When we refuse to accept guys sitting around playing cards, drinking beer or riding skateboards as reasonable television programming, period. Wanna make an HD program? Take about fifty-five minutes of blurry stock footage of whatever in SD, shoot five minutes of a "host" in HD, make a fine dice, and fold it into the stock footage before it starts to coagulate. Yes, I know sports is incredible and some movies are actually presented in 16:9, and I am grateful. But if we keep taking this other crap, this is all we're ever going to get.

When we refuse to accept guys sitting around playing cards, drinking beer or riding skateboards as reasonable television programming, period.

Take THAT, INHD!

I've seen some great HD television programming recently. I found these channels called ABC, and CBS, and Fox, and NBC, and HBO, and SHO, and they have lots of great, original, and fantastic quality HD programming and/or recent movies every week. :)

But, if you want to show off the high quality of HDTV on sets in your retail electronics store, you really have to use the upconverted stuff with the black sidebars, usually the ones that say "ESPN-HD" or something like that.

Otherwise, customers won't be able to tell the difference. :rolleyes:

I've seen some great HD television programming recently. I found these channels called ABC, and CBS, and Fox, and NBC, and HBO, and SHO, and they have lots of great, original, and fantastic quality HD programming and/or recent movies every week. :)



Wait until you're laid up in bed or housebound for a few weeks. Watching that last episode of Entourage for fourtheenth time may break you, but I don't know. You may need forty or fifty more fat poker nerds pushing in a quarter of a million dollars in chips to back a seven-duece before you admit it to yourself: HD is a wasteland.

Don't worry, HD I Love Lucy is almost here.

Wait until you're laid up in bed or housebound for a few weeks. Watching that last episode of Entourage for fourtheenth time may break you, but I don't know. You may need forty or fifty more fat poker nerds pushing in a quarter of a million dollars in chips to back a seven-duece before you admit it to yourself: HD is a wasteland.

This about as silly a statement as has been made on the forum in a while.

Just in prime time, there are more than 70 hours of network programming a week. Get an YD DVR (or two) and when you are laid up in bed or housebound start playing some of those shows back. And don't pry yourself away from the "fat poker nerds" to watch anything on Discovery HD or ND Net or HD Net Movies or HBO or Showtime.

Most major markets now have at least one station doing local news in HD. And there are three hours of "Today" and two of "Good Morning America". Not to mention "The Tonight Show", "David Letterman", "Conan O'Brien", "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy".

And there is golf Thursday-Sunday, NASCAR on most Saturdays and Sundays and usually a couple of baseball games a night in HD.

Last fall there was an average of nine college football games a week in HD, this year there will be more. And there were as many as 12 NFL games each week presented in HD. There will be more NFL this year, with CBS adding a couple of games a week.

There is MLS, NBA, NHL and many minor sports in HD.

I am sure I have missed a lot of HD content -- Dish has a mass of Voom channels, for example.

If you can't find enough HD to get you to pry yourself away from SD poker shows you either have a broken remote, you aren't trying hard enough, or you don't have the proper provider.

Wait until you're laid up in bed or housebound for a few weeks.That's why God made borders.com.

Wait until you're laid up in bed or housebound for a few weeks. Watching that last episode of Entourage for fourtheenth time may break you, but I don't know. You may need forty or fifty more fat poker nerds pushing in a quarter of a million dollars in chips to back a seven-duece before you admit it to yourself: HD is a wasteland.

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Even though I'm on DirecTV, I still get plenty of HD material. Sports, primetime network shows, HBO, Showtime. and don't forget about bikini destinations, get out, and Art Man presents. what more could you ask for?