http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/ Engadget HD Comments for Popular Mechanics: Fix your HDTV picture http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/I watch a fair amount of HD and - though I love the show - 24 is some of the worst PQ I have ever seen for a primetime broadcast. There is so much macroblocking and compression...I wish FOX would sit down and give us 24 with the PQ of LOST or DHD Theater...]]>Jul 5th 2006 1:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/
Also, I get similar problems from DirecTV when trying to watch some regular MPEG-2 HD on HDnet/Movies, etc., but then again I know how D* operates (e.g. HDlite).]]>Jul 5th 2006 5:49PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/I'm sorry for the vagueness of that statement, but hopefully someone can fill in the details for me.
In either case, my understanding based on what I had heard was that the problem was with Fox and not my affiliate.]]>Jul 6th 2006 7:36AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/You got it half right, Fox has HD, but like you said they also have what they call "Fox Widescreen" which is basicly EDTV. Sometimes when people think they are watching HD on Fox they don't realize they are watching Fox Widescreen, for example on the show Cops.]]>Jul 6th 2006 7:55AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/1) 24 is a show that is broadcast from Fox in Fox Widescreen
2) it's recorded in true hi-def but my affiliate is compressing it more

Part of me wants to believe it's #2 since I can't imagine Fox would not record their most popular show in hi-def...]]>Jul 6th 2006 8:09AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/Jul 6th 2006 9:01AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/05/popular-mechanics-fix-your-hdtv-picture/I mean, you can call something HD because you recorded it or sent it to the affiliates in atleast 1280x720, but if there's so much compression that it doesn't even meet DVD quality standards, then what's the point of all that resolution?
In other words, I think technically you could have a terrible picture that meets resolution standards (as I've heard of some of the conversions onto HD-DVD/BD have been), but I don't really consider that HD.]]>Jul 6th 2006 11:39AM