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

Posted by clarkjohnsen on May 8, 2008 at 08:32:39:
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