On 5/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich West</b> <<a href="mailto:Rich.West@wesmo.com">Rich.West@wesmo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Steve Hodge wrote:<br>> SD does not mean 4:3 only. It is perfectly possible to receive and<br>> record widescreen SD. I don't know if widescreen SD is available in<br>> the US, but it certainly is in other countries.
<br><br>Unfortunately, here in the US, broadcast content is via NTSC, which is<br>only 480i 4:3 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDTV">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDTV</a>,<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC</a>). TV shows recorded in widescreen<br>format get crammed in to a 4:3 transmission, giving us the added joy of<br>black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. :(</blockquote><div><br>
So the broadcasters letterbox all widescreen SD content in the US? Over here in NZ we've currently got the opposite problem: one of the stations is broadcasting everything widescreen (at least on DVB-S) and pillarboxing 4:3 content. Also very annoying.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My bad, though.. Since Peter already has MythTV running and recording<br>stuff, I took a guess that "wide format" meant an HD 16:9 signal, and,
<br>if that is the case, then that's where what I said previously comes in<br>to play. The PVR-350 won't record HD content unless it is "down<br>converted" to the equivalent of SD content.<br></blockquote>
</div><br>Yes, no question about that.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>