If you have Apple TV the SD/HD topic is dead. It's all HD

[punking]

This idea of SD being upcoverted to HD was argued about along time ago on the MacRumors forum a long time ago.

The only thing Apple did was upgrade 720p videos to 1080p, they certainly didn't freely upgrade SD material to HD when streaming with your AppleTV, and they still don't now.

I have a number of videos that are in SD including Adventures of Tintin. It looks like crap when streamed on my AppleTV 3. The TV says 1080p but only because that's what it's outputting, not what's going in.

I repeat it looks crap compared to the HD material on the ATV. It also buffers quicker than any of the HD material. This is the same for all the SD material on my itunes.

At no point is any of it being upgraded to HD.

So out of interest I paid $9.99 for the HD version of Tintin, and do you know what? Now it's in HD, it looks better and the buffering is consistent with an HD video.

At no point have Apple decided to generously upgrade your SD into HD otherwise everybody would just buy a load of SD videos and then purchase an ATV to get it in HD. Nonsense.