I heard one of the sat providers was doing this. They would take the 16:9 HDTV broadcast, crop the sides to make 4:3, and then downconvert it to SD to serve as the SD version of the channel in their lineup. I wouldn't be surprised if other providers are doing this as well. It's a sure fire way to make sure they don't get caught with the their digital pants down when the analog shutoff happens.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I heard one of the sat providers was doing this. They would take the 16:9 HDTV broadcast, crop the sides to make 4:3, and then downconvert it to SD to serve as the SD version of the channel in their lineup. I wouldn't be surprised if other providers are doing this as well. It's a sure fire way to make sure they don't get caught with the their digital pants down when the analog shutoff happens.