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36-1 Now Wide Screen

Started by Stanley Kritzik, Friday Jun 18, 2010, 07:32:06 AM

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Stanley Kritzik

Friday Jun 18, 2010, 07:32:06 AM
I noticed that 36-1 is now wide screen (how "high" the "def', i don't know).  It sure looks better than it did a few weeks ago.  Did they make a decision to go modern, or something?

Stan

Xizer

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Friday Jun 18, 2010, 01:36:45 PM
It's not widescreen. It's still the same old 480i garbage.

LoadStar

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Friday Jun 18, 2010, 05:55:58 PM
Quote from: Xizer;55733It's not widescreen. It's still the same old 480i garbage.

Widescreen and 480i are not mutually exclusive.

trev57

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Friday Jun 18, 2010, 06:07:40 PM Last Edit: Friday Jun 18, 2010, 07:30:55 PM by trev57
Quote from: Xizer;55733It's not widescreen. It's still the same old 480i garbage.

You're right. It's not widescreen. It just appears that way because when the picture is stretched to fill an HDTV, the MPTV bug appears to be in a "4:3 safe" area. At least that's what I see on the SD channel on Charter.

ArgMeMatey

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Saturday Jun 19, 2010, 08:16:10 AM
Quote from: trev57;55735You're right. It's not widescreen. It just appears that way because when the picture is stretched to fill an HDTV, the MPTV bug appears to be in a "4:3 safe" area. At least that's what I see on the SD channel on Charter.

Just curious, since they have music on two subchannels, with only rudimentary video content, could they drop the video resolution lower and "give" that bandwidth to 36-1?  What is the lowest resolution possible under ATSC? Can they provide audio with blank video or plain text video? Without cutting the audio rate?
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