Weather Channel's HD Snow Job: "Weather Channel's HD Snow JobThe network reveals that its high-def channel will not include a real HD picture until 2008. By Phillip SwannWashington, D.C. (April 28, 2007) -- The Weather Channel has boasted this year that it will launch a new High-Definition channel this September. However, the network has now revealed that the 'HD channel' will not deliver real high-def pictures until next year."
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DIRECTV has agreed to carry The Weather Channel HD when it's launched in September. But TWC President Debora Wilson tells Multichannel News that the satellite TV service will "upconvert" the network's standard-definition feed until its HD studio is ready.
In layman's terms, upconverting is when a TV provider takes a non-HD signal and stretches it so it will fit a widescreen and appear to be in high-def.
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