The D Stands for Disappointment
Yesterday I noticed that my ye old cable company, Time Warner, had slipped a little treat into my HD channel lineup: a shiny brand-new SciFi HD channel sandwiched between USAHD and BravoHD.
As if this sweet manna wasn’t enough, there was more to come. First, I was reminded of the New Years Day Twilight Zone marathon (which I had totally forgotten about) and, second, that Scare Tactics, the show I absolutely loved, was being brought back, starting that night! Oh joy of joys, oh dream of dreams. So what was the fly in the ointment?
Traci Morgan Introducing a Scare on Scare Tactics
The HD. Or rather, the lack thereof. The SciFi brand of HD is circa five years ago, you know, the HD that consists of nothing more than a duplicate of the SD signal, windowboxed or, worse, stretched to fill the screen. It only took a few minutes of watching a rerun of Stargate: SG1 windowboxed (and the episode was widescreen) for the curses to come flying fast and free.
On a positive note, the Twilight Zone episodes I’ve watched this afternoon are properly pillar-boxed. Maybe they’ve got a clue after all.
What do you think?