Lightforms said:
yup, it is, you can't change the aspect ratio on it. The maloofs have been broadcasting it on HD on 31 and 10 this way the past few seasons, if you can get the HD station. You can definately tell if it isn't HD. (blurry little heads running around, with little detail.)
I heard the comcast station is only broadcasting home games on HD, but this isn't though comcast.
Can you even get "true HD" through comcast cable?
Sure you can. I am getting ABC,CBS,NBC,WB,PBS,FOX,INHD1&2,ESPN-HD,and all the movie channels in HD through Comcast, plus a dual tuner HD DVR for $10 a month.
It is much harder to do away games in HD. Not even Mark Cuban does it and he owns his own HD company. It takes a lot more resources to do it. Since the digital version of news 10 is simulcasting whatever is on the regular news 10 channel, chances are that the picture will look better on digital one since it gets upconverted and enhanced. Not sure what news10 does when they are not showing an HD programming on their digital channel, but most likelely you will se black bars on each side. If you are seeing those bars than the progrem is not in HD. Some stations choose to stretch the picture (or slightly zoom in on the picture) to fill up the screen so people don't complain about bur in . If this is the case, your screen will be filled out, but you are not really seeing HD picture.
I asked some Sacramento people around on hdtv forums if the game was in HD last night and they confirmed it was not.