It’s not fair that you can’t be troubled to use capital letters or punctuation.
It also wasn’t fair where for years FOX would air sporting events where the scoreboard was floating near the middle of screen and every single shot of the newsdesk would have 1/3 of the screen focused on the area to the sides of the talking heads. They were obviously filming for a 4:3 aspect, which looked silly on a 16:9 tv.
Glad to hear they’re finally making having a 16:9 tv worthwhile. If you’re gonna stay in the stoneage with your ancient electronics, you have no right to bitch when the rest of us adapt.
This is quite silly. There are two broadcasts, one for HD, one non-HD. There’s no reason for them to make it only correct on one. It’s can be made for both without affecting each other.
And not everyone has the money to blow on a new TV when they have one that works fine already. Not to mention the extra cost for HD channels.
this is the internet not school lol heck capital letters and heck punctuation
And this is why no one takes you seriously.
I’ll heck your punctuation.
And get off of my lawn!
If you don’t care enough to present your posts well, why should we care enough to take them seriously, or even read them?
I was surprised to hear my sister say this, and now you. HD channels are completely free on Cablevision, and I assumed that was the norm. All you have to do is call them up to activate the HD channels and they turn on the HD version of whatever channels you’re already paying for. The HD DVR is also the same price as the regular one. Anyone else get a similar deal with their cable/satellite service, or is Cablevision unique?
His friend wants to know, I think.
U-Verse HD is $10/mo extra, or you get it free with their highest tier of service.
Every cable or satellite service I’ve ever had has been HD-channels-free. Though I have seen a couple where the HD DVR is ~$5 more than the normal DVR, so they backdoor you a bit there.
It’s been what, five years since you could walk into Best Buy and buy a SD TV? Ten? I think at this point we’re pretty justified in calling HD the new normal.
Even if other HD channels cost money, HD of OTA stations have to be sent free and clear. Although I use a HD-DVR for one TV, the other one is just plugged into the cable for analog-only. However, I still get the OTA channels in HD by using the QAM tuner in the TV. If I could get a decent signal with an antenna, I’d use that instead as it generally (though not always) gives a better picture than the channel over cable.
Of all the networks showing NFL games (ABC, CBS, ESPN, NBC, NFL) why is it only FOX that places the televised in-game running scoreboard in the upper left corner? When I record using a DVR or even watch live and use one of the many options (such as zoom) available in modern wide screen HD TVs the scoreboard in a FOX telecast is either partially visible or not at all visible. I’ve tried altering every setting I can think of but nothing corrects this problem. P.S. This is 2014 and the problem has been around for years.
You’re the one altering the screen. Why expect a broadcaster to know or care how you are changing the display? I don’t want a football broadcast to accommodate antedeluvian sets, it’s a waste of screen space.
Kinda missing the point. It’s not just the TV, it’s the Fox broadcast.
I have wide screen HDTVs throughout my house, with the exception of the kitchen. There I have a not-so-old SD TV, hooked up to a SD cable box. As mentioned above, Fox is the only broadcaster who chooses to send their SD signal in widescreen, chopped off on the sides, so their score widget becomes useless. Frankly, “altering the screen” on my end results in only blowing up/zooming what Fox is choosing to send - it doesn’t help me see the score box that’s not even on the screen.
So while we can tell all the posters hanging on to old technology to “get with the times” and upgrade their TVs … there’s nothing wrong with telling Fox to do what every single other broadcaster out there does, which is not screw over those watching in SD.