ESPN HD -- Not!

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J. wrote:
> Watching poker on ESPN's so-called high def last night -- some high def:
> 720dpi and then they have the audacity to put side bars/pillars on the
> screen to simulate that the picture is actually standard wide screen. Bunch
> of BS.
>
> J.

When the picture is pillarboxed, then it is upconverted SD, not true
HD (with movies or rescanned filmed TV shows as the possible exception).
ESPN-HD should be called ESPN-not a whole lot of-HD, but I don't see how
putting on their logo sidebars is supposed be BS simulating wide screen.
They are putting out a 16:9 720p signal, it is just that most of their
game feeds are still SD and outside of the major league games for which
ever sport, are likely to remain so for years.

Alan F