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I just found out that my cable system is adding the HD version of the Sci-Fi channel next week. Should I be happy, or is it going to be like A&E etc. and just be stretched copies of shows?
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
I'm sure it's going to be a little stretch and a little real HD.
What cable system...and where, Scott?
I'm a ****ing idiot 'cause I can't make a lamp?
No, you're a genius 'cause you can't make a lamp.
What do you know about trigonometry?
I could care less about trigonometry.
Did you know without trigonometry there would be no engineering? Without lamps there'd be no light.
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
I am on Comcast in the Salt Lake City area.
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
I've never seen Sci-Fi stretch material. Most of its 4:3 material is shown that way and that's the majority of what they have available though most the newer series have been shown Full HD -- SG Atlantis and surely Season 4 of BSG.
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
Unlike a lot of the other stations, the NBC/Universal channels seem to be pretty good about not stretching. What they aren't necessarily good about is actually getting HD sources; I'm always amused when I flip it on and Enterprise is running with black on all four sides, for instance.
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
I don't know if it is Sci-Fi or if Comcast in my area is actually sending the SD feed to their designated HD channel, but I also get standard stuff in 4:3 and widescreen material letterboxed within the pillarboxed 4:3 window. I have yet to see anything on the channel show up as 16:9. Not worth watching. If I want to watch SF in SD I just tune into the SD channel.
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Joe
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
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Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino
I don't know if it is Sci-Fi or if Comcast in my area is actually sending the SD feed to their designated HD channel, but I also get standard stuff in 4:3 and widescreen material letterboxed within the pillarboxed 4:3 window. I have yet to see anything on the channel show up as 16:9. Not worth watching. If I want to watch SF in SD I just tune into the SD channel.
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Joe
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SCI Fi shows HD shows properly on DirecTV -- Every Enterprise or SG Atlantis I've seen is 16:9 so if they are windowboxed on your system then Comcast is at fault.
Right now -- 5pm EDT SG Atlantis is full 16:9 HD (not windowboxed) while the XFiles from 4-5 pm EDT was a properly pillarboxed 4:3.
And to mess with everybody -- 6-7pm Stargate (2001) was 4:3 pillarbox while 7-8pm SG1 (2005) was 16:9 windowboxed.
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
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| Every Enterprise or SG Atlantis I've seen is 16:9 so if they are windowboxed on your system then Comcast is at fault. |
Why am I not surprised?
Joe
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
I don't know about CNN, but I can tell you why
I need Food Network in HD:
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Joe
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
Here's two more.
I'm a ****ing idiot 'cause I can't make a lamp?
No, you're a genius 'cause you can't make a lamp.
What do you know about trigonometry?
I could care less about trigonometry.
Did you know without trigonometry there would be no engineering? Without lamps there'd be no light.
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
Yes, the bread and the pasta
do look yummy.
Joe
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
What? No love for Cat Cora?
It is strangely difficult to find a really, er,
good picture of Sandra Lee on the 'net. I guess this will have to do:
What was this thread about again?
Joe
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
Always thought Chef Cora was smokin' and that pic drives it home. (Even if it is airbrushed within an inch of it's life.)
oh...er....uh...Sci-Fi in HD....yeah....that's it.
I'm a ****ing idiot 'cause I can't make a lamp?
No, you're a genius 'cause you can't make a lamp.
What do you know about trigonometry?
I could care less about trigonometry.
Did you know without trigonometry there would be no engineering? Without lamps there'd be no light.
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
Sadly I can confirm that although they call it Sci-Fi HD, they are showing the SD version of Battlestar Gallactica. It is 16x9 shown in a 4x3 window which means there are bars on all 4 sides and the picture is tiny. I can use the "zoom" function to fill the screen but since it is only an SD source, it looks crappy.
Is this a comcast thing, or an issue with the Sci-Fi channel?
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
My experience with Sci-Fi HD on Comcast is that anything new since they've started the HD feed has been in HD, but that's about it. So we'll get Tin Man in HD, but not last year's TV episodes. I'm pretty sure we'll get Battlestar in HD starting Friday, but I tend to be skeptical about anything a year old or more.
Jay's Movie Blog - A movie-viewing diary.
Transplanted Life: Sci-fi soap opera about a man placed in a new body, updated two or three times a week.
Trading Post Inn - Another gender-bending soap, with different collaborators writing different points of view.
"What? Since when was this an energy ball...
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Re: Sci-Fi Channel in HD
Just found out that Cox here in Oceanside CA added Sci-Fi HD. I know what I'll be checking out tonight. Fingers crossed for lots of real HD.
I'm a ****ing idiot 'cause I can't make a lamp?
No, you're a genius 'cause you can't make a lamp.
What do you know about trigonometry?
I could care less about trigonometry.
Did you know without trigonometry there would be no engineering? Without lamps there'd be no light.
