I had BBCA HD when I had Time Warner. It always looked washed out and just... meh. The SD DTV version didn't look look much different than TWC BBCA HD. I am shocked as to what I am seeing now on ch. 264. So vivid and beautiful. Stunning... maybe I'll check this Copper show out on Sunday.
Makes me wonder if the people that say "HDTV is overrated" or "HDTV is just a gimmick" have ever really seen a true HD feed.
Local restraunt has a nice 42" 1080P LCD and it feeding it with a SD only DirecTV receiver, morons.
If I were a HDTV manufacture I would be very restrictive on them as to require my authorized dealers to only use demo BluRay's given to them by me (the manufacture) for display demo's by having in the authorized dealer contract that our TV's on display may not show any source other than our demo BluRay's.
Reasoning? One dealer may have DirecTV, another might have DishNet, and another might have cable that is passing a upconverted SD feed as HD.
I'm starting to sound like a particular company that starts with a "A" aren't I? lol. Even they have gotten too relaxed.