Sci-Fi HD...when can we watch?

[dlsnyder]

They must have been waiting until they could lower the resolution just enough so that most people wouldn't complain. For some reason SciFi HD doesn't look as good to me overall as some of the other HD channels Dish carries. BSG looked kind of, for lack of a better word, noisy on my TV.

Yeah, I know, there's always one in every crowd.

[rad]

That's just the wam BSG is, try to catch a rerun of Stargate Atlantis, that looks MUCH better IMHO, at least via D*.

[dlsnyder]

I may just do that. This would be a great time to rewatch the last season and see what I missed watching it in SD.

Is Eureka in HD? That's one of my favorites.

[whatchel1]

They must have been waiting until they could lower the resolution just enough so that most people wouldn't complain. For some reason SciFi HD doesn't look as good to me overall as some of the other HD channels Dish carries. BSG looked kind of, for lack of a better word, noisy on my TV.

Yeah, I know, there's always one in every crowd.

You are watching a technique that is intentional. I also noticed that it looked "grainy" . This is what they are going for. It's to make things look depressing and agitated.

[Jim S.]

The grain would be OK if the video wasn't compressed. But since it's compressed, it looks like crap. Torchwood gets like that occasionally, but not nearly as much as BSG. I wouldn't be surprised if HDnet was getting more bandwidth than Sci-Fi, but isn't HDnet still MPEG2 and Sci-Fi MPEG4, which wasn't supposed to require as much bandwidth to deliver a clean picture?

[8bitbytes]

If its an HD channel, why in the world would they show something that requires we zoom?

Because despite the HD label on the channel, most HD channels have very little that has been filmed in HD.

[8bitbytes]

Not everyone. Shows in red on the guide for me. Spoke to a csr and emailed ceo. Waiting to see if they are going to activate it. I get them sd with aep, but have Alaska HD. Just taunting me in red.

Did you reboot your DVR?

[harshness]

I wouldn't be surprised if HDnet was getting more bandwidth than Sci-Fi, but isn't HDnet still MPEG2 and Sci-Fi MPEG4, which wasn't supposed to require as much bandwidth to deliver a clean picture?

Noise does a lot more damage to MPEG4 than it does to MPEG2.

Perhaps we could convince them to squeeze the color down to reflect the gritty nature as opposed to introducing actual grit.

[Chena]

Did you reboot your DVR?

I did the button reboot and did the unplug reboot before calling.

Still red today.

[Sammy033]

If its an HD channel, why in the world would they show something that requires we zoom?

Not a clue. But its preferable to watching the same thing in SD until they get everything worked out and such points become moot. I hope.