[opendtv] Re: Learning From the Veterans - local news in HD

  • From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:14:17 -0400
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
Unfortunately, it is the viewer with the new 16:9 HD display that suffers with the throw away areas on the sides of the 4:3 "safe area." So rather that encouraging people to upgrade, the new HD viewer gets a sharper picture with mostly useless content on the sides, and there is the very real issue that new information entering the sides of the frame appear at different times on 4:3 and 16:9 displays.
This in no more obvious than when watching sports in 16:9. The graphics are always placed within the 4:3 safe area because there are still too many cable systems taking a center cut down conversion for the SD channel.
This will eventually change, and the change has already begun. Those of us eeeevil conservatives who watch Fox News on television will know that they recently started broadcasting all of their programming in letterbox format on SD channels. Commercials, however, are still full screen height 4:3.
John 


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