Centric HD?? 99% of the programming is from the 70's and 80's. CMT, have never seen HD on it. MTV, other then the real world nothing is in HD, VH1, hardly ever had HD on it. And Tru-TV is Stretch-0-Vision. Hopefully these channels will start to show HD content. I will give the NFL network props, when they first had HD, nothing was in HD besides the bottom scroller. And now Almost everthing is in HD. Why do channels decide to go HD when they dont have HD content to provide?
Centric and Logo deserve a small bit of derision. However, CMT does not. CMT does have occasional HD shows like My Big Fat Redneck Wedding. VH1 has
several HD reality shows. Examples are "Secrets of Aspen," "The T.O. Show," "Vancouver Peak Season" and "Rock of Love".
We're in sync on the stretch-o-vision. I hate it, too. I hate it way more than all the pillarboxing on Centric and Logo.
What I do not understand is why channels like TNT show programs like Bones in Stretchovision. Bones is a new enough show that every single episode was filmed in HD. What is the point in a separate HD Chanel. If I just want Stretchovision I can just push the stretch to fit on my TV.
I have to say I would much rather watch SD than stretched content. Stretched is just beyond annoying to me. I just will not watch it.
TNT and the Warner networks deserve to be yelled at. However, the worst offenders are Food Network and HGTV. They use non-linear stretching that can't even be unstretched by the priciest video processors.
For A&E? The consumer backlash against A&E in the early days for being a HD channel with not much HD caused them to go to stretch-o-vision to fool the people complaining that I paid xxxx for my TV and it better be full.
Zoom-o-vision doesn't exist too much anymore. Discovery now pillarboxes like most responsible channels. I think Travel Channel is the last one to use zoom-o-vision.