USA HD feed on Dish Yesterday and Today

[dgantz]

Has anyone noticed over the last couple of days that USA HD is not showing any HD programming? Something was going on yesterday for a few hours too where the Cleveland ABC local was mapped to 005-00 and to 008-00 (where the Cleveland Fox station is).

Is something odd going on with the Dish uplinks?

 

[dfergie]

Try it at 4 pm Edt, Barbershop II is on followed by the Dukes of Hazzard and the 40 Year Old Virgin with the HD block closing out with a L & O episode ... (all of these from my HR20 guide)

 

[hendrix04]

when i turned on USA last night during dukes it was HD...

 

[Jeff0575]

Not Everything is in HD on USA HD.

 

[james_k_p]

Yeah, just as I was disappointed that Sci FI HD didn't show Jeepers Creepers in HD .

 

[harshness]

Not Everything is in HD on USA HD.

More to the point, the majority of programming on USA HD is not in HD.

 

[kstile]

Stumbled on Mission: Impossible II on TBS-HD this wknd and it looked great, even OAR! Of course all those commercials and damn pop-ups make it nearly unwatchable, but it was nice to see good HD from one of these channels. Maybe they'll eventually all learn...

 

[wetz73]

Just like when you buy an HDTV everything isn't magically in HD, when a program is put on an HD station, it doesn't magically become HD. IT HAS TO BE SHOT IN HD TO BE HD!!!!!!!! It can be upconverted off of certain types of film, hence what Blu Ray does, but it CANNOT be upconverted off of video. So don't expect to see Cheers reruns in HD.

 

[thedamaja]

Just like when you buy an HDTV everything isn't magically in HD, when a program is put on an HD station, it doesn't magically become HD. IT HAS TO BE SHOT IN HD TO BE HD!!!!!!!! It can be upconverted off of certain types of film, hence what Blu Ray does, but it CANNOT be upconverted off of video. So don't expect to see Cheers reruns in HD.

Actually most film types have a resolution greater than that of 1920x1280 so no upconvert needed, just a remaster. This would include Cheers as it was shot to film.

 

[jansan]

USA-HD does not stretch the shows. If it is a 16:9 show, it will be in 16:9. 4:3 shows are not stretch on any NBCU feeds. The newer L&O shows were recorded in HD