TNT 100% widescreen? Puhleeze, they are about 15% HD, the rest is distorted/stretched SD. The fact that someone thinks they are 100% HD points to the fact that a judgement is being made because there are no black bars (I'm NOT trying to single anyone out, I'm trying to make a generalization). By the same logic, one could distort all their signals and conclude they are seeing 100% HD on everything!
Starz runs some movies in 16:9, non-distorted SD. When one of my local channels announced their news would be in HD, they installed the camera and added black bars 2 weeks before the "official" debut. In point of fact, the debut day had them going widescreen, but they HAD been doing HD all along.
The point is that HD is about resolution, not so much aspect ratio (even though A/R is supposed to be part of the HD spec).
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