Digital TV by 2009?

[andy]

I hope digital TV does in fact lead to better quality. TV stations have a way of doing everything possible to screw up the picture and sound.

I remember seeing a HD channel in Pittsburgh that was just using their NTSC feed and cutting off a little at the top and bottom of the picture so it would fill more of the 16x9 screen. In that case, the HDTV feed was actually LOWER resolution than the NTSC feed. Needless to say, it looked horrible.