What I think is stupid is letterboxing on cable. If the show is in 16x9, broadcast it squeezed or "anamorphic" sure, it won't be HD, but the resolution will be better because part of it won't be wasted on black bars then I won't have to use a "zoom mode". (Just like anamorphic DVDs) All ya'll 4:3 people are Luddites. Get with the program. It would drive sales of new TVs for sure.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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What I think is stupid is letterboxing on cable. If the show is in 16x9, broadcast it squeezed or "anamorphic" sure, it won't be HD, but the resolution will be better because part of it won't be wasted on black bars then I won't have to use a "zoom mode". (Just like anamorphic DVDs) All ya'll 4:3 people are Luddites. Get with the program. It would drive sales of new TVs for sure.