^ That leads me to repeat a point I made earlier. I have had 3 STBs. one Dish TV, One standard TS and one HD TS STB
I convinced and spammed my parents into buying a 40" LCD. Now this is equivalent to 30" in 4:3 format. My old CRT is 29" and definitely gives a better picture quality and not to mention awesome Sound, Sony Wega
My initial plan to fix this TV. I went ahead and got the HD STB for even 2 channels was better than none. Early adopters do indeed look like fools but without early adopters there would be "NO" late adopters.
Next step was to invest in an expensive upscaler to convert the SD channels to HD ones. psuedo HD in this form sucks but not as much as the stock SD channels on a HDTV.
I later saw TS upscaling a few programs but then it sucked since it was 4:3 stretched to 16:9 which made even Kareena in size zero look phat. I dropped the idea. After a lot of adjusting I got the full HD pics to fit into the 4:3 form.
Later TS added 5 star channels in HD.
I know its a bad thing to misguide people. They are not lying when they say its HD since it has been properly upscaled. They are just not being honest.
And trust me a HD setop gives much better SD picture quality than the SD STB itself. Like I said I have two STBs on an active subscription to test the same.