I think that one of the great downfalls to live HDTV programming such as news and sporting events is that the camera shots are created to fit a 4:3 television, not HDTV's 16:9 ratio. For a newscast or sports, you are just getting the same view as standard definition only with some extra screen real estate on either side, albeit incorporating a much more visually appealing picture. So what you are getting is a picture that seems too zoomed out for an HDTV.
There doesn't seem to be any way around this until all programming is in HDTV in the seemingly distant future, unless of course there are dedicated cameras for standard definition and high definition.
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I think that one of the great downfalls to live HDTV programming such as news and sporting events is that the camera shots are created to fit a 4:3 television, not HDTV's 16:9 ratio. For a newscast or sports, you are just getting the same view as standard definition only with some extra screen real estate on either side, albeit incorporating a much more visually appealing picture. So what you are getting is a picture that seems too zoomed out for an HDTV.
There doesn't seem to be any way around this until all programming is in HDTV in the seemingly distant future, unless of course there are dedicated cameras for standard definition and high definition.