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Personally I think HD channels should even REFUSE to carry advertising that isn't HD. Scale it down for their SD version of their channel, but at least on the HD version show the full HD commercial. Pretty silly to be watching an HD channel, and see commercials that are OBVIOUSLY 16:9 format source, yet they run them with both top/bottom bards AND side pillars.
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I wish it was used more.

Brian]]>Apr 7th 2006 3:17PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/
I guess people want the content delivered in the native aspect ratio so they have to choice to stretch, fine.. If it was pre-stretched, you wouldn't have to un-scretch (while using Media Center, anyway). Better still, if it's stretch-o, just don't watch it. Who cares if nobody but you knows the difference between HD and stretch-o-vision?

There's always something on in HD,right? So only watch HD. If not TURN OFF THE D@MN TV! Or pace yourself watching the recorded HD shows from the past week..
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ESPN does the best job of it but it makes me mad when I turn to ESPN and want to see HD programming and I see those bars.]]>Apr 7th 2006 3:29PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/Apr 7th 2006 3:42PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/Apr 7th 2006 3:55PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/Apr 7th 2006 4:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/
That way it would be everyone with a 4:3 set putting up with "squish-o-vision", but if you have a 16:9 set it looks right.

My order of importance:
1. Sound Sync/Right Mode/No Dropouts
2. Aspect Ratio
3. Resolution/Compression/Quality

There should be absolutely NO 4:3 DVDs
Pan and scan should be metadata for the video and instructs a built-in video processor in either your TV or DVD player of the appropriate "pans" and "scans" if you select 4:3 pan and scan in your setup menus.

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I'm picky about something else: TV's that slightly oh, ever so slightly horizontally stretch 4:3 content. I'm not talking about stretching all the way to 16:9- I'm talking about the tv's that have it set in their minds that 4:3 is a little FAT horizontally. You can tell when watching basketball- If the basketball's not perfectly round, aspect ratio is wrong. Sure, your tv might be in the proper aspect ratio mode- but it's simply understood that, based on my 2 hdtv purchase, my Sony CRT had perfect 4:3, while on the other hand, a 26" 16:9 Polaroid displayed 4:3 slightly, yet still noticeably, fat. It's not as annoying as stretching all the way to 16:9, but it's upsetting that the manufacturer's don't pay that much attention to picture aspect accuracy. BLeh.]]>Apr 10th 2006 6:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/04/07/would-you-rather-have-your-sports-in-stretch-o-vision-or-letterb/
As for advertising, they should accept anything. Besides, who cares if you can't see a bottle of pills in HD?]]>Jan 1st 2009 5:14AM