doubleofive said:

Not on topic completely, but Gaff will understand:

http://doubleofive.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/aspect-ratios-a-primer/

The rant I mentioned a post ago has become a reality!

I totally agree with everything you said in your rant. I remember one time a local tv station was show some three stooges shorts. As you know, they are all 4:3. They stretched the image on their HD channel. But it gets even worse. We still have some standard TVs in the house. I turned on the standard version of that station. Guess what they did? They showed the image they were showing their HD channel but the sides cut off! That's right, they took a 4:3 image, stretched it to 16:9 proportions, and cut the sides off to make it 4:3 again. That, is the definition of insanity.