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I picked up this quote from the alt.tv.tech.hdtv newsgroup...
"I heard that one of the most effective ways to get a station to change was
to show a captured pic of the "fat-vision" to on-air talent (like news
anchors)...they quickly told the station to fix it. Vanity is our ally in
the war against aspect ratio distortion.
"
Currently, my STB does not have a capability to take stretched 4:3 material back to it's original aspect ratio. And sure, I have the option to watch ESPN on their regular SD channel in 4:3, however the picture quality is pretty bad compared to the up-converted HD signal on ESPN-HD.
Since some of us in this forum have the ability to capture and possibly at least one of us who may have email contact to send that capture to more than one of ESPN's talent, the results could be OAR on SD material.
Possible...that is if ESPN-HD has the money it takes to employ that extra someone to sit there and flip the switch.
"I heard that one of the most effective ways to get a station to change was
to show a captured pic of the "fat-vision" to on-air talent (like news
anchors)...they quickly told the station to fix it. Vanity is our ally in
the war against aspect ratio distortion.
Currently, my STB does not have a capability to take stretched 4:3 material back to it's original aspect ratio. And sure, I have the option to watch ESPN on their regular SD channel in 4:3, however the picture quality is pretty bad compared to the up-converted HD signal on ESPN-HD.
Since some of us in this forum have the ability to capture and possibly at least one of us who may have email contact to send that capture to more than one of ESPN's talent, the results could be OAR on SD material.
Possible...that is if ESPN-HD has the money it takes to employ that extra someone to sit there and flip the switch.