we bought a big ol' 52 inch fancy lcd samsung tv. we decided to upgrade our directv to hd so we can get some more out of our tv (other than just watching bluray movies).
i knew it wasnt going to be as awesome as watching a hd disk movie because their broadcasts are quite compressed, but some of this "hd" programming is downright ugly. pixilated, blurry... just EXTREMELY unimpressive. ive even discovered that a lot of programming is simply non hd stuff that has been zoomed in to make it look hd. they dont even go as far as to redo some of the captions for people's names and credits as these programs have stuff hanging half way out of the tv's field of view. so im paying extra to not see the full camera shot. i would rather it be in standard format and the proper size than widescreen and filling up my whole tv and not being right.
to its credit some of the movie channels do look better and i know it all depends on what the program is being transmited as, but seriously... i feel extremely unimpressed with the quality of a lot of these channels. speed hd (the one i was looking forward to the most) has absolutely no HD programming available. ive looked and i see NOTHING.
so am in the only one that feels that the money i spent to upgrade was not worth it?
i knew it wasnt going to be as awesome as watching a hd disk movie because their broadcasts are quite compressed, but some of this "hd" programming is downright ugly. pixilated, blurry... just EXTREMELY unimpressive. ive even discovered that a lot of programming is simply non hd stuff that has been zoomed in to make it look hd. they dont even go as far as to redo some of the captions for people's names and credits as these programs have stuff hanging half way out of the tv's field of view. so im paying extra to not see the full camera shot. i would rather it be in standard format and the proper size than widescreen and filling up my whole tv and not being right.
to its credit some of the movie channels do look better and i know it all depends on what the program is being transmited as, but seriously... i feel extremely unimpressed with the quality of a lot of these channels. speed hd (the one i was looking forward to the most) has absolutely no HD programming available. ive looked and i see NOTHING.
so am in the only one that feels that the money i spent to upgrade was not worth it?