A & E "Strange" looking picture during Roadhouse

[diggerg56]

Earlier today we were watching Roadhouse on A & E (HD). I can only describe the picture as looking "strange." It didn't look like a movie normally does in HD. It was live looking, almost surreal.

No other channels look this way. Anyone else notice this or am I going crazy?

[loudo]

Earlier today we were watching Roadhouse on A & E (HD). I can only describe the picture as looking "strange." It didn't look like a movie normally does in HD. It was live looking, almost surreal.

No other channels look this way. Anyone else notice this or am I going crazy?
I didn't see that show, but was it possible that it was one of A&E's Stretch-O-Vision shows where they take 4x3 and stretch it to 16x9? A lot of their programs and a few other Networks (like History Channel) do that and it distorts the video and makes it look horrible.

[jdspencer]

The OP didn't describe the "strangeness" as being stretched but being maybe too vivid. A&E probably cranked up the color intensity.

[roadrunner1782]

I watched alittle bit of it earlier and it didn't really look HD to me just alittle "strange".