DTV on standard 4:3 TVs and CRT damage

[Electronic M]

With regards to modern BPC sets who cares if there is burn in of any kind, in most places good ones can be had for free or next to nothing.

Stretching a 4x3 program horizontally is another sin the channels are guilty of, but what pisses me off most is stations that are hell bent on putting out ONLY a 16:9 frame despite showing some 4:3 content...What the cable co gets is a 'HD' pillar boxed 16:9 stream that they then letter box. The final result is a 4:3 image on a 4:3 screen that looks like it is under-scanned on all sides. : Effectively, and needlessly giving me a smaller screen size than the set I'm watching.