[mythtv-users] Is Wider better?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/01/2007 08:11 PM, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> While anamorphic broadcast is possible, I don't know if it exists in
> NTSC countries; I certainly haven't seen it. I have seen many
> letterboxed programs on NTSC and ATSC 480i. Are you saying that MythTV
> would detect an anamorphic broadcast and display it correctly? MythDVD
> does display both 4:3 and 16:9 from the 720x480 DVD video, but that's
> part of the DVD spec and encoded in the MPEG stream. 

WSS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen_signaling ) is supported 
by IvyTV in areas that use WSS.  TTBOMK, the US is not one of those 
areas (although WSS can be used with NTSC or PAL).

Mike