Shocker... The Wiz didn't even take one commercial break to screw up Alias

[Joseph S]

What a joke. Flip to SD while the opening credits run. This market is going to hell.

[klwillis45]

:confused:  Did you have SD for the rest of the show??? I dvr'd it and the only part that was in SD for me was the opening credits. I know The Unit's opening credits are always in SD but I don't remeber if Alias' are. Regardless, it's only the credits so I don't even care so long as the actual show is HD.

[Joseph S]

It goes fade to black -> HD -> SD -> HD all during opening credits. The rest is HD with a couple of late swtiches including the last one from one of the weather idiots.

I know The Unit's opening credits are always in SD

This is ridiculous. They've even got their nice blue bar running through the logo. I know it's national, but it's really absurd that CBS is doing this when the show is shot/run in HD.

[LoadStar]

Can someone explain why stations have to "flip" at all? Why can't they route the 4:3 content through a system to pillarbox and upconvert? One would think this would be infinitely easier... and probably make most customers much happier.

[Joseph S]

Congrats. They f'd it up again. Late on the switch on the umpteenth time.

It's supposed to say "Previously on Alias" not "Next time on Access Hollywood."

Looks like at least 3 other breaks were f'd up too!

[Joseph S]

They screwed up every single local commercial break for the entire episode. Total incompetence. Word to Dean Maytag, Frank Biancuzzo, and the other cronies:

Next time that worthless Hill is on the air smirking for 5 seconds...

You ought to know it's time to FLIP THE DAMN SWITCH!!!!!!!!

[oz]

Can someone explain why stations have to "flip" at all? Why can't they route the 4:3 content through a system to pillarbox and upconvert? One would think this would be infinitely easier... and probably make most customers much happier.

I agree.  Why don't they run things like ESPN-HD and TBS-HD. At worse, the commercial might be stretched.