I haven't noticed that so much, but what I have noticed is that HD is not exactly perfected to the point where it's streaming 100%, and that pisses me off. Case in point was this past summer's baseball allstar game, where we sat at a friends house watching it on his HDTV. It would constantly cut out for maybe 30 seconds at a time and then cut back in. It wasn't necessarily a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it did this 3 or 4 times towards the end of the game. It was literally the bottom of the 9th or 10th (I think it went into extra innings). We wound up putting it on "standard" cable and actually felt we were getting better quality.
What I also find interesting is how so many stations are advertising they're in hd, specifically in their call names or whatever you call them. It's like CBS News 2HD or NBC4HD, even when you're sitting there watching with rabbit ears. I understand they're filming with HD cameras, but I don't think it needs to be rammed down everyones throats. In my opinion, the quality of the television itself can do much more for the picture than any combination of converter boxes or cameras. At my grandmas house, she has an old General Electric TV from the 50s. Black and white with rabbit ears. It has clearer picture than some $3000 lcd's I've seen. Granted, it might be due to those tv's not being setup properly, but still. It's relatively new, so people MUST have it.
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