Posted by Bill Steele on 12/09/05 20:06

In article <1134152881.368725.313180@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
"Logical Anomaly's Ego" <TomServosAgent@aol.com> wrote:

> I've noticed a lot of times the Best Buys and Circuit Cities have HD
> hookedup, supposedly, and it looks like a regular signal. I've seen
> true HDTV so I know the difference, but there are LOTS of time they say
> you are looking at an HDTV picture and it doesn't look like the pure
> HDTV I've seen. That may be because they have the signal split too
> many times? Or just clueless?

Probably the latter. When I was shopping for an HD set Sears had about
ten of them up and running. Looked good but not great. The salesperson
told me they were upconverting regular programming because their dish
was down. Went back later and they had a real HD signal.

From there on, true HD is still only a small fraction of what's on the
cable--I think about ten channels out of 300 or so. My set upconverts,
and does such a good job that occasionally I'm fooled, if I forget that
I'm watching Starz and not HBO. It does a good job on channels that are
already digital, but on analog channels it just amplifies the
crappiness.

I'm all for people buying more HD sets, whether they know what they're
getting or not, because it will push penny-pinching Time-Warner to add
more channels.

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