Rant on Washington Post company policy on digital TV signals
I just got a great HDTV and all of the local affiliates carry the HD signal. Beautiful except one station insists on stretching the 4:3 aspect images to 16:9. I called to complain and was told it is the corporate policy.
My TV lets me stretch the picture, but I don't like the distortion. Instead of letting the customer make the decision, the Washington Post company makes it for you - the picture will be stretched.
The result - I don't watch the non-hd shows on that station any more.
My problem is the ancient TV that bleeds pink color on one side of the screen and green on the other, making everything I watch seem vaguely sci-fi. I usually can't see much of it though because I don't get cable or satellite where I am so I get three channels via my antenna that's perched on my roof - the Snow channel, the Static channel and the Blue channel.
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