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Fox News Goes 16:9

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Whale

Fox News is now in a widescreen-only format. They're the first station I know of that no longer shows anything in 4:3.
 
At my local gym (where they got Fox News from DirecTV), they were still 4:3, as normal, with no signs of cropping. Maybe your local cable company now offers only the widescreen version?
 
No, they even mentioned it on air and it's on the front page of foxnews.com. Also, I think MSNBC has dropped support for 4:3, but is shown zoomed on my cable instead of in letter box.

If you watch Fox News is fullscreen 4:3, you shouldn't see a logo anymore because it's way on the side.
 
When did Fox have a news network? Then getting news from those opinion networks is not a very smart. Good thing I don't waste money on worthless cable.
 
Whale said:
If you watch Fox News is fullscreen 4:3, you shouldn't see a logo anymore because it's way on the side.
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Negative. Yesterday on the standard feed on my set, the HD shot was shown in somewhat of a "letterbox" format. The Fox News logo was way to the left (no pun intended) and way smaller than usual.
 
what is the big deal about that? when they are HD i will be impressed.
 
My Cox system also offers their HD feed.

I may not agree politically but there's something else: the graphics are too big when scaled up to 16:9. Appropriate for a 4:3 letterbox, yes, but not for the HD feed.
 
willcail said:
When did Fox have a news network? Then getting news from those opinion networks is not a very smart. Good thing I don't waste money on worthless cable.
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Because it makes lots of money and millions of people watch it. That's why.

By the way, they have news segments and they have opinion segments. Just as MSNBC and CNN do - only FNC does a better job in not allowing the opinion part to taint the news part (please google some of the media studies in lieu of arguing with me here).
 
BRNout said:
willcail said:
When did Fox have a news network? Then getting news from those opinion networks is not a very smart. Good thing I don't waste money on worthless cable.
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Because it makes lots of money and millions of people watch it. That's why.

By the way, they have news segments and they have opinion segments. Just as MSNBC and CNN do - only FNC does a better job in not allowing the opinion part to taint the news part (please google some of the media studies in lieu of arguing with me here).
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Yeh, what he said. They report, we decide.
 
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