True HD or Not?

[mikedlk]

Does anyone know if when I am receiving a 16:9 broadcast and the program has the little HDTV icon in the corner sent from let's say CBS. How do I know for sure that it is true HD and not an upconverted lesser format.

Example King of Queens on CBS/WRGB says HDTV in the corner icon. Yea it has a real good picture in 16:9 but if I compare that program to WMHT that has a lot of True HD I can really see a difference in definition between the two.

This is leading me to believe that WBRG or CBS may be up converting content and just calling it HDTV.

Shed some light please.

Mike - Shaftsbury, VT OTA HDTV using Zenith HDV420

[Skaggs]

Rather than try to type everything in here, I'll post this link so you can read up on it yourself.

The info posted in that thread seems to address your question, even though it is about FOX.

[mikedlk]

Thanks for the link Skaggs,

After reading it I am now convinced that most of the local so called HD OTA broadcast is certainly upconverted from a lesser format. It looks good, but it doesn't knock your socks off like WMHT's HD broadcasts.

I am probably ahead of the curve a little on the HDTV and I hope that as we and the broadcaters progress the trend will be toward true Hi-Def without all of the bottlenecks that seem to be in place now.

Still I have a super picture with OTA Digital Television and looks superior to DirecTV. And I don't have to pay extra for it. Free is good!

Mike - Shaftsbury, VT (Zenith HDV420, Toshiba 42H82 16:9 rear projection, and a big antenna)