Now in HD

[TheUnk]

ok I don't know why but I'm finding it really irritating that shows (news especially) are STILL plastering my TV with "HD". As I now watch Fox News I see "HD" in 3 different spots. Please drop it and put the persistant clock or temp back!

The dumbest thing of all is that the "Now in HD" text is on the edge of the screen, which you can only see if you have a wide ...HD... display!! Retarded!

 

[zinfamous]

The dumbest thing of all is that the "Now in HD" text is on the edge of the screen, which you can only see if you have a wide ...HD... display!! Retarded!

yes, but you'd be surprised at how many people actually have HD sets, but are never watching HD content--and they don't realize it.

 

[KeithTalent]

yes, but you'd be surprised at how many people actually have HD sets, but are never watching HD content--and they don't realize it.

Yes! I was at my Godmother's place a few weeks back and they have a large HD set. We were watching a hockey game on channel 22 (SD) and I asked for the remote, turned it to 135 (same channel in HD) and they actually exclaimed "holy shit"! They actually had the freaking channels and were not watching them. I ended up writing down a cheat sheet for them so they could mazimize their viewing enjoyment.

KT

 

[zinfamous]

Yes! I was at my Godmother's place a few weeks back and they have a large HD set. We were watching a hockey game on channel 22 (SD) and I asked for the remote, turned it to 135 (same channel in HD) and they actually exclaimed "holy shit"! They actually had the freaking channels and were not watching them. I ended up writing down a cheat sheet for them so they could mazimize their viewing enjoyment.

KT

hehe, yep! this is what happens. People don't seem to realize that SD and HD content is an entirely different bracket of channels, and that you generally have to pay extra to get HD.

Even if you pay, many people:

1. Never use the channels
2. Don't use HDMI to hook up the receiver. (many installers won't provide these though--sucks)

They'd be better off getting a piddly antennae and hooking it up for free HD OTA....which is better quality.

 

[Pheran]

hehe, yep! this is what happens. People don't seem to realize that SD and HD content is an entirely different bracket of channels, and that you generally have to pay extra to get HD.

Even if you pay, many people:

1. Never use the channels
2. Don't use HDMI to hook up the receiver. (many installers won't provide these though--sucks)

Yup. I just had to go over to my neighbors a few weeks ago and remove the stupid coax cable that was connecting their cable box to their HDTV and replace it with an HDMI cable. They were pretty darn happy about the picture improvement once they actually started getting the HD they were already paying for.

 

[ElFenix]

burn notice looked rather awful last night in HD. not sure if its always that was as i usually catch it on hulu, or if directv was compressing the heck out of it.