TNT-HD sucks!

We are soon approaching the one year anniversary (Feb 17) of DirecTV adding TNT to its HD lineup.

I've only had HD for just over two months and in that time, one channel in the currently meager DirecTV HD lineup, apparently has little idea what HD is or should look like. That channel is TNT-HD.

It looks like TNT HD only has a small handful of programming that is in actual High Def and the rest of the shows/movies (including commercials) are 4:3 shows that they've streched to fill a 16:9 screen. Just because the 16:9 screen is filled up doesn't mean it's HD. And not only that, because of the stretching the aspect ratio gets screwed up.

Saturday night they had "Deep Impact" on. It looked like complete shit! The stretch made everyone look short and wide. Pretty pathetic really.

It's not all bad though... they do have rare moment where I'm impressed... I've never seen Titanic (aired in November) look so good on a TV and the 3 Lord of the Rings movies also look really good except they filled the screen up 16x9 so it was cropping some of the image out.

My advice to TNT HD...

GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!

HIRE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY WATCH YOUR NETWORK AND MAYBE SOMEONE WILL ACTUALLY NOTICE THAT SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG WITH YOUR BROADCAST!

FYI: I just found a nice thread at AVSForum about this.