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Originally Posted by dr.ido
The most frustrating problem I have found is that they all ignore the aspect ratio setting. The aspect ratio will change from program to program (and from ad to ad sometimes) regardless of what the box is set to.
This leads to 4:3 content being shown with black bars on the sides when viewing on the 4:3 set even though the box is set to 4:3 fullscreen. I can live with letterbox or center cut on 16:9 content, but why do they need to mess with existing 4:3 content?
Sometimes the picture appears with a black border on all four sides, so even
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Ah yes. I have come across this as well. The program may be in 16x9, but the commercials are 4x3. Sometimes my screen is surrounded by a black border on all sides of the video.
That is one glitch they need to work out.
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Originally Posted by Carmine
I forget which channel I was watching, but they all have been talking about digital switchover lately during their nightly 2 hour block of info-tainment (I mean "news"). I suppose this is because the date is now less than a year away.
Anyways, they are cross-promoting with a local appliance chain (ABC) and they cutaway to a display at the store that showed two TV screens behind a piece of plywood labeled "digital" and "analog". Guess what happened? The digital screen froze, then pixelated!
Needless to say, they cut back real quick while acting like that just didn't happen!
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They didn't talk about the switchover very much on 7 action news last night... maybe cos I was watching the HD version. They didn't show an HDTV screen freezing and pixelating, though I saw some of that yesterday.
For like maybe one or two frames, PBS-HD had a couple pixelated squares in the video. It only happened once, and wasn't due to weak signal. Maybe a station error or something.
I'm building a better antenna to replace the small outdoor antenna I currently have. Once I get it rigged up, I'll hunt for new channels.