Please explain why 'AMC' channel is non-HD

[pixelthis]

Also, keep in mind that the HD logo is not always an accurate indicator. Just yesterday, I saw Heat playing on TNT. It was very obviously an upscaled stretch-o-vision job, yet the channel guide said it was HD. On the flip side, my local RSNs had a couple of baseball games on -- both of them clearly in HD, yet the channel guide did not have the HD logo showing.

I cant understand why TNT does this.
Their regular programming(leverage) and quite a few movies(WAR OF the worlds)
look amazing, its really the luck of the draw.
Most of the streachovision stuff is older, I dont think they do that with their newer stuff.
You need to watch leverage, BTW, its really good.

[kevlarus]

I cant understand why TNT does this.
Their regular programming(leverage) and quite a few movies(WAR OF the worlds)
look amazing, its really the luck of the draw.
Most of the streachovision stuff is older, I dont think they do that with their newer stuff.
You need to watch leverage, BTW, its really good.

I suspect it's due to whatever format the channel happens to have those movies/shows in. This is clear with some of the real old Law & Order episodes (TNT?), or ST:TNG (Next Generation) that's currently being run on BBC America. Looked at it once, definitely using down-rezed source and not HD, on their HD channel. I could tell the difference in a snap.