What is the point of TBS HD?
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From: Ontario, Canada
Being in Canada I didn't know TBS had an HD channel but (sort of related) I don't get why there's CNN HD. I don't even watch regular CNN because of that damn ticker which isn't the best thing for a Plasma. During these election primaries, CNN HD looks like a complex video game screen, so they do take advantage of the wider frame but of course it's all still there faintly when you change the channel!
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Originally Posted by FantasticVSDoom
To mock us...
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Aside from maybe a few things, A&E-HD is the same way.
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Originally Posted by rw2516
Is there any point in transmitting SD content over an HD signal? TV Land for example.
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Originally Posted by rfduncan
So Joe Sixpack doesn't call bitching that his HD channels (for which he is paying extra) aren't filling his new HDTV, of course. 

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Originally Posted by bunkaroo
I think TNT HD also does this stretch crap. What a bunch of idiots running those channels.
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Originally Posted by Vipper II
TNT has gotten MUCH better about not doing that. They only stretch about 15-20% of the time now.
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From: Philadelphia
Originally Posted by Nick Martin
Being in Canada I didn't know TBS had an HD channel but (sort of related) I don't get why there's CNN HD. I don't even watch regular CNN because of that damn ticker which isn't the best thing for a Plasma. During these election primaries, CNN HD looks like a complex video game screen, so they do take advantage of the wider frame but of course it's all still there faintly when you change the channel!
LCD, bitches

-Doc
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From: Lyon Estates
Originally Posted by Ayre
TBS = Baseball
TNT original programming is in HD.
All other programming is SD.
TNT original programming is in HD.
All other programming is SD.
Law and/or Order is in HD and isn't stretched on TNT. I rarely see stretched content on TNT HD. TBS seems all stretched as does A&E which sucks since they've been playing the Godfather a lot lately and it's unwatchable when stretched.
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From: coast to coast
Originally Posted by rfduncan
So Joe Sixpack doesn't call bitching that his HD channels (for which he is paying extra) aren't filling his new HDTV, of course. 

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Originally Posted by dick_grayson
Law and/or Order is in HD and isn't stretched on TNT. I rarely see stretched content on TNT HD. TBS seems all stretched as does A&E which sucks since they've been playing the Godfather a lot lately and it's unwatchable when stretched.
I am afraid if I watch any more TBSHD my TV will get stretch marks.
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Originally Posted by wiz
We don't get TBS HD anymore here in ATlanta...now we have Peacthree TV in HD and TBS is just analog again...
So, in Atlanta, we finally get the satellite version of TBS on cable (it was always the local version before, though only seldom different in programming) and we get a new local "independent" channel as well. (A win-win, IMO, unless one doesn't have cable or satellite service.)
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Originally Posted by Ayre
Not sure how I could have forgotten L&O. In our area (NE Ohio) TBSHD was specifically brought on board before baseball playoff started. TBS had bought a large share of the first couple rounds. Isn't My Boys HD?
I am afraid if I watch any more TBSHD my TV will get stretch marks.
I am afraid if I watch any more TBSHD my TV will get stretch marks.

Beginning in April, TBS has Sunday afternoon MLB games every week, so at least SOMETHING will be in HD for six months.
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Stretch-O-Vision, oh how I hate thee. And there's not even really any way to correct it, because usually it's that jacked up version where everything is fat on the outer edges and really skinny in the middle...



