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anyone have trouble with AMC HiDEF i.e. Bad HD Broadcasting
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Wondering with my American friends here  who enjoy HD feeds either thru Cable or Dish-  I was curious to know how your AMC HD feeds are?  This network who brings you Madmen in Hidef  are they true 16x9 presentations ? or are they upconverted SD broadcasts that are squeezed?

How about their movies such as Aliens or others Big budget titles?  stretched and upconverted SD broadcasting .??
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I'm on DirecTV and we don't get AMC in HD.  What I get is a non-anamorphic version of Mad Men (widescreen, but black bars on all four sides).  It sucks.  But I know I'll be getting the Blu-rays next summer, so it's not the end of the world.  Next year I may just skip it altogether (unless we get AMC HD).  It's better not waiting a week between episodes anyway.
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AMC HD is in HD not an upconversion of their SD broadcast.  Mad Men looks great in HD, can't wait to see the new version of The Prisoner in HD on AMC.
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AMC Canada is only feeding true HD for only so many hours a week, here in Canada. the rest of the week we get stretchovision and upconverted SD signals..  Shaw cable swears up and down that they only broadcast  what is provided and AMC (canada) is being very stingy on their bandwidth  for HD broadcast ..

There is a blog about it here
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