TNT HD SUCKS
I have an HD TV and it is amazing. I love it. Unfortunately, Cablevision only offers about 18 channels in HD with my package, and even more unfortunate, they somehow count TNT HD as one of those channels. I want to clarify here: TNT HD offers very few shows in actual HD. The vast majority of the shows are 4:3 ratio shows that they’ve decided to stretch out to widescreen to fake HD for all the fools out there who think that widescreen = HD. I get really annoyed everytime I go into a sports bar that has an HDTV and they are watching sports on the non-HD channels and using the TVs stretch feature to distort the 4:3 video to widescreen. Doesn’t anyone stop to ask: “What’s with all these wide short people on TV?” Where do people really look like that?
It’s bad enough to see regular people making this mistake, but to think that someone who works in television actually *thinks* that doing this to all the non-HD shows on their network is a good thing just sickens me. //rant off
ps—They even stretch out their commercials! If I were an advertizer on TNT, I’d ask for my money back.
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September 18th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
I was disappointed the other week to find out that this is the same story with UPN in my area. I guess I’ll have to resort to the internet for my HD high school private eye drama.
October 19th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
i HATE stretching! it looks so bad! i live in south florida and local10 news and 7news stetch their newscasts on their HD channels and it look so bad. it makes their reporters look short and fat. just what i want to see.
luckily, nbc6 and cbs4 don’t stretch. go them.
March 17th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
It’s March 17, 2007, and those idiots at TNT are still doing it. Bastards!
September 30th, 2007 at 12:20 am
I pay a lot of extra money for HD programming, why is it edited for content and time and filled with commercials, if this the best these butt munch’s at TNT can do GET THE HELL OFF HDTV.
Get your God Dam logo off the screen, what do you think I want to record your chopped up movie? Hell I can barely watch it the way it is, burning a hole into my screen, screw this I will just go buy the 15 year old movie at Xal Mart for $5.50 and I will call your advertisers and tell them I will not buy their products because of TNT, and I suggest that other viewers readers do the same.
Let’s hear it for video purity.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Plain and simple, broadcasters are just battling for quantity and not quality. Macro-blocking (compression) on HD feeds has to stop. I feel that if its compressed, its not true HD.
But like most things in America, what you hear or see, is often not what you thought you heard or saw. - Josh