We upgraded to HD cable this week. My friend Adam told me that Food Network HD had some of the best-looking programming of the HD channels, I’m guessing because their content is all new and taped with HD cameras.
I told Melissa and she tested it. Food Network and Food Network HD broadcast the same shows at the same time. Sure enough, flipping back and forth between them you can really see the difference. The regular Food Network channel looks out of focus compared to the sharpness of the HD broadast.
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After watching HD for a while, it’s hard to look at other stations. Some of the National Geographic stuff is awesome in HD.
I’m convinced Food Network on HD looks so good you can gain weight just looking at it.
[rq=1492340,0,blog][/rq]One Good Thing…
In some cases HD LCD televisions look blurry with non-HD content because the program content doesn’t map well to the native resolution of the HD pixels.
It would be a better comparison to watch the non-HD content on a native standard-resolution set next to the HD content on the HD set.
Just sayin…
FOr your purposes, because you have the HD television, the HD is unquestionably the higher quality of the two.
Douglas, I hadn’t heard that (that regular broadcasts can appear worse on HD sets due to resolution differences). I’ll have to try comparing the regular broadcast on HD and regular TV. I’ve definitely seen cases where an older show didn’t look very good, but I attributed that to the HD TV revealing the limitations of the original show.