FX in HD?

**11-20-07, 09:48 AM**

Does anyone know if and when the FX network is going to join the HD community? To my knowledge it's not available anywhere in HD...

**Sonnie** · **11-20-07, 12:10 PM**

It is currently available on DirecTV and will be added to Dish Network supposedly first of next year.

**11-20-07, 12:14 PM**

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It is currently available on DirecTV and will be added to Dish Network supposedly first of next year.

Thanks Sonnie, isn't a lot of the original programming still not in HD/5.1 (e.g. Damages, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Nip/Tuck)? I'm thinking of dropping the cable for satellite although it means I'll have to get out my chainsaw to get rid of a few offending trees

**Sonnie** · **11-20-07, 12:38 PM**

I haven't seen any of the DirecTV programming, but generally if it was filmed in HD, it will be shown in HD. There are some shows/movies that are stretched on some of the recently added HD channels on Dish... like TBS. TNN has gotten much better about not stretching.

**11-20-07, 12:43 PM**

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Sonnie wrote:

I haven't seen any of the DirecTV programming, but generally if it was filmed in HD, it will be shown in HD. There are some shows/movies that are stretched on some of the recently added HD channels on Dish... like TBS. TNN has gotten much better about not stretching.

I have cable and hence have only a proportion of the HD content that DirecTV has, but A&E, TBS (like you mentioned), and several others have a lot of non 16X9 content or elect to stretch the content which many times is unwatchable I think...

**Sonnie** · **11-20-07, 01:04 PM**

Absolutely... I will turn the channel when it's stretched. They should use black bars instead of stretching.

**11-21-07, 01:37 PM**

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Absolutely... I will turn the channel when it's stretched. They should use black bars instead of stretching.

Me as well...also, I can't understand why TBS HD can't show The Office in syndication in HD, it's letterboxed. Is there a inter-network issue that prevents them from showing it in non-letterboxed HD like NBC?

**Sonnie** · **11-21-07, 05:01 PM**

This has to be the case... although Law & Order is NBC (and USA) and they show it in non-letterboxed HD on TNT. Isn't TNT part of TBS... or TBN... whatever?

**11-22-07, 02:40 AM**

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This has to be the case... although Law & Order is NBC (and USA) and they show it in non-letterboxed HD on TNT. Isn't TNT part of TBS... or TBN... whatever?

If there's a T in there it probably means Ted has his grubby little hands in there somewhere...

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