HBO Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====HBO HD==== [[File:HBO HD.png|right|220x220px]] HBO HD (originally called HBO HDTV from March 1999 until April 2006) is a [[High-definition television|high definition]] simulcast feed of HBO that broadcasts in the [[1080i]] resolution format.<ref name="hbohd">{{cite web|title=HBO: About: Frequently Asked Questions: HBO HD|url=http://www.hbo.com/about/faqs/products/hbo-hd.html|website=HBO|publisher=Home Box Office, Inc. (Time Warner)|access-date=April 3, 2016}}</ref> HBO maintains high definition simulcast feeds of its main channel and all six multiplex channels. HBO HD is available on all major cable television providers including, among others, Charter Communications (including systems once owned by former HBO sister company Time Warner Cable); Comcast Xfinity (which, in 2016, began downconverting HBO, Cinemax and other cable channels transmitting in 1080i to [[720p]]60);<ref>{{cite web|title=1080i Channels are Being Changed to 720p60 Channels|url=http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Non-X1-Service/1080i-channels-are-being-changed-to-720p60-channels/m-p/2783308#M183323|access-date=April 1, 2018|archive-date=December 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217014057/http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Non-X1-Service/1080i-channels-are-being-changed-to-720p60-channels/m-p/2783308#M183323|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cox Communications and [[Optimum]]; as well as [[DirecTV]]; [[AT&T U-verse]]; and [[Verizon FiOS]]. From the 2008 rollout of HD simulcasts for the HBO multiplex feeds until the mid-2010s, the majority of pay television providers that carried HBO HD generally offered only the main channel in high definition, with HD carriage of the multiplex channels varying by market. {{As of|2020}}, most providers transmit all seven HBO multiplex channels in HD, either on a dedicated HD channel tier separate from their SD assignments or as hybrid SD/HD feeds. Home Box Office, Inc. announced plans to launch a high-definition simulcast feed on June 12, 1997, with initial plans for a rollout to television providers as early as the Summer of 1998, when electronics manufacturers planned to begin retailing their initial line of HD-capable television sets.<ref name="vty-hbohdsetslaunch">{{cite web|title=HBO plans high-def startup by 1998|url=https://variety.com/1997/tv/news/hbo-plans-high-def-startup-by-1998-1116680165/|author=John Dempsey|periodical=Variety|date=June 12, 1997|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref> HBO began transmitting a high definition simulcast feed on March 6, 1999, becoming the first American cable television network to begin simulcast their programming in the format. For the first 23 months of its existence, the HD feed only transmitted theatrical films from the network's programming suppliers (initially accounting for about 45% of its available feature film output, expanding to around 60% by early 2001) and HBO's in-house original movies in the format, as existing widescreen prints of those films were already scalable in the 16:9 widescreen [[Aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio]] and could readily be upconverted to HD resolution.<ref name="vty-hbohdsetslaunch"/><ref name="HBO HD">{{cite web|title=HBO ready to go with HDTV|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53675563.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508063136/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53675563.html|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|date=January 25, 1999|access-date=March 2, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 8, 2013}}</ref> Original programming began to be made available in HD on January 14, 2001, when the network commenced a 13-week Sunday "encore" presentation of the second season of ''[[The Sopranos]]'' in remastered 1080i HD. (HBO had been requiring the producers of its original series to film their episodes in widescreen—subsequently downconverted for the standard definition feed—to fit [[Aspect ratio (image)#4:3 stamdard|4:3]] television screens since 1996, to future-proof them for remastering in HD.) The third-season premiere of the mob drama, "[[Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood]]", on March 4 was the first first-run episode of an HBO series to be transmitted in high-definition from its initial telecast, with all subsequent episodes being delivered to HBO exclusively on HD videotape (and downconverted for the main standard-definition feed). Bob Zitter, then the network's Senior Vice President of Technology Operations, disclosed to ''[[Multichannel News]]'' in January 2001 that HBO elected to delay offering its original series in high definition until there was both sustainable consumer penetration of high-definition television sets and wide accessibility of HDTV equipment on the retail market.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Sopranos Hit Hi-Def|url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/sopranos-hit-hi-def-95869|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|date=January 7, 2001|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=HBOs Sopranos Goes High-Definition|url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/hbos-sopranos-goes-high-definition-133506|author=Monica Hogan|periodical=Multichannel News|date=January 7, 2001|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref> Sports telecasts were upgraded to HD on September 25, 2004, with an ''HBO World Championship Boxing'' fight card headlined by [[Roy Jones Jr.]] and [[Glen Johnson (boxer)|Glen Johnson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=HBO Going All-HD for Boxing|url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/hbo-going-all-hd-boxing-337708|author=R. Thomas Umstead|periodical=Multichannel News|date=September 12, 2004|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref> HD programming can also be broadcast in [[Dolby Digital|Dolby Digital 5.1]]. The network began transmitting its six multiplex channels in high definition on September 1, 2008, when DirecTV began offering HD simulcast feeds of HBO2, HBO Family, HBO Signature, and HBO Latino.<ref>{{cite web|title=All HBO, Cinemax channels to be in HD|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/all-hbo-cinemax-channels-be-138691|author=Kimberly Nordyke|agency=Associated Press| periodical=The Hollywood Reporter|date=June 13, 2007|access-date=May 12, 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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