The answer avoids an important issue. The aspect ratio of SD vs. HD is different. This means that your already small SD screen will be made even smaller when the HD size picture is letterboxed to fit on your SD screen. I bet you won't like it.
>DirecTV stated the following when I asked them: > >"Standard, non-high-definition DIRECTV satellite equipment will not be >obsolete when the broadcast industry converts from an analog to digital >format. Because DIRECTV equipment and broadcast centers are already >digital, we must convert the current analog programming signals to >digital signals before transmitting them to our satellites. We then beam >these digital signals to your DIRECTV receiver. >Standard DIRECTV receivers are designed to work for many years to come >to provide the same high-quality standard-definition programming that >you enjoy as a DIRECTV customer today. " ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
