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My understanding is that pure HD is when you receive full screen on "Normal".?
My cable provider "Rogers" in Canada, says that all these special channels are HD, which I am paying for.
I am assuming that of the 3 settings on my HDTV, normal, stretch and Zoom. The Normal setting should provide full screen HD if a network says it is so.
Why is that not the case? Many "so called HD channels" have the vertical bars up the sides.
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
This is common among HD channels. Even though it may be an HD channel, the program you are watching on that channel had to be produced in HD in order for you to see the full picture. There is nothing wrong with your TV or cable provider. Its just that the show or program had to be produced in high-def for it to show up full screen. Hope this helps.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
normal, stretch and Zoom are not HD features as per say, but mearly functions of your tv for diffrent picture formats like widescreen and 4:3. HD (high definition) is supposed to make the picture quality and crispness/sharpness hughly betetr with more detail.
you need a HD ready tv to actually view the HD channels in all there glory.
most TV's no matter now big have only 360 lines for the picture. dvd is 580 but HD needs i think it was 1080 lines, so a normal TV just dosnt have that!
