Thread: What can we do about these HD-wannabe channels?

Here's something I posted on the forums at
www.abcfamily.com

after getting disgusted with their total lack of non prime-time HD programming on their HD channel. Feel free to use as inspiration for your own similar rants. Maybe they don't think anybody is actually watching in HD, if enough of us gripe hopefully they will do something.


ABC Family: Am I the only one who cares what the picture looks like?

OK, first off, I want to say that the original shows like "Secret Life" look great in high definition and we enjoy watching them. But here's something I don't understand about ABC Family HD. Actually, the main thing I don't understand is why more viewers aren't complaining about it.

I am a confused husband who is also a techno-geek. I'm sitting here with my wife this weekend watching "ABC Family HD" and she has been watching several movies that were originally shown widescreen in the theatre, including "Practical Magic" which has been advertised as the "cable premiere" of this film. We have the HD package from our satellite provider and the HD logo is clearly visible in the corner when we watch ABC Family. Yet not one of these films has been shown in its original aspect ratio and the image is obviously upscaled from a Standard Definition copy of the film. At least it isn't stretched.

And before anybody says have I got everything adjusted right, yes I watch Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis so I know what a HD picture is supposed to look like. Told you I was a geek.

Except for the brand new stuff in prime time, I am very disappointed in the amount of content that should be, but isn't, high definition. Why so slow to bring things up to speed?

I do not waste my time with them.

Experience with human beings shows that any attempt to get any human being to change anything they are doing is a waste of your time.

Channels launch HD versions in order to secure space on cable and satellite systems.

If channels cared anything about viewers, they would not pop up ads while the programs were running.

They are more likely to spit in my face than to change something they are doing because I complain about it.