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HD enthusiasts crying foul over crunched signals.....

Posted by kootenay on April 22, 2008 at 15:27:34:
In Brent Swansonâ€™s basement home theater, there should be nothing drab about â€œBattlestar Galactica.â€ Heâ€™s got a high-end projector that beams the picture onto a wall painted like a silver screen, and speakers loom in the corners, flanking two big subwoofers.

Yet when he tuned in Sci Fi HD for a recent episode filmed in high definition, the image was soft and the darkest parts broke up into large blocks with no definition. Explosions, he said, were just dull.

â€œIt kind of looked like they took the standard definition and just blew it up,â€ said Swanson, a 33-year-old graphic designer and videographer who subscribes to Comcast Corp.â€™s TV service. â€œI couldnâ€™t really tell if what I was seeing was really better than what I saw on regular television.â€

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