Someone getting TBS HD via cable has confirmed the old TNT "stretch" on the new channel.
I really don't watch TNT but have flipped through it and seen standard def stuff stretched as I read so much about. Obviously, this stuff is not HD, and just a simulcast of the SD channel.
Isn't it true that they have this HD channel as a simulcast of the standard def in order to have HD available for HD programs, such as live sports, and that their initial intention was not to air
all HD programming?
Is everybody just mad that it is stretched SD or mad that it is not in HD?
I think TNT and TBS are standard def channels for the most part with it being a perk that some of the programming is in HD where available (people that also have the HD versions of the channels) and that it should not be expected that these channels in particular air all HD content.
If it is a simulcast of TBS or TNT of a standard def program, who cares if those programs are stretched? You don't like the stretch, just watch it on the standard def version with the black bars.
I don't recall them ever saying that TBS or TNT HD versions were going to be all HD programming.
There are other channels with newer, more original programming or premium channels where I would expect all HD content, but I never expected the garbage on TBS or TNT to be HD in the first place. I mean the old shows of course, not live sports.
Aren't the live sports 16x9 HD or is the actual HD content being stretched too? If they are there is no real reason for anybody to bitch. Sure stretching is stupid and I hate going to somebody else's house that stretches out the black bars to fill the screen in the first place on all channels that have black bars, but nobody has TNT HD that doesn't have SD TNT, so switch it over to the original channel during non-HD stuff. It isn't HD anyway.
(and yes I know the HD channels are much higher bitrate and if they didn't stretch the picture, and used black bars, the pq would be much better than the SD version. But this is another argument. They should be increasing the quality of the SD channels if the pq looks bad.)
The day they get rid of the old TNT and just have the HD, is the day we should bitch about the stretch and ask for black bars, but as long as they have both there is no reason to complain. You have a choice to turn on the version with the black bars.