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Channels that air SD programming in stretch-o-vision

Food and HGTV are owned by Scripps, my guess (I don't watch their networks often enough) is that like Turner, Scripps streches their HD across all networks
 
Is everybody aware that - assuming you have an










Is everybody aware that (assuming you have an HDTV) that you can change the "aspect ratio" to accommodate your preferences? I've been in hotel rooms and sports bars where the aspect ratio is set on "widescreen" and the picture is stretched horizontally, and far removed from reality - the people look short. wide, and fat. It's usually when the flesh color is also set to bright orange. and all the people look like they have carotenosis (orange skin disease).
 
Some TVs have an AUTO feature to adjust the aspect ratio, but even with that, the shows in question, especially on TBS, will still get stretched no matter what you do.
 
I noticed this on HGTV during shows that weren't recorded in HD, especially the older episodes of "Holmes on Homes" -- the picture quality of SD-only shows on the network ported to HD aren't very good, either.
 
Every time I go into a business that has a 16x9 TV showing something in stretch-o-vision I think of the old saying that TV adds ten pounds. Today it's more like 50 pounds. :D
 
Apparently, the Planet Fitness in my neighborhood has sprung for a new TV system, including HDTV's. They still have Cablevision, and that's how I (a FiOS subscriber; remember, you can't get this channel "on phone company TV") know that news 12's standard feed is stretched out on their HD feed.
 
I don't have cable, but I'm curious. Since most of these cable viewers have their TV's set wrong, judging by what I see on a regular basis when I go into a resturant, When they are watching TBS that is in stretch-o-vision, wouldn't it be double stretch-o-vision, since these idiot cable viewers already have their TV set on stretch-o-vision?

There is no excuse for stretch-o-vision. If the show was filmed in 4:3, it should REMAIN 4:3. There is no way under Gods green earth that you can properly show a 4:3 program in widescreen, unless you crop the picture or use stretch o vision. It just can't be done, and shouldn't be done under no circumstances. The only way would be if it were orginally shot at a wider camera angle on purpose to allow for cropping.

Its bad enough that cable viewers stretch the picture but when TV stations and cable viewers do it it's unforgivable. I refuse to watch that crap.
 
flytrap said:
I don't have cable, but I'm curious. Since most of these cable viewers have their TV's set wrong, judging by what I see on a regular basis when I go into a resturant, When they are watching TBS that is in stretch-o-vision, wouldn't it be double stretch-o-vision, since these idiot cable viewers already have their TV set on stretch-o-vision?
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I wouldn't think so -- "stretch-o-vision" is only on the HD feeds. Very likely you're either seeing TBS's HD feed in "stretch-o-vision", or its SD feed with the restaurant hetting it in "stretch-o-vision" themselves.
 
ajc_trw said:
Every time I go into a business that has a 16x9 TV showing something in stretch-o-vision I think of the old saying that TV adds ten pounds. Today it's more like 50 pounds. :D
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They need to go and find one of those lenses they used to shoot Heart
videos back in the 80's! ;D
 
I watch "Don't Forget the Lyrics", which is syndicated, on a broadcast station, but on cable. I don't have control over what I see on regular (pre-digital) screens, and I don't know what they do exactly, but one day I could tell they were doing it in wide-screen format. Only I was not seeing what I normally see on the right side. I was seeing the left side of a wide-screen broadcast! And the color was bad too.
 
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