Where's CNN HD?

There's no bandwidth for the stuff that needs to be in true HD like Movies.

They are not going to send HD feeds back on remotes, on widescreen 16:9 480i, thus I don't want the bandwidth wasted at this point as they will just take it from HBO, SHO or some other place.

And, do you really want to see Larry King in HD?

i'd like to see field reporting done in HD, not just studio shots. perhaps CNN will be the first to provide something like that.

Priceless........ :-)

Actually, according to the ratings, CNN needs viewers first.

Steve

Too late. HDNet claimed that crown a LONG time ago.

Scary, he already looks like the living dead.

Now, Lou Dobbs on the other hand...

Paula Zahn in HD, I'll go for that.

forgive me i have comcast.

True but they repeat the same show for the week

A much better alternative than, say, Greta Van Sussteren in HD on Fox!

Seriously though, news doesn't need to be HD to be compelling and there's just no need for it at the moment. Besides it's not like CNN is flush with cash now that it comes in a distant second (and sometimes, like with 'Paula Zahn,' third) to the F***s News Channel.

How is it that CNN, the largest news organization on the planet doesn't have an HD channel? This seems almost ridiculous to me. Do they figure people simply don't really care about watching their news with increased resolution? Here's hoping the powers that be over at CNN figure out that the largest news organization in the world NEEDS to have an HD feed!

John from Boston

Look for it late next year.

CNN uses HD cameras and has spent a lot of time upgrading their operations to support it.

Just for accuracies sake, CNN might have the most employees, but The Associated Press covers far more news from many, many more bureaus worldwide.

Here are its statistics:

3,700 AP editorial, communications and administrative employees worldwide

242 total bureaus worldwide

1,700 U.S. daily, weekly, non-English and college newspapers

5,000 radio/TV outlets taking AP

1000 AP Radio Network affiliates taking AP Network News

330 International broadcasters who receive AP's global video news service, APTN, and SNTV, a sports joint venture video service.

8,500 International subscribers who receive AP news and photos

121 number of countries served by AP

5 languages, including English, German, Dutch, French and Spanish. The report is translated into many more languages by international subscribers.

Hmmmmmm. Okay. My apologies for not specifying I was speaking of a television news organization! I thought that would have been obvious on a television forum...silly me! Let me know where I can find AP Net. And I thought I had a lot of time on my hands!

John from Boston

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HD news coverage is something I've been looking for for a while now. I don't understand why anyone would think the news shouldn't be in HD?

We have wars going on, natural disasters occuring, humanitarian crises abound, and reporters standing in the middle of the action. Is this not arguably one of the BEST uses for HD? I would've loved to have seen some of those shots inside Haifa after a rocket landed in widescreen HD to get a better idea of the damage and what the situation really looked like on the street. Imagine live coverage during hurricanes in HD? Waves crashing against the shore, etc. That would look incredible.

I wish SOME network would step up. Hey, wasn't MSNBC supposed to be the "high tech" news channel back in the day? Maybe if they go HD, they could get something going over there other than that one guy making lame jokes about O'Reilly to get a headline.

If anyone is going to do it, with the resources they have, it should be CNN. They are the least bad, and in many ways the best, of the three cable news channels. I look forward to them doing it well, though, as TurboDan outlined above. Also, their excellent documentaries should look great!

However, CNN is not without its flaws. IMO it needs to be more intelligent, more dignified, less sensational, and give more time and background to the important stories. I would bet that if they watch their ratings less while focusing more on honorable, valuable news, being #1 will take care of itself.

A "Fox-light" channel will not help anyone. Fox News already has the low class audience who would rather be entertained than informed, CNN needs to differentiate its product more. When they start interviewing porn stars to further copy Fox News is when I give up on them. But I don't see that happening.

So...

Amen

I know Paula's attractive, but am I the only one that has a hard time watching her show? I'ts hard for me to watch her for even a few minutes. And I know they paid here a ton a money.

Now to get back to the OP question: CNN doesn't even have a digital feed on C-band. I know cable companies don't have CNN digital feeds there analog I believe. So CNN would have to launch a HD feed which I'm sure there planning on it. And on c-band there analog feed is pretty good stuff, as good as any digital channel I've seen on cable.

Someone mentioned HDNet's early role in 1080i news coverage. Their World Report often features current international news events, and recall some live coverage of news events, too, although not surprisingly that has to include some tedium that takes place routinely.

Don't doubt that CNN has jacked up the flashy graphics/audio, sensational coverage, and excessive self-aggrandizements in direct response to Fox News, which pushes the same--apparently successfully to capture audiences. Next up in the war: Fox TV rolls out regular 720p 'news' features of busty babes in bikinis, as in News Corp.'s British tabloids (well...almost), and CNN has to follow with the same in 1080i. -- John

Speaking of HDNet's 1080i news coverage - do they use their own cameras to film news events or is that stock footage from someone else? Since no one else is doing HD news, I wonder where their content originates.

This is a thread about CNN and/or other news channels in HD. We'll allow technical discussions and posts regarding image presentation. Comments on the content have little to do with HD, but we'll allow some of those as long as they don't turn political. I've removed political comments.

Voom has the HDnews channel. Kinda like CNN Headline news but in HD.

Actually, Voom has 24-hr news channel in HD (available on Dish Network): http://www.voom.com/vhdo/news/index.jsp

It repeats quite often, but unlike HDNet is all HD news all the time, so I guess it is the 1st and only of its kind. Don't know about the originality of most of their footage, but they did send a reporter to Lebanon during the recent crisis.

In any event there is probably no cable or satellite operator that would even consider adding a 'CNN-HD' to their line ups.

Just about all operators are starved for available bandwidth to carry new HD services and presently prioritize sports, movies, locals and hd versions of popular basic cable services such as TNT and Discovery.

Even Verizon would probably balk at having to pay an additional carriage fee to carry CNN-HD when the SD version struggles for decent viewing numbers.

Frontline does some HD stories from time to time. They just showed a repeat of a story they did in 2004 from Iraq of the MASH units and injured soldiers. Pretty compelling stuff.

It appears that all the video clips on the CNN website are 16 x 9, but certainly not HD. However, the picture is very clear in most cases. I wonder if they are filmed in HD, or just SD widescreen.

Directv has announced at CES they plan to add CNN in HD in 2007.