Re: Hi-Def not always full-screen ?

You will find this happening on many of your digital and HD stations 
depending on how the original signal was configured and what your receiver

is doing with those signals. Even settings on your cable box or hd
receiver 
can affect the aspect of the displayed materials.
>ESPN in some markets is a great example of this happening. Sometimes the 
>pix is a full 16x9, other times it may be letter-box or cropped on both
the 
>left and right sides. Even when they switch their source of materials,
say 
>from a recorded tape from live this seems to happen. What is really a
pain 
>is when your watching one of the prgrammes that is being displayed in the

>letter-box or cropped mode then flippin ads all come in full screen.
Wish there would be a nice, easy fix for this particular situation, it
would 
cut my nuisance service calls almost 80%. Can't  call it 'Customer 
Education' any more and have the manufacturer pay for it.

"Rick Evans" <h1ELt0nNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>
>> Then, I switch over to PBS and watch, oh, Nature or Masterpiece or
>> something like that.  I know PBS is broadcasting in hi-def but the
>> image is often letter-boxed 16:9, with several inches of black space
>> all around.  Sure, I can expand it in some fa****on using the TV aspect
>> controls but then it either is distorted or else has a certain
>> fuzziness that detracts from the quality.
>>
>> It's not like this all the time - I think some PBS programs really are
>> full-screen hi-def, like I would have expected.  But it seems like the
>> ones I really want to see are smaller than the available space.
>>
>> What is going on here?  Why isn't PBS hi-def like football-game hi-def?
>
>    Whether  you see a program in HD depends on the station.
>
>    My local  PBS affiliate station is flag****p WGBH.  GBH simulcasts on
>    2.1 and 2.2. Channel  2.1 is 480i and HD progams are in letterbox.
2.2
>    is 1080i and  feeds from PBS are HD. NewsHour, Nova, Masterpiece
>    Theatre and Frontline are in HD. The do***entary Carrier was
broadcast
>    primetime in HD.
>
>    However, after  midnight  GBH letterboxes programs on both channels.
>    My understanding  is that  the station doesn't have the equipment to 
> record
>    and rebroadcast in HD. This  could change in the fall from what I've 
> been told.
>
>    OTOH, GBH also has its four subchannel 44 digital channel that shows 
> regular
>    programming World,  Create, and Kids. These are all in 480i.
>
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> Rick Evans
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