Nice to see the new HD channels are on

[TRSmudge]

Just turned on the Tv and saw the new channels.....
Nice.....

 

[Posty-McPOst]

I had checked less than 30 minutes ago and they weren't up yet.

 

[?Sa?dma???]

yep sure is nice to see them.......even tho 4 of them say "off the air".
hopefully that will be rectified by tomorrow.

 

[digiblur]

Uplink report is up....

 

[JayPSU]

CSN ChicagoHD is up!!!!

 

[spamatdan]

Just turned on the Tv and saw the new channels.....
Nice.....

Here on the West Coast, the new HD channels are up for me as well. They all say off air, but selecting them, thar be programming in process! yay!

now for my 622 software update. LOL

I guess I have to go to bed soon so it can do its thing after hours.

 

[Claude Greiner]

Discovery and learning channel look awesome on my 63 inch Plasma HDTV

 

[dfergie]

Nice catch... stuck and linked to from Homepage

 

[Paradox-SJ]

Man...you guys all need to get a life.......









oops HD videos are back on.....gotta go

 

[LASooner]

They don't appear to be Stretch-o-Vision, they appear to be Crop-o-vision.

Looks like the discovery channels are all zoomed to mask the 4:3 image to 16:9.

Titles, credits and lower 3rd text all appear to be cropped instead of the TNT stretch. I don't know if I like this yet. The HD programs look good though.

 

[jackattack]

this is awesome. new channels r up for me in Chicago. Also they finally put Comcast HD channel up. very excited with all of this.

 

[dfergie]

Vs had Women Tap out fighters upconverted in 4:3... when I checked

 

[kstuart]

I want my NASA-HD !

 

[drdroo]

I want my NASA-HD !

Yknow.. Me too dude.. I wish Dish carried all 3 of the SD channels from the C band in the meantime, but I'd love NASA in HD.

 

[levibluewa]

New HD Channels

are up and running...YEAH!!! 1:15 AM PT.

 

[KE4EST]

Yep right on time.

 

[JIGGIEFLY]

Yes i have the new channels looked at them and they look pretty good

 

[JoeSp]

I just check and at 6:30am a few of the new HD channels are selling stuff -- I hope this only happens late at night. Animal Planet is pretty cool and I am recording something for my wife to watch this afternoon.

 

[gopherscot]

CSN ChicagoHD is up!!!!

Saw that myself ... now all three ofmy RSN's are in HD. (Fox North, FoX Midwest and now Comcast Chicago) Wow ... this was a pleasant surprise!

 

[who_the]

They don't appear to be Stretch-o-Vision, they appear to be Crop-o-vision.

Looks like the discovery channels are all zoomed to mask the 4:3 image to 16:9.

Here they looked cropped to about 15:9 with narrow black bars on either side. Not all SD shows are 'safe' at that aspect ratio, so it's an interesting decision. Expect to see a fair amount of chopped heads.

Cheers