Hope this is the right Forum for this HDTV Reception Question:
My 17 year old Sony Tube set is just about done and I lose the picture at times every day. So I have been looking at purchasing an HDTV Set for my Bell Express Vu service. I currently subscribe to Satellite 91 and have been told its about $10 - 12 more per month to get the HDTV Channels on Satellite 82. I have the 9200 PVR Receiver with capability of 25 Hours of HD Recording. There are 2 cables coming down from the roof into my Bell 9200 Receiver.
Today I went to the Electronics Store and everything was showing full screen on their canned HDTV, I asked the salesguy if he could show me the local CBC Channel 226 - without HDTV ON IT, (it was a 50 inch Panasonic HDTV) and to my great dissappointment there were 2 Wide Black Bars on the left and right hand side of the Picture? The salesguy showed me and demonstrated that the picture could be stretched to fill out those Black Bars but then the Picture is distorted!! Is this normal for NON HD Channels on ALL HDTV Sets?? My concern is that I have the 6 Basic Packages and East and West Feeds and I would think that certainly all of the channels would NOT be HDTV. So does this mean that say to watch CBC news or CTV news every evening I have to expect those annoying wide Black Bars on all the non HD Channels on a new HDTV Set??
My 17 year old Sony Tube set is just about done and I lose the picture at times every day. So I have been looking at purchasing an HDTV Set for my Bell Express Vu service. I currently subscribe to Satellite 91 and have been told its about $10 - 12 more per month to get the HDTV Channels on Satellite 82. I have the 9200 PVR Receiver with capability of 25 Hours of HD Recording. There are 2 cables coming down from the roof into my Bell 9200 Receiver.
Today I went to the Electronics Store and everything was showing full screen on their canned HDTV, I asked the salesguy if he could show me the local CBC Channel 226 - without HDTV ON IT, (it was a 50 inch Panasonic HDTV) and to my great dissappointment there were 2 Wide Black Bars on the left and right hand side of the Picture? The salesguy showed me and demonstrated that the picture could be stretched to fill out those Black Bars but then the Picture is distorted!! Is this normal for NON HD Channels on ALL HDTV Sets?? My concern is that I have the 6 Basic Packages and East and West Feeds and I would think that certainly all of the channels would NOT be HDTV. So does this mean that say to watch CBC news or CTV news every evening I have to expect those annoying wide Black Bars on all the non HD Channels on a new HDTV Set??