I received an email earlier this week from my cable provider. Apparently they are starting a new service called Auto HD. What this means is that whenever I tune my TV to a standard television station that also comes in an HD version my TV will automatically start showing me the HD version of the channel.
Pretty cool.
Of course, I’m assuming that if we didn’t subscribe to HD channels this service wouldn’t work for us.
The only problem that I can see with this service is that sometimes I chose to tune to a non HD station on purpose. Say when I’m watching an older show … perhaps a comedy from the 70’s or something? These shows weren’t filmed in HD and they don’t look all that great on my big screen to begin with so why would I want to watch them on an HD channel? LOL I already wish that for most shows filmed in HD that all the actors would use a good blackhead remover but the old shows are even worse.
Anyway … I don’t know if my cable provider is ahead of the game or behind. Does your cable provider offer auto HD too?
If you have a HD then it may be worth to buy a package with HD channels, but without the proper TV i don’t see the use.
If subscribers pay the extra money , they are given separate HD channels here.
Hey Jean-Luc, yes we are HD subscribers so we have separate HD channels, but of course we still have access to all the regular standard channels. My husband will still pick a non-hd channel to watch something like the news just out of habit so it’s nice that our cable service detects this and automatically shows an hd version of the channel if it’s available. So that’s cool.
I just signed up for Direct Tv and I don’t think they have auto tuning, well at least I don’t really care. like you said, If your going to watch an older film and it is converted to HD, it really doesn’t look that great. I honestly am not a huge fan of HD movies (except for action) because It really looks like it is so real the actors look to staged. You know what I mean?