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... if you're not going to watch HD programming? I was at a barbecue restaurant on Sunday, and the facility had laid out the cash for what looked like a 50-inch plasma hung on the wall, tuned to ESPN. Not, however, ESPN HD. Just standard def ESPN, smooshed out to fill the entire screen. Now, granted, since I wanted to see how the Mavs game ended (Sigh. Now can we trade for Kidd?), I appreciated the fact that there was a TV at all. But, c'mon people! Just buying the television doesn't mean you have HD! HD television + HD video source = HD watching. Accept no substitutes. |
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Posted by Rob @ 10:32 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2008
I see this all the time and it just boggles the mind. As a matter of fact, the majority of restaurants and sports bars I've been to with large LCD HDTVs hanging on the wall are usually showing stretched SD programming on them. What a total waste...
Posted by Steve W @ 1:43 PM Wed, Feb 13, 2008
Heck, Wal-Marts and Targets are showing video through coax cable instead of HDMI cables so that's not true HD. To compound that on some TVs they are stretching SD images out to fill the screen. [The Target logo is round ... not oval.]