Comments on: SD HD

By: Zeke

Zeke — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:20:29 +0000

Quite! It’s a question worth asking, but it’s most certainly Turner. For one, there’s plenty of channels which air SD content on HD channels that maintain an aspect ratio, and I don’t get stretching on SD channels anyway.

As an example, Comedy Central’s programming is mostly 480i. They preserve the aspect ratio with two nice thick black bars. But most Turner channels broadcast at a stretched ratio, zoomed.

There’s a few Discovery channels that do that too, with standard def content, particularly The Science Channel. Rather than stretch, however, they just run a tighter zoom which is obvious when peoples’ names are visibly cut off when displayed on the bottom of the screen.

By: Pepijn

Pepijn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:55:17 +0000

Are you sure that *they* are stretching it, and it’s not your TV doing that because it’s set to 16:9?

By: Zeke

Zeke — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:27:03 +0000

Youtubed? Let’s say youtubed.

By: audio

audio — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:07:00 +0000

i understand what you mean, im the same way about music, being a artist i hate using audio which is in well i wont go into depth but yea.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:35:59 +0000

They could, they should, but they don’t. I think they fail to realize that while watching something that’s 16:9 on 4:3 looks a little distorted but is easily adjusted to, watching something 4:3 in 16:9 is tremendously obvious. We tend to notice stretching more than compressing, it seems, particularly when it’s an uneven stretch. There’s a STRONG tendency toward fisheye on the feeds.

By: James

James — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:33:21 +0000

Ugh…stretched? Seriously? If they’re not gonna show the 16:9 they could at least show it 4:3 with the sidebars…at least then it won’t look all distorted.