[mythtv-users] OT: Aspect ratio broadcast rant

[Saul]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:08:16 -0500
Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:41 AM,  <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> > It looks great, but is only possible in display systems (such as
> > CRTs) which don't actually have fixed, indivisible pixels in the Y
> > axis of the actual display.  This wouldn't work the same for an
> > LCD, for example.  
> 
> But SD LCDs are pretty rare.  Most people with LCD TVs are going to
> have higher resolution display (720 lines at least).  The display is
> going to be scaling the image digitally to fit the actual number of
> pixels it has and if all that's available is an SD signal, an
> anamorphic encoding will give the display the most information with
> which to create the picture.

It is pretty irrelevant for me how you call it. If dimensions of
picture are altered the picture is stretched.

-- 
Cheers, Saul