Posted by JackShephard on 06/02/07 00:03

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:31:54 -0400, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

> If I see a letterboxed PBS documentary with that fancy "This
>show is filmed in Hi-Def" intro, or I see Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien on a
>big cavernous widescreen studio on NBC--both over normal
>basic-cable--*and* I have a tuner-ready set kicked in, may I assume I'd
>be watching those as nature intended?
>(And that's assuming the cable connection is direct, and not through my
>old component-VCR.)


No. Cable cos fuck with their feeds ALL the time. So you'll never
know if they did or did not on any given program unless you call and ask
someone that actually knows, not the twit answering the phone.

Broadcast (over the air) PBS is always full resolution, least lossy
feed. From my area, all over the air feeds were the least lossy, and all
the cable co's "HD" feeds were typically fucked with.

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