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You should also be aware that there are several 'resolutions' of screen and
drive to take into consideration. Almost all TV showrooms both here and in
the US, tend to have the sets running on at least an HD picture, and often a
BluRay picture. This makes them look very good at first glance. Problem is
that in normal day to day use when you get it back home, you are going to be
watching standard resolution terrestrial broadcasts on it, and on many sets,
these look pretty dreadful, and it is the reason that so many people are
disappointed with their purchase when they get it home, and think that it is
not what they saw in the store.

At least in my area (Seattle), all the mainstream over the air stations
are HD, now. (Each station has its own transmitter, so they don't have
shared "multiplexes" like in the UK). The typical situation is an
HD subchannel with the main program and one SD subchannel with some
secondary service (sports, weather, old movies, old TV show, or an
SD copy of the main signal to feed analog cable).

There's a smaller number of stations that trade selection for resolution,
running four or five SD subchannels. Christian broadcasting and
speciality stuff like the secondary channels on the other stations.

The only way you'd get stuck with standard definition on the national
networks is to still be using analog cable. (I'm not familiar with
what you get with the two (subscription only) national direct broadcast
satellite providers).

Mark Zenier
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