> > I can't believe how fucked up HDTV is. It amazes me how I see pictures that have
> > black bars all around the picture sometimes. This is broadcast TV, not Bluray. I
> > guess at some point I will make the switch. I still have an old 27" CRT TV. I hope
> > they get this shit worked out by then!
>
> I don't know what some stations do to their content. I see it with commercials more
> than actual shows. The only thing I can think is that they have content at a lower
> resolution than their broadcast, and rather than introduce ugly artifacts by scaling
> it up, they just show it centered at the original res.
On my 3:4 TV, I'm watching 3:4 content that is broadcast on both standard and HD channels. The HD channel pillarboxes the show, and everything during that show. When a 16:9 ad comes up during it, it has been letterboxed to fit the 4:3 format of the program, putting a box around it. But not all of that ad is widescreen; the advertisers have gone ahead and pillarboxed their ad, and things start getting out of hand.
Eventually, the old channels will actually be replaced by the new ones, and maybe everything will start to fit. Given the rollout delay for HD initially, I could be dead first.
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