical standpoint, ION probably shouldn't go HD immediately, not unless they have access to the original film copies of the content they show and are willing to invest the time and money into reframing them for 16:9 and then digitally remastering them at a higher resolution.
Now, before anyone goes "But hold on, this was stuff for TV", most of it is on film, and this process is already being done - for example Everyone Loves Raymond has had exactly this process applied to it and is being broadcast by... er, TBS I think. (Higher definition doesn't make it any funnier though, alas.) And a lot of TV was filmed for 16:9 even if it was broadcast as 4:3, which is why if you buy DVDs of popular series' like The Pretender, it's all 16:9.
But... but it's EXPENSIVE. Very expensive. And it may well be premature to do this now, especially when there are benefits in NOT going HD. If all you're broadcasting is reruns, there's a strong argument for staying SD, and using the transition to add a bunch of extra SD channels.
So the notion that "any money-making enterprise" - even assuming we're referring to "profitable TV networks" rather than "/any/" - has the production of HD content as being in its best interest is clearly false. An enterprise that makes its money from rebroadcasting old SD content has little to gain and a lot to lose by going HD.
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I don't follow any of this logic, EHD's or ION's.
ION can launch HD whenever it wants. It doesn't have to wait for mandatory DTV.
Meanwhile, "any money-making enterprise" somehow implicitly "wants" to make their own HD content because DTV exists is also complete nonsense.
From what I've seen of ION, it essentially does nothing more than rerun old TV shows and movies. ION doesn't really have any content of its own, and the introduction of HD isn't going to change that. From a technical standpoint, ION probably shouldn't go HD immediately, not unless they have access to the original film copies of the content they show and are willing to invest the time and money into reframing them for 16:9 and then digitally remastering them at a higher resolution.
Now, before anyone goes "But hold on, this was stuff for TV", most of it is on film, and this process is already being done - for example Everyone Loves Raymond has had exactly this process applied to it and is being broadcast by... er, TBS I think. (Higher definition doesn't make it any funnier though, alas.) And a lot of TV was filmed for 16:9 even if it was broadcast as 4:3, which is why if you buy DVDs of popular series' like The Pretender, it's all 16:9.
But... but it's EXPENSIVE. Very expensive. And it may well be premature to do this now, especially when there are benefits in NOT going HD. If all you're broadcasting is reruns, there's a strong argument for staying SD, and using the transition to add a bunch of extra SD channels.
So the notion that "any money-making enterprise" - even assuming we're referring to "profitable TV networks" rather than "/any/" - has the production of HD content as being in its best interest is clearly false. An enterprise that makes its money from rebroadcasting old SD content has little to gain and a lot to lose by going HD.