The other night, I was at a bar watching the Lions/Patriots game in glorious stretched SD. But when CBS would do network news updates on the hurricane before getting back to the game, the picture would jump to 16:9 letterbox. Last I heard, CBS had no interest in AFD, but that was a while ago. So is CBS looking to move to 16:9 like Fox and ESPN have?
CBS using AFD for news? 16:9 coming?
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What's up with Bars/Restaurants and their continued use of stretchovision?
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Yeah, I was in a restaurant the other day and saw the typical letterboxed SD CNN stretched to 16:9... Can't an employee look at that, see that it looks horrible, and then press the aspect ratio button a couple of times?
Originally Posted by McDonoughDawg  What's up with Bars/Restaurants and their continued use of stretchovision? |
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I doubt they:
1. Notice
2. Care
3. Know how to fix it
| Originally Posted by jonathan_little Yeah, I was in a restaurant the other day and saw the typical letterboxed SD CNN stretched to 16:9... Can't an employee look at that, see that it looks horrible, and then press the aspect ratio button a couple of times? |
1. Notice
2. Care
3. Know how to fix it
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If I had to work at a bar for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and only had some ugly badly configured HDTV to look at I'd take the time to fix it.
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It probably looks exactly the same as their TV at home.
| Originally Posted by scorpiontail60 If I had to work at a bar for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and only had some ugly badly configured HDTV to look at I'd take the time to fix it. |
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Do you know if they going 16:9 for the other shows and sports?
Do you know if they going 16:9 for the other shows and sports?
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You mean to 4:3?
If he does, he'd better hope it's not a plasma, and it doesn't stay that way too awful long.
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You mean to 4:3?
If he does, he'd better hope it's not a plasma, and it doesn't stay that way too awful long.
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CBS is always 16:9, full screen, with no distortion OTA in our market area whenever a game is on.
CBS is always 16:9, full screen, with no distortion OTA in our market area whenever a game is on.
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If a station only provides a HD signal, and the cable company supplies that HD signal as a HD signal, the cable company can convert the HD to SD for those without HD displays. Happens all the time.
| Originally Posted by walford A cable company is not allowed to down scale the primary HD channel from a local broadcaster. Some cable companies, such as mine, multicast an analog SD versiion of a local HD channel they also broadcast digitaly. |
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I don't know where you got this notion from, but like foxeng says, it happens all the time. I guarantee you that every single cable system in the country does it.
| Originally Posted by walford A cable company is not allowed to down scale the primary HD channel from a local broadcaster. |
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Don't have the $10 for HD. I do get amused at restaurants that spend the money on HDTV only to continue to show SD content. Why bother upgrading the TV. Just keep the old SDTV. Spend $500, $600 perhaps more PER TV. Might have 4 or more TVs but don't have $120 a year for HD programming?
| Originally Posted by McDonoughDawg What's up with Bars/Restaurants and their continued use of stretchovision? |
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I'm only familiar with DirecTV, but for them it's simply $25 extra per month. Doesn't matter how many receivers or what package you have. It's just $25 more to get HD service.
| Originally Posted by Ratman I believe bar/restaurant/public facilities are charged more for services. |
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Ok. And people pay money for that service?
| Originally Posted by Jeremy W I'm talking about the downconverted SD channel provided by the local cable company. |
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