GaryEA
Second Unit
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2001
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I was hoping somebody could help a guy who isn’t tech-savvy make sense out of a problem I’m having with some WNET/Channel 13 programs.
I get my cable from Comcast and don’t have an HD capable TV. In fact, my TV is a standard 4:3 screen. I just haven’t taken the leap yet.
My favorite programs on WNET are Frontline, American Experience and any documentaries they may air. Two weeks ago, Frontline began to look different. Instead of being letterboxed like it has been for years, it was “zoomed in”, for lack of a better term, and information was being cut off on the sides (names, Frontline logo). It was unwatchable.
American Experience and the recent Simon Schama doc have also suffered in the same way. However, if I watch Frontline on demand, it is properly letterboxed.
So why is this happening? Comcast told me I did not need a converter box because the existing cable box will handle the transition to DTV. My email to WNET has gone unanswered.
In a sidebar to this, WLIW aired Sesame Street in a combined letterboxed/window boxed format.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Gary
I get my cable from Comcast and don’t have an HD capable TV. In fact, my TV is a standard 4:3 screen. I just haven’t taken the leap yet.
My favorite programs on WNET are Frontline, American Experience and any documentaries they may air. Two weeks ago, Frontline began to look different. Instead of being letterboxed like it has been for years, it was “zoomed in”, for lack of a better term, and information was being cut off on the sides (names, Frontline logo). It was unwatchable.
American Experience and the recent Simon Schama doc have also suffered in the same way. However, if I watch Frontline on demand, it is properly letterboxed.
So why is this happening? Comcast told me I did not need a converter box because the existing cable box will handle the transition to DTV. My email to WNET has gone unanswered.
In a sidebar to this, WLIW aired Sesame Street in a combined letterboxed/window boxed format.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Gary