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>Let's say I am watching a football game in hi-def, on my 32' LCD TV. I
>don't really know if it's 720 or 1080 - the point is, the image fills
>every pixel of the screen at 16:9, and it looks fantastic. Literally,
>you can see every blade of grass. I am in video heaven.
>
>Then, I switch over to PBS and watch, oh, Nature or Masterpiece or
>something like that. I know PBS is broadcasting in hi-def but the
>image is often letter-boxed 16:9, with several inches of black space
>all around. Sure, I can expand it in some fa****on using the TV aspect
>controls but then it either is distorted or else has a certain
>fuzziness that detracts from the quality.
>
>It's not like this all the time - I think some PBS programs really are
>full-screen hi-def, like I would have expected. But it seems like the
>ones I really want to see are smaller than the available space.
>
>What is going on here? Why isn't PBS hi-def like football-game hi-def?
>I read about some PBS stations doing some sort of bandwidth-saving
>compromise on their hi-def broadcasts - is this what I am seeing?
>
As other posters have hinted, it depends on which PBS station you are
watching, how you get it (OTA, cable, sat, what?) and when you watch.
They
don't necessarily provide 16x9 1080i HD (or sometimes 16x9 480p
'widescreen') every time a particular program is on.
In my market, I can only see the true HD or widescreen version of a PBS
program if it is on the national HD channel itself. Many stations are
simulcasting that channel along with a SD subchannel of their regular
analog OTA station. You may be viewing the latter.
In some markets, they may provide something like 5 SD channels during the
day and one SD and one HD in the evening, but this is OTA. What cable or
sat provide may be different.
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