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Yeah, I'm confused too. ABC World News is (I think) the standard network evening news show. But, I would have assumed it was already in HD, and what does the OP mean by "this morning"? ABC News Now (no "World") is an internet channel that is also carried on FIOS. (And in my area, on TVs...

I read both of those articles and I didn't see anything about them ACTUALLY changing their name. They were just making fun of how stupid the name is in light of the programming announcements.

Actually, the KFC thing was in response to the health backlash against fried foods. Which might make sense if they had added a bunch of grilled/roasted chicken items to the menu, but I think it's still almost all fried. EDIT- It probably also had to do with going global...wanted to get rid of...

I still don't get it. They are keeping the exact same name, just spelling it wrong. I get the point of being able to trademark it, which is probably the real point. This is all just marketing gobbledygook. -"What channel are you watching?" -"SciFi" -"I don't like Science Fiction. How is it...

I don't see how keeping the same name but spelling it wrong is trying to distance themselves from their identity.

MDRAM's talking about letterboxed programming. Shows that were shot in widescreen, but there are no HD masters available. And he/she's right...they should be upconverted. They wouldn't be stretched, they would be zoomed. You can do it yourself with your TV or STB, but they have much better...

Wow, this is one of the most idiotic things I've ever read here, and that's saying a lot. Let me get this straight...the benefits of HD are...in this order...increased color space, wider image, and increased bitrate. Resolution doesn't figure in there anywhere? Tony hit all the other...

Great, so all I have to do is put an all white image on the screen for 3-4 hours a day for a few years! I have a line that runs right along the edge of where the right side pillarbox bar is. It only shows up under certain color/brightness conditions...usually appears as a purple line against...

What are you talking about? It's true that Paxon owned it 10 or 12 years ago and it ran a lot of travel infomercials. But it's been a standard Discovery Network for years and years. I was kind of surprised when Discovery fired up the new HD channels that they went with Science Channel...

Watch your DVR timers. UHD broke the 24 hours into 3 or 4 chunks. For some reason, my 622 skipped the first 2 hours. And when I checked it this morning, it planned to skip the last two chunks in favor of Mythbusters reruns...I had to restore them manually and move the priority up to #1. This...

Agreed- especially since AMC used to have a tremendous film library. I assume Rainbow still has the library, they just don't show them. Does anyone know if the other 6 channels are being shown anywhere yet? FIOS? It appeared that as many as 4 more VOOM movie channels were in the works...Coda...

They are all pretty good for their individual program types. The only real problem is the repetition. This isn't quite as bad as it used to be. It's also exaggerated because of the lack of HD channels. ALL cable/sat channels are pretty darn repetitive. The difference is, when you've got a new...

Normally, I would disagree with you, but this press release is just stupid. First of all, what do the "It's Alive" movies have to do with Mummies? And all three of them were on last week anyway, so why are they announcing them for May? (On a second read, they aren't actually relating It's...

What's with the stupid smiley faces? Nice news, but aparently that means they're blowing off April and May like they did Feburary and March. I noticed yesterday that Film Fest was still showing the "program" for Janurary in their bumpers. (Although they weren't actually showing the same movies.)

HAHA! Everyone complaining about Voom's repetitiveness, clamoring for new HD channels...and they're going to be filled with Voom material! Me thinks that DISH won't be carrying NGHD, and Direct won't be carrying Voom any time soon.

Yup...the bugs still say "originals"

I just saw a promo 10 seconds ago that said "originals" And don't those new bugs in the upper right say "originals"? I was going to post something a few days ago about how the name "HD Originals" makes no sense.

Geez, it better be ratings. I'm sick of the religious right trying to interfere with what I can watch...especially the Catholic League. I thought it was a decent show, but I really don't care if it goes away. It's the principle. I also don't understand what the big deal was...It was a story...

Sean, the thing I thought was weird was that it specifically stated "Mastered from 35mm film for standard definition." So they were just using the same source a regular channel would use. I hope this isn't a view of the future. When people complain about the lack of variety, it's because HD...

I know a lot of the cartoons are up-converted...that was the first time I had seen it on a movie.

Just a quick note because I had never seen this before...Godzilla Fantasia on Monsters this weekend had a message at the front that it "...was mastered from 35mm film in standard definition- enhanced for 1080i..." It still looked OK... considering the poor quality of the source film, it...

If they launch the other 6 channels, Divine will likely not be one of them. We know that they planned to launch 6 new channels: Gameplay, Torque, Renew, Sizzle, Coda, & Cosmic. They also planned to bring back Lab. Divine, Gunslingers, Vice, HaHa, Majectic, and GuyTV seem to be retired. I've...

Technically speaking (in most cases), transfering film to HD-Video is a DOWN-convert. :)

Adj. 1. indomitable - impossible to subdue Adj. 1. abominable- unequivocally detestable I guess you COULD say Phibes was "impossible to subdue", but the name of the movie is "The Abominable Dr Phibes". :) Good flick...I had memories of it from watching as a child, but I didn't really "get...

Thanks. Translation...if it's not on DISH, it's probably not anywhere else. Unless they're also running fiber to, say, a Verizon headend. (Who wouldn't have any trouble getting it to FIOS towns.)