of ATSC and aspect ratio???

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Originally Posted by kx250rider

... none seems to be quite true on a standard 4:3 tube. The closest I can get is to select 16:9, which seems to be the closest (neither fat & short nor thin & tall). That sacrifices about 20% of the picture viewing area in the form of insufficient vertical height...Charles

No problems like that here. Of course if you put the converter box in 16:9 you lose the "20%" as black bars just like any other letterboxed source material. At least it isn't 2.35:1! Geometric distortion is zero in 4:3 mode too. I have two Zenith boxes in use now, not a problem with those. When it scales to a 4:3 output I lose the sides of the picture on a 4:3 CRT set- big deal. There's usually nothing happening there out in the sides anyway.

Personally I love the picture quality and lack of line noise interference from the 50 year old AC power lines around my neighborhood, no more co-channel interference from ducting or inversion, zero ghosting, no aircraft flutter and fading as I live in close proximity to 3 airports with many aircraft flying over, so not having that is great, and the razor-sharp picture quality on my old CRT sets.