----- "Devin Heitmueller" <[email protected]> wrote: > Like I said, I would be thrilled to see more content providers > properly denoting widescreen NTSC content. It's pretty frustrating > watching a "widescreen DVD" on an "widescreen television" and still > getting black bars on the top/bottom (and currently the only way to > work around it nowadays is if the television is smart enough to > heuristically detect the black bars). > > If they had actually followed the recommendations in EIA-608 (setting > the aspect ratio in the line 21 VBI data), none of this would be a > problem.
No, but they'd take the rap for the fact that the image would look Even Worse, and if they make you set it, then they don't have to. :-) And, to be pedantic about it again, there is *no such thing* as "widescreen NTSC content". If it's NTSC, it's 4:3. Period. End of report. If you want to put letterboxed or anamorphic content in that image well, that's your own lookout. But we're sure as hell not going to encourage you: NTSC looks bad enough. Well, unless you have Faroudja SuperNTSC encoders and a clean analog chain at the station. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
