Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
So I finally got one of those Vizio HD TV's and got DirectTV to hook up a HD receiver today.

It looks great, I sat there and watched the food network for like twenty minutes just cause of how good it looked.

But annoyed about a couple of things.

1)I watch like only a certain amount of channels really. I watch ESPN, ESPN2, ComedyCentral, CNN, MSNBC, The Travel Channel, Fox Soccer Channel, Discovery and FX and TNT some maybe. And two of those I don't even get in HD, MSNBC and the Travel Channel which really should be in high def.

Ok fine, I should have looked that up beforehand, not a big deal.

But for anybody that watches ESPN HD what the hell are these bars down the side, its a nice picture but its a fucking narrow channel for how big my TV is. I just find it annoying for some reason. Is there something that can be done about this (it seemed like with sportscenter it wasn't like that), is it always like this?

Not sure where you live but i get all of those channels in HD. The 'bars' on the side of the screen mean that that current program on that channel is not currently in HD. So instead of stretching the picture to full screen and have it look not so great, it shows it like that. Just cause a channel is HD does not mean every program (or commercial for that matter) is in HD.