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When a network or a channel broadcasts a movie in "HD", what do they use for sources?

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Last week ABC had on Chronicles of Narnia, which I'd never seen. Oboy! I went, I haven't watched a network movie for decades, but now that I have HD...

Well it looked like an upconverted DVD, not too well upconverted at that. So I got to thinking: True HD means an all-new telecine conversion, right? So unless the broadcasters are playing a HD-DVD/Blu-ray, or the original film itself (unlikely), how can any broadcast achieve true HD?

My best *guess*: it doesn't.

Anyone?

clark

Follow Ups:

It ranges - Jazz Inmate 09:56:07 05/08/08 (4)
- He means true HD as apposed to upscaled SD. (nt) - Jack G 10:56:19 05/08/08 (3)
  - Thas' right. My suspicion is that a lot of it is upscaled. nt - clarkjohnsen 10:12:27 05/10/08 (2)
    - Quite a bit of it is just upscaled SD - Jack G 15:06:42 05/10/08 (1)
      - Ah... DVDs most often come in widesreen anamorphic, an easy upconvert. nt - clarkjohnsen 11:05:56 05/11/08 (0)

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