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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
EQC @ Mar 10th 2008 7:09PM
sorry if this is a double post...I think something went wrong the first time and I don't see it on the site.
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Non-HD channels should just be sent out in widescreen 480p. DVD quality. If people are happy with upscaled DVD's on their HDTV's, then such a signal from the cable company could be upgraded just as easily.
On the other hand, a pillarboxed 4:3 480i signal just looks terrible on an HDTV and makes me sad. Those zoom and stretch modes to make the image fill the screen are even worse, and make me angry.
Mr. E @ Mar 10th 2008 8:03PM
The problem is that there's a HUGE catalog of 4:3 programming already stored and still being created, so we just have to deal with that. Heck, even one of my favorite shows, The Wire on HBO is still being created in SD 4:3. I'd rather see pillarboxed 4:3 for content that originated as 4:3 rather than the terrible stretch-o-vision that we get on some of our "HD" channels (TBS? Grrrr.)
Keep everything in the original aspect ratio, PLEASE. If I wanted my picture distorted, I'd seek out a TV that would let me do that to the signal myself.
why not the LS2/LS7? @ Mar 10th 2008 9:16PM
Agreeing with Mr. E.
I don't want anything stretched, and if the channels stretch it, I don't have a way to unstretch it.
Especially those awful fisheye stretches.