Nice to see the new HD channels are on

**skyviewmark** · 08-15-2007 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by ScoBuck

And these new HD channels are in what resolution?

Whatever resolution they are in, is better than not being at all somewhere else..

No I am not going to get into the my DBS is better than your DBS fight..

**ScoBuck** · 08-15-2007 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by mdonnelly

We're all waiting for Gary Murrell to weigh in on that.

Thanks

**CubsWin** · 08-15-2007 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

Just games.

Goalie Bob will be happy when he gets home.

This is ridiculous. CSN Chicago HD should be 24/7!!!

I'm just kidding.

What a nice surprise today for us Chicagoland subscribers! I'm excited about being able to watch almost half of Cubs broadcasts in HD.

**JThree** · 08-15-2007 02:09 PM

Yikes! Just watching Haunting on Discovery HD and they are doing some panoramic kind of thing where the center of the screen in normal but as you move to the sides of the screen the picture gets more and more stretched. Very bad looking!

**mdonnelly** · 08-15-2007 02:11 PM

The next HD CSN Cubs game I can find is Monday afternoon. Then a Sox game Monday night.

**cummingsje** · 08-15-2007 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by JThree

Yikes! Just watching Haunting on Discovery HD and they are doing some panoramic kind of thing where the center of the screen in normal but as you move to the sides of the screen the picture gets more and more stretched. Very bad looking!

I have an Olevia 32" LCD upstairs and it has a panoramic setting that looks just like you are describing. Why a manufacturer would waste an aspect ratio setting on that is beyond me. It looks like a fun house mirror.

**cebbigh** · 08-15-2007 05:45 PM

The PQ seems very good to my eyes. On my oldy Panasonic 53" RS I've noticed on the MPEG4 channels (most noticable on Nat Geo) there is a sometime tendency for a bluish outline on the right side of faces. Never see that with the MPEG2 stations. But so far on the new MPEG4 channels I haven't seen it at all. The PQ looks outstanding to me. (I'm speaking only about the PQ as piped by Dish. They have no control over the stretchovision).

**CubsWin** · 08-15-2007 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by mdonnelly

The next HD CSN Cubs game I can find is Monday afternoon. Then a Sox game Monday night.

Will the HD channel broadcast the widescreen games that aren't HD? I often see them advertising widescreen broadcasts when the Cubs or Sox are playing on the road.

**digiblur** · 08-15-2007 08:03 PM

"Really Big Things" on Discovery HD looks great right now. Full 16x9. Aerial shots looked great. Even the wife said.. "Now that's HD"

**Foxbat** · 08-15-2007 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by digiblur

"Really Big Things" on Discovery HD looks great right now. Full 16x9. Aerial shots looked great. Even the wife said.. "Now that's HD"

I yelled for my wife to come upstairs to watch the Burj Dubai / Ski Dubai segment. I got to ski in there last May, but the video I took was all 15fps and 320x200 with my Olympus. The HD camera work looks much better.

The pictures I took of the Burj Dubai were taken when it was only 42 stories tall. The current state is 145 stories, over 100 more than when I was there in May 2006. For more, check out
Burj Dubai Official Website

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Mythbusters looks like SD zoomed, though.