So this may be better suited for one of the other forums, but i know everybody here so i'll ask it here.

Watching Fringe last night I noticed something that was very visible to me. The quality of the video itself. The differences between watching sports in HD, films broadcast on HD, and TV shows on HD is all different, both within networks and across networks.

Fox sports was FAR sharper than Fringe was. Now, this could have been an aesthetic choice as well, but it didn't feel like one. It wasn't grainy enough to be a factor in the overall "look" of the show, and i would have thought added detail would have added to the ambiance better than the ever-so-soft muddyness.

I haven't really been keeping up-to-snuff on all the HD talk and all that, so maybe this is an already discussed issue, but this was the first time i really noticed it. Also watching the episode of the simpsons that precursored the show, it looked horrible in HD. Yet some family guy episodes i saw looked terrific. Is this just a factor of Fox's HD programming?

-k2