Published scoops - Channel News

National Geographic Channel will present the The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, a two-hour documentary which recreates the events surrounding JFK’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. The documentary will premiere Nov. 23, 2009 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, in both standard and high-definition (HD).

So, I was tossing and turning a little over a week ago at around 4 a.m. Not sure why, but sleep was not coming easy for me so I turned on the television to try and lull myself into lullaby-land. This after counting at least a half dozen flocks of sheep.

Anyways, here it goes. How many years does it take worthless channels like Vh1HD and MHD etc.. to finally get the clue and produce HD programming?? It seems everything they show is in a widescreen 185 aspect ratio, so obviously it was shot with an HD camera, but they compress it and downgrade it to SD into the the center of the HD channel and make it look like a SD channel even though it is on their HD channel?

THX 1138 directed by George Lucas looked surprisingly well in high-definition (HD) on Friday night. The 1971 science fiction film was the first feature-length film directed by George Lucas. Now considered by some to be a “cult classic,” it was remastered and released on DVD in 2004. HDNet presented the film in letterbox format to preserve the 2.40:1 aspect ratio.

NBC Universal’s Summer Olympic Games coverage to be carried on FiOS TV, V CAST, broadband; FiOS TV Adds Bravo HD, CNBC+ HD, USA Network HD, Sci Fi HD.

Most of them are variants of HBO or Starz, but they will bring the Dish total to more than 100. Perhaps more importantly, Dish has announced that it will begin selling packages of ONLY high-definition channels. If you don't want to pay for a bunch of fuzzy channels you never watch anyway, you won't have to.

Cablevision this morning contacted me to note that the cable company is bringing 15 additional high-definition channels to their iO TV digital cable lineup. According to the company, these new additions will launch over a five-day period starting July 28 and will be available across Cablevision’s entire service area by August 1. The additions bring Cablevision's total HD channel lineup to 60 channels.