Re: Hi-Def not always full-screen ?

On Wed, 7 May 2008 04:27:32 -0400 TheWebJunkie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
| FakeAddress@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Ed) posted:
| 
|>> "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."
| 
| phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 responded:
| 
|> "Digital TV does not imply it must be high definition. 
|>While digital is a requirement for high definition,
|> there are other things that can be done with digital. 
|>Many stations have chosen to transmit multiple 
|>programming streams instead. A lot of PBS stations 
|>have chosen to do so. Maybe they feel it is of more 
|>value to the community to offer a greater choice 
|>of programming than to make one program look 
|>better and have less of a choice."
| 
| But Ed said that he *knows* PBS is broadcasting in high-def, so it's
| just the *opposite* of what you said.  By wasting high-definition
| bandwidth on a standard-definition picture, PBS gives neither high
| definition *nor* the additional programming which would otherwise fit
| into that signal.

Then they have designated a specific channel to transmit in high
definition
mode, but some of the programming is not (yet) available in high
definition.

Some people are just too fussy.  More HD programming will be coming as
more
and more production switches over.  But most of the old programs that are
in
SD now will stay in SD.

They played black & white programs back when the TV stations had already
converted over to color, and even after I had a color TV.  It was no big
deal.  What would people have wanted?  For them to be colorized?

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