Nbc Nightly News has fallen into the stanidg up gimmick

I usually watch Abc and BBC, but I was flipping tonight, and The presenter dude was standing up. ug. And it was on a very ugly CSO background. Also, the ABC Hedline titles are much less dramatic, whilst NBC is all "I'm the best, so shut up" tone of voice

NBC was doing the standing up gimmick, long before it ever became a gimmick over here. They were one of the first, if not the first, to do standing up news. Tom Brokaw used to do it a lot.

No, but today, it was on a cheesey badly done cso. they even had green outlines around the guy, from bad keying.

I think NBC started broadcasting in HD recently, they were talking about it. So that might be why it looked like poor chromakey because you're not watching it in HD. And yes, Tom basically started thee whole standing up thing.

NBC, ABC, CBS and PBS have been broadcasting SOME shows in HD since the late 90s - the first HD in the US launched in 1998 (when ONDigital launched in the UK)

Fox was the last to go HD a couple of years ago.

Most scripted drama (apart from quite a few daytime soaps) and comedy is now originated in HD 16:9 - and a reasonable amount of sports and entertainment is also HD.

HOWEVER - Good Morning America is the only networked News show to be originated in HD. NBC still originate all their news in 4:3 standard def, as do CBS. ABC's main news is still 4:3 SD as well - apart from GMA.

NBC are likely to move Today to HD later this year I believe - the main nightly news bulletins are still SD.

(If anything watching an HD bulletin downconverted to SD will deliver better picture quality for SD viewers than one shot in SD, not worse. An HD chromakey should look very good if done well and downconverted.)

There ARE local news operations running in HD as well - but they aren't the networked shows.