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ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU airing in wide-screen format in SD feed

mrschimpf said:
The reason why providers are switching the HD feeds downscaled might be replacing their MPEG2 equipment with MPEG4 because ESPN is dropping all their MPEG2 feeds to move on to MPEG4. Doesn't mean anything to the end user since they'll convert it some way, but it provides smaller compression for program providers. Thus, no more ESPN in boxy 4:3; Charter in my area has already switched every ESPN SD channel they get (including Deportes) to downscaled 16:9 except for Classic stuck in 4:3, which I swear is only being run until the last cable contract runs out because there is nothing there to watch anymore at all.
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So MPEG4 only shows the picture in 16:9 and not 4:3. For people without HD cable they now can view ESPN in HD by just fixing the picture setting on their LCD TV.
 
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