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    RLB
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    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8911210&&#post8911210

    HDTV Notebook
    Versus to Offer High-Def Channel in January
    By John Consoli Media Week Nov. 15, 2006

    Comcast-owned cable network Versus is launching a high-definition
    channel in January 2007 that will offer golf programming from
    Comcast's Golf Channel from noon to 7 p.m. and programming from
    Versus from 7 p.m. to noon. Cable operators who carry both Versus
    and the Golf Channel will be offered the new high-definition
    channel for free. Initially, the channel will be carried on all
    Comcast systems and a deal has been done with DirecTV.

    The new channel will offer all National Hockey League games
    carried by Versus in high definition. The games currently do
    not air on Versus in high definition and the NHL game of the
    week on Versus airs in high definition on INHD through an
    agreement with Versus.

    The programming airing on the new HD channel will air
    simultaneously on either the Golf Channel or Versus. From
    the Golf Channel, it will include live golf tournament
    coverage, including the PGA, while, in addition to hockey,
    programming from Versus offered in HD will include boxing,
    professional bull riding, and assorted hunting and fishing shows.

    Plans now call for the Tour de France to be upconverted to
    high definition to air on the new channel, but negotiations
    are planned to try to get a pure high-definition feed.

    http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/re...t_id=1003408626

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  2. alan_atwood
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    RLB said:

    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8911210&&#post8911210

    HDTV Notebook
    Versus to Offer High-Def Channel in January
    By John Consoli Media Week Nov. 15, 2006

    ........Plans now call for the Tour de France to be upconverted to
    high definition to air on the new channel, but negotiations
    are planned to try to get a pure high-definition feed.

    http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/re...t_id=1003408626

    I'll believe it when I see it. I won't be surprised if there's no TdF,
    high def or standard def.

    Alan

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  3. Chris
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    If there is a TDF and in HD then I can imagine Phil will need even longer
    set of appologies for the signal break-up.

    "alan_atwood" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    RLB said:

    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8911210&&#post8911210

    HDTV Notebook
    Versus to Offer High-Def Channel in January
    By John Consoli Media Week Nov. 15, 2006

    ........Plans now call for the Tour de France to be upconverted to
    high definition to air on the new channel, but negotiations
    are planned to try to get a pure high-definition feed.

    http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/re...t_id=1003408626

    I'll believe it when I see it. I won't be surprised if there's no TdF,
    high def or standard def.

    Alan

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  4. Davey Crockett
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    Chris said:

    If there is a TDF and in HD then I can imagine Phil will need even longer
    set of appologies for the signal break-up.

    subtle, very subtle

    --
    Davey Crockett

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  5. Bleet Norf
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    Quoted message said:

    Plans now call for the Tour de France to be upconverted to
    high definition to air on the new channel, but negotiations
    are planned to try to get a pure high-definition feed.

    Hopefully they don't really mean "up-converted". That would be simply
    taking the standard def signal and converting to HDTV... and it looks
    really bad when you do that. I'll just assume the reporter got his
    signals crossed 😉

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  6. Ryan Cousineau
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    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Bleet Norf said:
    Quoted message said:

    Plans now call for the Tour de France to be upconverted to
    high definition to air on the new channel, but negotiations
    are planned to try to get a pure high-definition feed.

    Hopefully they don't really mean "up-converted". That would be simply
    taking the standard def signal and converting to HDTV... and it looks
    really bad when you do that. I'll just assume the reporter got his
    signals crossed 😉

    The one thing that makes that halfway worthwhile is that upconverting is
    that PAL sources have a bit more resolution than NTSC ones. A proper
    conversion would preserve the additional data, and mean that it would be
    the best SD signal you had ever seen.

    --
    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
    "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
    to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

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  7. Davey Crockett
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    Ryan Cousineau said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Bleet Norf said:
    Quoted message said:

    Plans now call for the Tour de France to be upconverted to
    high definition to air on the new channel, but negotiations
    are planned to try to get a pure high-definition feed.

    Hopefully they don't really mean "up-converted". That would be simply
    taking the standard def signal and converting to HDTV... and it looks
    really bad when you do that. I'll just assume the reporter got his
    signals crossed 😉

    The one thing that makes that halfway worthwhile is that upconverting is
    that PAL sources have a bit more resolution than NTSC ones. A proper
    conversion would preserve the additional data, and mean that it would be
    the best SD signal you had ever seen.

    --
    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
    "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
    to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

    You are right about PAL in HD, the picture here is awesome and loses
    only about 1 per cent if you record it to watch later.

    Davey's decoder here has a built in hard drive, another modern marvel,
    which is also accessible from the 'puter, or the Tele remote,
    primarily for storage, but which makes all sorts of wonderful things
    possible, most of which he has yet to experiment with since he's too
    busy with other stuff right now, like sending Christmas cards to
    Political Prisoners around the World, etc.

    But after almost 30 years of TV less life, having rented, begged,
    borrowed or otherwise got ahold of a Tele for the major bike races in
    the past, Davey is glad he took the opportunity to catch up on technology

    This extravagence was amply justified when there was an exemplary
    performance of Die Fledermaus notwithstanding it having been marred by
    being subtitled by the Ruskie channel that aired it

    --
    Le vent à Dos
    Davey Crockett [No 4Q to reply]
    "The course of true love never did run smooth"
    -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, I.1

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