I've had my VIP211 receiver for a couple months and I've never seen TNT HD look decent at any time. The quality is just unbelievable. Also, If you see any dark areas in the picture, there's a lot of blue specks all over the place. Is it that way on other providers too or just E*?
Is it just me or does TNT HD look horrible?
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Yup, TNTHD is the worst looking "HD" channel by far. I think all they do is stretch alot of their SD shows. If you switch back and forth between the channels you can tell.
rcbridge said:
Ditto! The NBA looks fantastic but the rest of the programming doesn't look that good.
Actually some of the rest of the programming is also very good.
TNT is still broadcasting a number of programs from SD source material over their HD channel. They apply their own stretching algorithm to fill a 16:9 screen. It zooms the vertical a little and then aggressively stretches the sides of the horizontal. For the past couple of years this has been referred to on HD forums as TNT Stretch-0-Vision.
The live sports are almost all true HD.
Movies are 50-50. Some are excellent HD, others are stretched SD.
Syndicated TV shows are mostly SD, although some of them are native 16:9 SD, so at least they aren't stretched.
All in all, a very shoddy HD channel.
TNT is still broadcasting a number of programs from SD source material over their HD channel. They apply their own stretching algorithm to fill a 16:9 screen. It zooms the vertical a little and then aggressively stretches the sides of the horizontal. For the past couple of years this has been referred to on HD forums as TNT Stretch-0-Vision.
The live sports are almost all true HD.
Movies are 50-50. Some are excellent HD, others are stretched SD.
Syndicated TV shows are mostly SD, although some of them are native 16:9 SD, so at least they aren't stretched.
All in all, a very shoddy HD channel.
On TNTHD, all I watch is NBA, Cold Case, and some of the movies, Everything looks great except for some of the movies.
There was one night this season that TNT stretched a basketball game. It also appeared as if you were looking through a coke bottle, or a magnifying glass - some wierd convex imaging that gave me a headache. I had to change the channel.
TNT sucks.
TNT sucks.
