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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
Bell is HD. Thats interesting, Mad Men takes up the whole screen and comes in fine. I can't tell the difference. My son watches a tonne of Thomas the Tank Engine which is all in SD. Other than that I havn't watched anything else on Netflix.
Edit:
Found this article. I had no idea. I'll have to watch something else on Netflix to compare.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/18703...a_problem.html
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Netflix has a lot of stuff that, even though standard definition, comes through in at 16x9 aspect ratio. Also, keep in mind that cable/satellite standard def channels are quite heavily compressed. In my experience, SD on Netflix is better than SD on cable.
While we're talking SD and HD, I'm thinking that Netflix should provide an option to stream a show in SD even if it is available in HD (for devices that are HD-capable). That would give people a little more control while trying to manage their new, lower caps. The web site interface lets you turn off HD.
Hockey in HD is unquestionably better than SD, but if a TV show or movie is available in SD 16x9, I'd be tempted to use it over HD. Not exactly progress, but given the relative good quality of some SD stuff over Netflix, it might be useful to some.