Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Full circle

2015-09-12 Thread Bob Jersey
Mark Jeffries, to David Lynch: > > On the other hand, WFLD only runs local commercials and syndicated shows > made in SD in 4:3--everything else is in 16:9. > > The eccentric part I've noticed with NBC is that all of their scripted > programming and ads are in 16:9--news and reality are in 4:3.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Full circle

2015-09-11 Thread Mark Jeffries
On the other hand, WFLD only runs local commercials and syndicated shows made in SD in 4:3--everything else is in 16:9. The eccentric part I've noticed with NBC is that all of their scripted programming and ads are in 16:9--news and reality are in 4:3. Haven't really checked on sports lately.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Full circle

2015-09-02 Thread Adam Bowie
I would imagine that somebody somewhere has done some research and determined that x% of households now watch on widescreen televisions (or at least TV's that are usually switched into widescreen mode), where "x" is a large number that's fairly close to 100. Can you still buy 4:3 TVs? Rear

[TV orNotTV] Re: Full circle

2015-09-02 Thread JW
> Actually, it's been that way on Fox for years - probably since the DTV > transition in 2009, or at least not long afterwards. I have a cathode ray > TV, and I always have to switch to my HD DVR in order to see the score when > I watch games on Fox. For the last few years, just enough of the Fox

[TV orNotTV] Re: Full circle

2015-09-02 Thread Bob Jersey
The excuse (which came from the electronics industry, not programming producers or providers) is that HD sets are as affordable now, as CRT sets were in the 70s. B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV

[TV orNotTV] Re: Full circle

2015-09-01 Thread Diner
On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 5:54:11 PM UTC-4, JW wrote: > > While flipping past the football game on Fox Sunday afternoon, I noticed > that the bug with the score and time remaining was no longer visible in SD. > (When I switched to letterbox to check, it was up in the corner, unreadable >