SciFi cuts back on ENT Mondays

[SFRabid]

Regarding the HD broadcast of Enterprise, is it stretched? To my eyes it does not look like it is naturally wide screen.

 

[SFRabid]

Noname Given said:
... I also hope Paramount will eventually put the series out on Blu-Ray, as devoting 6 hours off my DVR storage to keep the Vulcan and Andorian arcs available in HD then they are finally shown this summer will be a sizeable chunk.

So far Paramount is backing HD-DVD, but since Toshiba announced it is dropping HD-DVD and conceding the victory over formats to Blue Ray it is expected that all HD-DVD production will shift to Blue Ray very soon.

 

[Noname Given]

SFRabid said:
Regarding the HD broadcast of Enterprise, is it stretched? To my eyes it does not look like it is naturally wide screen.

Looks absolutely gorgeous (and non-stretched) on my 16:9 Mitsubishi 73" DLP TV off of HDNET - in fact I just watched E2, The Xindi (which was better tyhen I remembered it - and I originally skipped DVRing it on the Mnday HDNET feed); and Anomoly again last night.

 

[Cyrus]

SFRabid said:
Regarding the HD broadcast of Enterprise, is it stretched? To my eyes it does not look like it is naturally wide screen.

Most definitely it's not stretched. HDNet channel (unlike TNT-HD) never shows anything that way. They may crop a show to make it widescreen (e.g. Hogan's Heros) but never the crappy stretched widescreen. And in case of ENT they don't have to do anything since the series was made widescreen right from the start. Stretched presentations don't belong on HD channels since they aren't really HD, I wish TNT would stop doing it.

 

[Noname Given]

Cyrus said:
Stretched presentations don't belong on HD channels since they aren't really HD, I wish TNT would stop doing it.

QFT - I hate TNT for that reason - and it's very easy to see when they just stretch stuff (a lot of the A&E held HD channels do it too - except for Discovery HD Theatre).

 

[Krankor]

Can't think of a better show for it to lose an hour to.