Ch 36 Lost Its Wide Screen?

[Stanley Kritzik]

I notice that all of 36's sub-channels have reverted to 4X3.  Even stuff like the PBS News Hour, which is an HD broadcast has lost its wide screen video.

Are they having equipment problems?

Stan

[mrschimpf]

I notice that all of 36's sub-channels have reverted to 4X3.  Even stuff like the PBS News Hour, which is an HD broadcast has lost its wide screen video.

Are they having equipment problems?

Stan

36 and its subchannels have always been in 480i 4:3 with widescreen video having letterboxing. Likely there were complaints when MPTV switched over to all of their feeds having widescreen preference and had to pull it back to the way it's always been, which is a shame as everyone just needs to go kicking and screaming into 16:9 by this point.

[duncantuna]

It remains a travesty that the NewsHour is not carried in full HD in Milwaukee.  :mad:

Besides Sesame Street, the NewsHour is the PBS jewel.

[Stanley Kritzik]

36 and its subchannels have always been in 480i 4:3 with widescreen video having letterboxing. Likely there were complaints when MPTV switched over to all of their feeds having widescreen preference and had to pull it back to the way it's always been, which is a shame as everyone just needs to go kicking and screaming into 16:9 by this point.

So, that explains it, but it's no excuse.  MPTV has always bragged that they were first to go digital; they put that new transmitting antenna up years ago; the PBS NewsHour is d9istributed in HD; lots of PBS showpiece programs are in HD; and here is 36 in 480i?

Shame on them.

Stan

[ddysart]

For being a pioneer in DTV and HDTV, MPTV has really manages to screw itself up.  

Between this, and putting columns on HD content, or letter boxing HD content in between those columns, they really seem to get it wrong more often then the get it right.