Posted by Bill's News on 08/03/06 16:47

Joshua Zyber wrote:
> "Bill's News" <BillsNews@pcmagic.net> wrote in message
> news:44d14517_3@newsfeed.slurp.net...
>> The next time one of the HD movie channels presents a film
>> which I
>> have on DVD I'll compare them. I've always had the feeling
>> that
>> cable channel HD movies are just DVD quality scaled up.
>
> Sorry, not true.

Of course it's true, I have had the feeling!

If you mean instead that the HD movie channels are using HD
mastered copies of the films and then down-scaling to MPEG2 at
16 or so mbps, then I'm happy to know that, if you can provide
some authority to back up your statement.

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