Posted by Jeff Rife on 06/25/06 23:20

Joshua Zyber (joshzyber@comcast.net) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > many, many, manymanymany, many, MANY, did I mention "many", standard
> > definition TVs in homes for years after the February 2009 (subject to
> > yet another delay) date for all TV signals to switch to HDTV and all
> > TVs be able to accept a HDTV signal, even if only through a HDTV
> > converter of some sort.)
>
> There has NEVER been a mandate for all TV broadcast to switch to HD. The
> mandate is that broadcasting must switch to "digital", which can and
> will primarily be Standard Definition.

Although the first part of your statement is true, the rest is in serious
doubt. Primetime TV is essentially 100% HD already, at least for any
scripted show. In addition, PBS stations are the only ones that tend to
change resolution to fit the show...most others leave it broadcasting an
HD signal. Although the source may not be HD, by doing the conversion
at the station, you get every single bit of resolution that was there in
the source, which isn't true even with digital SD (anti-aliasing can
be applied to the scaled signal to improve the look of the SD source).

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