letterbox 4:3 programming

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I seldom watch Dateline NBC. But I flipped channels tonight and I
stopped on NBC when I saw the Dateline show presenting a letterboxed
picture in a 4:3 screen. My widescreen TV then add the side bars to
make block borders on all sides.

Before I had my HDTV, I always thought the reason they put letterbox
in this kind of show was because the show was taped in HD format. Now
with my HDTV, I just discovered that all those were just lies. Why
does a big network like NBC would fake a HD show instead of making a
real one or just use the original 4:3 picture? What good is such a
lie? They cheated about 20% out of the 4:3 screen real estate when
they unnecessarily put the letter box there for non-HD viewers. And
the double framing on the 16:9 screen resulted only in 80%x80% or 64%
of the screen.

It didn't bother me much before I knew the truth. Now, I am pissed
when they cheated 20% and 36% of the precious screen area.

 

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you really thought it was because the show was filmed in hd? it's done for
the same reason shows like the sopranos and lots of commercials are done
that way - for the effect...it gives the show a kind of film effect...that's
the only reason...all the ibm commercials are like that with blue bars


"Caloonese" <caloonese@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ee67c74a.0407302118.3c79946@posting.google.com...
> I seldom watch Dateline NBC. But I flipped channels tonight and I
> stopped on NBC when I saw the Dateline show presenting a letterboxed
> picture in a 4:3 screen. My widescreen TV then add the side bars to
> make block borders on all sides.
>
> Before I had my HDTV, I always thought the reason they put letterbox
> in this kind of show was because the show was taped in HD format. Now
> with my HDTV, I just discovered that all those were just lies. Why
> does a big network like NBC would fake a HD show instead of making a
> real one or just use the original 4:3 picture? What good is such a
> lie? They cheated about 20% out of the 4:3 screen real estate when
> they unnecessarily put the letter box there for non-HD viewers. And
> the double framing on the 16:9 screen resulted only in 80%x80% or 64%
> of the screen.
>
> It didn't bother me much before I knew the truth. Now, I am pissed
> when they cheated 20% and 36% of the precious screen area.

 

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Okay. If they like the widescreen effect, they should produce them
for the 16:9 TV, i.e. make a HD version. What they give now is a 60%
shrunk version.

"oscargrouch" <leeYOURjackVIRGINITYmo@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<2n2e35Fr1nhsU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> you really thought it was because the show was filmed in hd? it's done for
> the same reason shows like the sopranos and lots of commercials are done
> that way - for the effect...it gives the show a kind of film effect...that's
> the only reason...all the ibm commercials are like that with blue bars
>
>
> "Caloonese" <caloonese@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:ee67c74a.0407302118.3c79946@posting.google.com...
> > I seldom watch Dateline NBC. But I flipped channels tonight and I
> > stopped on NBC when I saw the Dateline show presenting a letterboxed
> > picture in a 4:3 screen. My widescreen TV then add the side bars to
> > make block borders on all sides.
> >
> > Before I had my HDTV, I always thought the reason they put letterbox
> > in this kind of show was because the show was taped in HD format. Now
> > with my HDTV, I just discovered that all those were just lies. Why
> > does a big network like NBC would fake a HD show instead of making a
> > real one or just use the original 4:3 picture? What good is such a
> > lie? They cheated about 20% out of the 4:3 screen real estate when
> > they unnecessarily put the letter box there for non-HD viewers. And
> > the double framing on the 16:9 screen resulted only in 80%x80% or 64%
> > of the screen.
> >
> > It didn't bother me much before I knew the truth. Now, I am pissed
> > when they cheated 20% and 36% of the precious screen area.

 

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"oscargrouch" <leeYOURjackVIRGINITYmo@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:2n2e35Fr1nhsU1@uni-berlin.de:

> you really thought it was because the show was filmed in hd? it's
> done for the same reason shows like the sopranos and lots of
> commercials are done that way - for the effect...it gives the show a
> kind of film effect...that's the only reason...all the ibm commercials
> are like that with blue bars

Uh, the Sopranos is HD on my network.


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