[BC] Re: HDTV, IBOC and the dopy general public

[Kevin Tekel]

Willie wrote:
> I have made this change because of the incredibly stupid, outrageous way
> HDTV (at least the 18:9 monitors) has apparently successfully rolled
out.
> I went to best Buy, all saw was 4:3 video being displayed in 16:9 aspect
> ratio.

Have you been in Wal-Mart recently?  At least in the stores near me, they
replaced all their in-store TV sets with widescreen flat-panel displays.  

However, Wal-Mart's in-store TV network is still distributing its content
as conventional 4:3 video (probably in analog NTSC, too).

Yup, you guessed it... all those fancy new monitors are displaying the
Wal-Mart network as 4:3 video stretched out to fill the 16:9 widescreen
aspect ratio!

I've also seen the opposite: in-store TV sets displaying widescreen video,
shrunk down to fit the regular 4:3 aspect ratio, making everyone look
skinny. Too bad most TV sets don't have a user-adjustable Vertical Height
control, because if it was broadcast that way, then everyone could have
widescreen TV without needing to buy any new equipment!




		
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