Posted by Barry Watzman on 01/15/07 10:48

So are most of ours ... most, but not all. The news shows have an
obvious problem, because whatever the feed from the studio (which I will
call 4:3 HD), so much of the insert news footage of the events being
reported is neither HD nor widescreen, and it's pretty obvious how badly
the resolution and image quality drops when they cut from the studio
shots to some (not all) of the actual event coverage footage.

But almost all actual network prime time shows are being broadcast in
widescreen HD. The real issue is that there are a bunch of "cable
networks" that are not yet currently available to us in HD or even
digital format at all (this may be a function of our cable system rather
than of the shows). This includes MSNBC, CNBC, A&E, Discovery Channel,
History Channel, Lifetime, etc.

M.I.5¾ wrote:
> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:45ab0658$0$27045$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> Lots of HD (and it is HD in terms of resolution and image quality, plus
>> the "HD" light on my cable box is on) is still 4:3. For example, the HD
>> feed of the NBC nightly news (Brian Williams) is HD but it's not
>> widescreen; I believe that this is true also for CBS and ABC. Of course
>> you can have either the cable box or the set "stretch" a 4:3 broadcast to
>> fill the screen but this introduces visible distortion. I'd rather just
>> leave it narrow with sidebars, but also with HD's high resolution.
>>
>
> Do you mean that the UK is ahead of the yanks for a change. Our HD
> broadcasts are in 16:9.
>
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