Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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It's time the FCC set a standard for HD broadcast formats, such as always pillarboxing SD, and/or having consistent mandatory flags for SD and presentation format. This would allow TV and set-top-box manufacturers to offer preference settings and automatically meet the customer's presentation wishes, even if it is for the lame-ass moronic stretch mode.
Banned, in particular, would be TNT's half-crop, half-stretch mangle-vision, and their habit of labeling all their content "HD" when none of it is.
On a better note, A&E and Turner seem to be the last cretin hold-outs. The 5 new channels added by DirecTV this week all correctly pillarbox SD content. Which makes it not a total loss -- at least there's quality SD broadcasting on DirecTV again.