[mythtv-users] 16:9 playback of 16:9 letterboxed recordings

[Mike Schiller]

Yeah, without seeing what that channel's 'True 16:9' looks like, it's
hard to be sure, but it looks like that's what is going on.

Thanks

On 2/20/07, Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 20, 2007, at 08.33, Kevin Slater wrote:
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> > It seems to me that often broadcasters do a poor job of centering and
> > maintaining aspect ratio when inserting letterbox/pillarbox bars,
> > but I
> > haven't done any real testing (nor have I had access to their source
> > material to allow proper testing).  So, I may be off my rocker (or my
> > Myth box or my TV may be improperly configured, making it look like a
> > problem in the video I receive from the broadcaster).
> >
> > What you might be seeing is broadcasters trying to 'cheat' on their
> > production of both SD and HD feeds of the same show. I saw this
> > last night on some station. While watching a show in SD, there was
> > a degree of letterboxing, but it wasn't enough to be 16:9 on the
> > display. I suspect they were just downcasting the HD 16:9 feed and
> > dropping some of either edge of the picture to mostly fit on a SD
> > 4:3 format. Hard to describe in words, but when you see it you know
> > what I mean.
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> You mean like this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14:9
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