Is HD TV Bogus?
 

I just had my first experience with supposed HD TV. I hooked my parents
up with Time Warner HD DVR. The HD channels are then in the 500-599
range. Well, most on the supposed HD channels I tuned to were NOT
broadcasting in HDTV. What's the deal with this? IS HDTV B.S.?

Dan

Is HD TV Bogus?
 

Is HD TV Bogus?
 

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:37:14 GMT, skip wrote:

wrote in :

I just had my first experience with supposed HD TV. I hooked my parents
up with Time Warner HD DVR. The HD channels are then in the 500-599
range. Well, most on the supposed HD channels I tuned to were NOT
broadcasting in HDTV. What's the deal with this? IS HDTV B.S.?

Dan

absolutly HD is none existant. Just a way to make more money. Keep your SD
set and enjoy itr

LMAO!

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Is HD TV Bogus?
 

In article ,
wrote:

I just had my first experience with supposed HD TV. I hooked my parents
up with Time Warner HD DVR. The HD channels are then in the 500-599
range. Well, most on the supposed HD channels I tuned to were NOT
broadcasting in HDTV. What's the deal with this? IS HDTV B.S.?

No, it's Time Weiner that's bogus. Because they know that most people
can't tell the difference. And when you do get HD, it's more compressed
than what you can get with an antenna on the roof. I'll keep my antenna
and keep putting the 40+ bucks a month toward my DSL, since I care
neither about sports nor about watching movies on somebody else's
schedule.

Is HD TV Bogus?
 

Is HD TV Bogus?
 

Bruce Tomlin wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

I just had my first experience with supposed HD TV. I hooked my parents
up with Time Warner HD DVR. The HD channels are then in the 500-599
range. Well, most on the supposed HD channels I tuned to were NOT
broadcasting in HDTV. What's the deal with this? IS HDTV B.S.?

No, it's Time Weiner that's bogus. Because they know that most people
can't tell the difference. And when you do get HD, it's more compressed
than what you can get with an antenna on the roof. I'll keep my antenna
and keep putting the 40+ bucks a month toward my DSL, since I care
neither about sports nor about watching movies on somebody else's
schedule.

you have to pay extra,but don't belive this crap.HD is great!!!
you must have the right set up Are you hooked up right??
Sure we could all use less compression and more channels ,but once
you see a Baseball Game or Football game and compare the picture
with the SD you will see what your missing
YOU NEED A GOOD SET FIRST,there are plenty HD sets that suck

Is HD TV Bogus?
 

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Bruce Tomlin wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

I just had my first experience with supposed HD TV. I hooked my
parents
up with Time Warner HD DVR. The HD channels are then in the 500-599
range. Well, most on the supposed HD channels I tuned to were NOT
broadcasting in HDTV. What's the deal with this? IS HDTV B.S.?

No, it's Time Weiner that's bogus. Because they know that most people
can't tell the difference. And when you do get HD, it's more compressed
than what you can get with an antenna on the roof. I'll keep my antenna
and keep putting the 40+ bucks a month toward my DSL, since I care
neither about sports nor about watching movies on somebody else's
schedule.

you have to pay extra,but don't belive this crap.HD is great!!!
you must have the right set up Are you hooked up right??
Sure we could all use less compression and more channels ,but once
you see a Baseball Game or Football game and compare the picture
with the SD you will see what your missing
YOU NEED A GOOD SET FIRST,there are plenty HD sets that suck

Is HD TV Bogus?
 

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:52:34 -0700, wrote:


Bruce Tomlin wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

I just had my first experience with supposed HD TV. I hooked my parents
up with Time Warner HD DVR. The HD channels are then in the 500-599
range. Well, most on the supposed HD channels I tuned to were NOT
broadcasting in HDTV. What's the deal with this? IS HDTV B.S.?

No, it's Time Weiner that's bogus. Because they know that most people
can't tell the difference. And when you do get HD, it's more compressed
than what you can get with an antenna on the roof. I'll keep my antenna
and keep putting the 40+ bucks a month toward my DSL, since I care
neither about sports nor about watching movies on somebody else's
schedule.

you have to pay extra,but don't belive this crap.HD is great!!!
you must have the right set up Are you hooked up right??
Sure we could all use less compression and more channels ,but once
you see a Baseball Game or Football game and compare the picture
with the SD you will see what your missing

There's nothing crap about what he said. Every single word of it is true.
He didn't say HD wasn't any good. His comments were that TW HD is
compressed and not as good as OTA, and that's totally correct form what
I've read from people that have compared the HD picture. I think anyone
will agree that even the compressed HD is better than SD.

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Is HD TV Bogus?
 

On 8/14/2006 1:52 PM, wrote:
Bruce Tomlin wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

I just had my first experience with supposed HD TV. I hooked my parents
up with Time Warner HD DVR. The HD channels are then in the 500-599
range. Well, most on the supposed HD channels I tuned to were NOT
broadcasting in HDTV. What's the deal with this? IS HDTV B.S.?
No, it's Time Weiner that's bogus. Because they know that most people
can't tell the difference. And when you do get HD, it's more compressed
than what you can get with an antenna on the roof. I'll keep my antenna
and keep putting the 40+ bucks a month toward my DSL, since I care
neither about sports nor about watching movies on somebody else's
schedule.

you have to pay extra,but don't belive this crap.HD is great!!!
you must have the right set up Are you hooked up right??
Sure we could all use less compression and more channels ,but once
you see a Baseball Game or Football game and compare the picture
with the SD you will see what your missing
YOU NEED A GOOD SET FIRST,there are plenty HD sets that suck


I have a Samsung LN-S4052D 40" LCD. The programs that are in HD TV have
a box in the description that says [hdtv]. My point is that a lot of the
HD channels were not broadcasting in [hdtv] signal. Maybe this was
because it was Sunday afternoon, but I expected all the HD channels to
be displaying HD content all the time.

Is HD TV Bogus?
 

On 8/14/2006 11:38 AM, Dave Oldridge wrote:
wrote in :

I just had my first experience with supposed HD TV. I hooked my
parents
up with Time Warner HD DVR. The HD channels are then in the 500-599
range. Well, most on the supposed HD channels I tuned to were NOT
broadcasting in HDTV. What's the deal with this? IS HDTV B.S.?

HD is real enough, but are you sure your parents' TV is HD ready and have
you hooked it to a component output or HDMI output that is actually
delivering an HD picture to the set? My sat box will deliver a perfectly
nice SD signal from any HD channel on its S-Video output. But it's SD,
not HD.

And yes, a lot of HD channels broadcast a great deal of pillar-boxed SDTV
because there just isn't enough HD material to fill all the time slots.
PBS is usually pretty well all HD, though and the big four commercial
networks tend to be HD during prime time. Also many sporting events are
HD (but not all--my MLB team's home games are broadcast in HD, but the
away games are usually SD). When a station's feed is SD, they will
usually put the programming into a pillar-boxed picture on their HD
channel. You may still get better-than-SD resolution, especially if they
are getting EDTV resolution from their satellite source but you won't get
HDTV if it's not there from camera or source to you.

Ain't it fun being an early adopter?




Early adopter? Hasn't this HD TV stuff been around for at least 3 years?