TNT HD Looking GOOD

[Joseph S]

Chicken and egg...somethings got to come first.....

Stretching doesn't come anywhere in my book. It's not HD, it is SD. Show it upconverted in its OAR along with what HD content they have.

[gparris]

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BTW, SportsCenter goes HD two weeks from today.

ESPN-HD, right? Great.

Now TWC can get going by adding this channel as it seems as
though it will be enough HD to satisfy TWC, finally.

Dish, Directv, even Voom have it, including many cable companies, ones bigger and smaller than you, TWC!:D

[borghe]

actually it is very hard to criticize ESPN-HD in my opinion.. not like that will stop people though... :rolleyes:

ESPN-HD shows more HD sports in a year than has been shown in HD since, well, since HD began.. They are showing sometimes as many as 5 or more games a week in HD... While they still have a lot of stretched SD (which I think might be the only real complaint people have), at the same time they show more HD sports than possibly all other networks combined..

and the future will only bring more.

[borghe]

hehe.. back on topic, apparently TNTHD is not without its flaws.. there is quite a bit of evidence on AVSForums showing that the shows are not only not in HD, but SD upconverts and stretched to 16:9 to boot (Law & Order, X-Files, and Charmed have all been spotted so far).

To make matters worse, TNT-HD is still showing the High Definition banner on these shows and is still passing the HDTV flag in their guide data. So the only way you can tell if a show is truly HD or not is to either know what the show originally posted in (TNT has apparently done no remastering like HDNet has) or take a REAL good look at what you're watching.

Looks like I won't be too jealous for now.

[summerfun]

I have been watching a lot of TND HD since it came out. They just have the kind of programming I like to watch. They have a real mixture of old SD stretched stuff and new HD stuff. Since they stretch the SD, it makes it real hard to know the difference except for PQ. Most networks go to the 4:3 format for the SD material so it is easy to tell.

For example, old ER before HD is still SD stretched. New ER episodes in HD will be shown in HD. Same for Law and Order and so forth. New stuff, like live basketball is HD. I have seen some of the movies as stretched SD and some have looked like HD.

Now if we can get UPN and WB to move to HD, I would have all the networks I need.

[Skipjack]

I've yet to catch anything not stretched on TNT HD.

I turned on "Line of Fire" the other day and it had this "non-uniform" stretch mode.  It was an obvious attempt to make the stretching not so apparent.

It looked terrible.. any character whose head was towards the edge of the screen (which is very common since it's originally a 4:3 pan & scan presentation), had a head shaped like the creature from Alien.

I'd say, if you can't find anything good to show, don't show anything at all.

[mhz40]

All I have seen in HD so far was a basketball game...
I really wish the would transmit 4x3 unstretched... for those who want/need it for certain reasons could do it on their own.

[borghe]

AVSForum is saying the exact same thing.. The only thing that has been HD so far are literally a handful of shows (and not even consistently) and basketball...

So far their is more on ESPN-HD, which really isn't saying a lot for either channel.