Fang Zei said:
...When I keep hearing stories about how even people with widescreen tv's don't care about everything getting stretched out and even get pissed off when someone tries to properly set it, I wonder.
Then again, the difference between anamorphic and non-anamorphic is rather insignificant when compared to the difference between sd and hd.
...When I keep hearing stories about how even people with widescreen tv's don't care about everything getting stretched out and even get pissed off when someone tries to properly set it, I wonder.
Then again, the difference between anamorphic and non-anamorphic is rather insignificant when compared to the difference between sd and hd.
What upsets me is I just got a lot more HD channels on my cable, and several of them (TNT, HGTV, Food, A&E) pre-stretch out everything that's not 16:9. TNT even labels everything "HD", even when they are 15 year old shows. With networks saying things like this:
TNT.tv said:
Why does the screen look “stretched” when I watch TNT in HD?
In an effort to present a consistent broadcast, we have decided to maintain the same aspect ratio for all HD programming. An unfortunately consequence of this is that the standard TV ratio of 4:3 is presented as 16:9. This is what “stretches” the image. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused.
Why does the screen look “stretched” when I watch TNT in HD?
In an effort to present a consistent broadcast, we have decided to maintain the same aspect ratio for all HD programming. An unfortunately consequence of this is that the standard TV ratio of 4:3 is presented as 16:9. This is what “stretches” the image. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused.
how can we expect the average viewer to understand that shows shouldn't be watched like this?! I'm always explaining to the ladies at work that things filmed in widescreen should be wide and things in fullscreen should be full, but when the networks don't even understand that, how does my argument hold water? TNT can't do it, but Disney Channel and ABC Family have the right aspect ratios? I'm disappointed.
Kind of off-topic, but strangely relevant.