Only a fool watches SD stretched and thinks it an improvement (and only idiot jerks of broadcasters present it that way: I mean you TBS, TNT & A&E).
As for windowboxing, try the zoom button. Window boxing is an artifact of SD. When you make a 16:9 SD program, then send it to 4:3 sets, you letterbox. When you take that 4:3 material and present it to 16:9 sets as "HD" (joke), you pillar-box it. The result is window-boxing.
Most sets can remove windoboxing with the zoom button. If you are in the market for a new HDTV, make damn sure it can stretch, zoom and squeeze 1080 inputs. Apparently some schlock still can't.
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Only a fool watches SD stretched and thinks it an improvement (and only idiot jerks of broadcasters present it that way: I mean you TBS, TNT & A&E).
As for windowboxing, try the zoom button. Window boxing is an artifact of SD. When you make a 16:9 SD program, then send it to 4:3 sets, you letterbox. When you take that 4:3 material and present it to 16:9 sets as "HD" (joke), you pillar-box it. The result is window-boxing.
Most sets can remove windoboxing with the zoom button. If you are in the market for a new HDTV, make damn sure it can stretch, zoom and squeeze 1080 inputs. Apparently some schlock still can't.