Distorted TNT HD on TWC

[RHash]

I'm new to  TWC, came over after Voom died.

All HD channels look good but TNT is distorted on my plasma. The TWC hardware is set to 720p, 16:9, and changing the resolutions makes no difference.

TNT seems zoomed poorly and not as high def as the other TWC channels.

Anyone have the same problem, or know why only one channel would be distorted out of the current list of TWC HD.

Ralph

[Gregg Lengling]

AHA you noticed right away.....a lot of their material is stretched SD material...that's why it looks like S***!

[RHash]

Interesting.

So I guess we suffer through it.  It is amazing they can get away with the HD claim.

Thanks Gregg.

[Snard]

Interesting.

So I guess we suffer through it.  It is amazing they can get away with the HD claim.

Thanks Gregg.

TNT HD stretches their non-wide material in a non-linear fashion; the center of the screen looks fairly normal, and the left and right sides of the screen show the most "stretchage". However, I have seen a wide screen movie or two there, and they looked much better.

[RHash]

The distortion I see on my 50" Panasonic Plasma is in the center, and top to bottom.
People's heads are the most noticable.

But as you mentioned, I just peaked in last night ( I ususally don't watch TNT much now) and there was an original HD broadcast ballgame on.

The players looked normal, no distortion.

So I guess it is hit and miss on TNT.

It is good to know it is not my hardware.

Thanks

[sp44again]

I watched TNT HD last night and my picture would break up constantly and the audio would drop out. Nice box I have.

[Andrew Grall]

TNT HD stretches their non-wide material in a non-linear fashion; the center of the screen looks fairly normal, and the left and right sides of the screen show the most "stretchage". However, I have seen a wide screen movie or two there, and they looked much better.

Actually, I have found them to be quite random in how they display their programming on this channel.  Sometimes they display native HD material properly.  Sometimes they stretch a 4:3 picture to the 16:9 screen.  Sometimes they cut off the top and bottom of the screen to make it fit 16:9.

Sometimes (and this is the one I hate the most) they take a show that was natively 16:9, but cropped to 4:3 to be played on "regular" TNT, and thencut off the top and the bottom to fit the 16:9 screen.  This way you are seeing the smallest amount of the actual programming possible.  :mad:  I have seen this in Angel reruns...

[Cheesehead Dave]

The distortion I see on my 50" Panasonic Plasma is in the center, and top to bottom.
People's heads are the most noticable.

But as you mentioned, I just peaked in last night ( I ususally don't watch TNT much now) and there was an original HD broadcast ballgame on.

The players looked normal, no distortion.

So I guess it is hit and miss on TNT.

It is good to know it is not my hardware.

Thanks

It's interesting where ESPN will add those stylish silver "HD" sidebars to their non-16:9 content, such as commercials, TNT seems to stretch everything. The basketball games on TNT look great, but when they switch to a commercial, it looks like stretched SD. I wish they'd knock it off, as I prefer to watch all my 4:3 shows in 4:3 mode with bars on the sides and not in panorama mode.

[kevbeck122]

I just turned on TNT-HD and it's in 4:3 w/ sidebars... I wonder if it'll stay like that for everything SD they show.  That would be nice.