I can't stand any viewing that distorts the source aspect. My PREFERENCE for 4:3 original source material being broadcast on HD channels is PLEASE just send the original aspect (just upscale it), and let ME decide if I want to "stretch" or "zoom" or leave it with side pillars. It's for this reason I don't watch much of anything on the "new" HD channels like HistoryHD, etc. FORCING me to watch stretched content irritates me. They want my eyes on their channel, don't distort the source material.
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.
“Getting too close completely blurred what we saw to the point of incomprehension, but again, this shows a whole heap of potential that's fascinating to us.”
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I can't stand any viewing that distorts the source aspect. My PREFERENCE for 4:3 original source material being broadcast on HD channels is PLEASE just send the original aspect (just upscale it), and let ME decide if I want to "stretch" or "zoom" or leave it with side pillars. It's for this reason I don't watch much of anything on the "new" HD channels like HistoryHD, etc. FORCING me to watch stretched content irritates me. They want my eyes on their channel, don't distort the source material.
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.