Posted by GMAN on 06/24/06 03:31

In article <cfbp92dqfdir2v8m802aesao5b2lomptsq@4ax.com>, Roy L. Fuchs <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:17:01 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>
>>On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:06:27 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:54:22 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:26:49 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
>>>>> The HD content piped by a cable service is not true HD content.
>>>>> They screw with it (compress).
>>>>
>>>>HD DVD discs "screw with it (compress)" too.
>>>
>>> You retarded fuck. The topic of that remark was about Off air HD
>>> content being modified before being piped out by cable providers.
>>
>>In that case, you should've used to word "recompress," instead of compress.
>
> Bullshit. The proper term for fucking up good content is
>"reprocessed".
>
>>However, you also used the term "true HD" to describe a compressed version
>>of HD, namely OTA. I feel that's in error as well.
>
> You're a goddamned idiot. Broadcast HDTV IS the ORIGINAL
>implementation, dumbass.
>

Actually many local affiliates downconvert the signal,

> When General Instrument made the encoder racks, that WAS and STILL IS
>the exact array size, and content processing that was the original
>design.
>
> I don't care what you "feel".
>
> Of course, there are "HD" channels that carry content that was
>created or originally piped via 4:3 NTSC modes, and usually it looks
>like shit in HD.
>
> CSI, however looks EXACTLY as good via HDTV broadcast as the up
>converted HD scanned DVD versions do off the HD DVD player.
>
> Tight.

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