OMG. What the hell are they thinking over at MeTV ??
This morning I tried to watch an episode of Family Affair but it was in full blown 16x9 S-T-R-E-C-H--O--V-I-S-I-O-N !
HORRIBLE! They zoomed and stretched the video to fill the entire 16x9 screen, there were no black bars on the side at all. Everyone's head was chopped off and everyone's face was so zoomed in they were popping out of the screen like a bad 3D movie.
Other shows are not as severely distorted but are still horrible to watch. EVERYTHING MeTV airs was filmed in 4:3 and was meant to be seen that way. Displaying it any other way is an abomination and an insult to the creators of that original content. It's horribly distracting and extremely annoying. When they zoom in content is lost. Who in the world would ever think this is a good idea?
KBMT 12.4 is now transmitting an actual 1280x720 picture but they leave the content distortion to MeTV.
KFDM 6.3 (GRIT) is transmitting a 704x480 but in 16:9 format. KFDM themselves are the ones that are mangling the video and in my opinion, what they are doing is a far greater crime than what MeTV is doing.
Is this where we are going? S-T-R-E-C-H--O--V-I-S-I-O-N ?? Are there that many whiny babies about black bars on their screens that everyone else has to suffer?? I would rather have black bars on screen and see the content in it's original format than some adulterated, mangled up garbage. I suspect it's the whiny little millennials bunch, the same ones that think it's a good idea to have a TV that WATCHES YOU and LISTENS to your home 24/7 and uploads everything it sees and hears to Korea. "Oh, it's too much work to push buttons on my remote, I want to give voice commands to my TV. I want to wave my arms at the TV to change channels." (But pressing buttons is more work than waving your arms?)
I suspect within a few years MeTV will stretch ALL content to 16:9 and to hell with black bars.
It's time for me to start buying up my old favorites on Blu-ray and just quit watching TV. I despise commercials anyway. And all the logos and watermarks and promotional animations.
The world is going to hell in a walmart hand basket and that's as good as it gets, that's where it belongs.
Oh yeah, and GET OFF MY LAWN !!
Disclaimer: Today's rant has been brought to you by Too Much Coffee ?
This morning I tried to watch an episode of Family Affair but it was in full blown 16x9 S-T-R-E-C-H--O--V-I-S-I-O-N !
HORRIBLE! They zoomed and stretched the video to fill the entire 16x9 screen, there were no black bars on the side at all. Everyone's head was chopped off and everyone's face was so zoomed in they were popping out of the screen like a bad 3D movie.
Other shows are not as severely distorted but are still horrible to watch. EVERYTHING MeTV airs was filmed in 4:3 and was meant to be seen that way. Displaying it any other way is an abomination and an insult to the creators of that original content. It's horribly distracting and extremely annoying. When they zoom in content is lost. Who in the world would ever think this is a good idea?
KBMT 12.4 is now transmitting an actual 1280x720 picture but they leave the content distortion to MeTV.
KFDM 6.3 (GRIT) is transmitting a 704x480 but in 16:9 format. KFDM themselves are the ones that are mangling the video and in my opinion, what they are doing is a far greater crime than what MeTV is doing.
Is this where we are going? S-T-R-E-C-H--O--V-I-S-I-O-N ?? Are there that many whiny babies about black bars on their screens that everyone else has to suffer?? I would rather have black bars on screen and see the content in it's original format than some adulterated, mangled up garbage. I suspect it's the whiny little millennials bunch, the same ones that think it's a good idea to have a TV that WATCHES YOU and LISTENS to your home 24/7 and uploads everything it sees and hears to Korea. "Oh, it's too much work to push buttons on my remote, I want to give voice commands to my TV. I want to wave my arms at the TV to change channels." (But pressing buttons is more work than waving your arms?)
I suspect within a few years MeTV will stretch ALL content to 16:9 and to hell with black bars.
It's time for me to start buying up my old favorites on Blu-ray and just quit watching TV. I despise commercials anyway. And all the logos and watermarks and promotional animations.
The world is going to hell in a walmart hand basket and that's as good as it gets, that's where it belongs.
Oh yeah, and GET OFF MY LAWN !!
Disclaimer: Today's rant has been brought to you by Too Much Coffee ?
