Posted by Need A. Life on 12/07/06 02:48

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:46:10 GMT, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net>
wrote:

>
>On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:35:43 -0800, Walter Traprock
><wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Folks, you should know, there's HDTV in standard aspect ratio!
>>
>>There's no need for the distortion-vision of widescreen TVs!
>>There's no need for bright gray bars to "warn" you that you're
>>watching material in the "wrong" aspect ratio.
>
>But for some reason when you watch regular TV shows in HDTVs at
>restaurants and stores, it's almost always distorted.

Every station in my area that runs a 16x9 AR crops and stretches ALL
4x3 content. Maybe that's why you're seeing it that way. I asked a
friend of mine in the broadcast industry why they do this and he told
me that they want their content to "look" wide-screen, even if it's
not. Personally, I'd rather they broadcast unaltered 4x3 and let ME
decide how I want to watch it. I can crop and stretch 4x3 if I want
to, but I can't restore the missing cropped top and bottom!

DSF

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