What format is standard def. DirecTv?
I want to add DirecTv to my MH (I have it in my stick house). A HD Trav'ler install with HD receiver costs about twice as much as installing a dome system which won't give me HD. Are the new digital...
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I don't know about Directs receivers but My Dish DVR has a button on the remote which allows me to toggle between 4:3 (non wide screen) and 16:9 (widescreen).
A lot of it also depends on the TV you have and what the program is being transmitted.
Personally to me I absolutely hate the fact that many programs now days insist on doing STUPID things with the aspect ratio. Basically no matter what you set your TV to it is ultimately messed with by the producer of the program in stupid ways for creativity sake.
My favorite pet peeve about this is when you have a 16:9 TV and it is set to normal the program producer seems to think they are being "creative" by "letter boxing" AND "side bars" AT THE SAME time making the picture on your big TV nothing more than a postage stamp size with a lot of black all around.
In the old days there WERE BROADCAST "STANDARDS" to which ALL programming had to be set to. Now days the stadards have been thrown out and it is a free for all.
Many years ago I would have been trouble shooting my TV if it lost vertical or horizontal height. Now days it is normal to only have postage stamp size pictures.
The TV manufacturers don't even get it, they only give Normal (program is controlling the screen size), Wide (stretches everything wide), Cinema (severe overscan stretching top, bottom and sides cutting off heads of people and losing sides of the scenes). Just plain stupid.
A lot of it also depends on the TV you have and what the program is being transmitted.
Personally to me I absolutely hate the fact that many programs now days insist on doing STUPID things with the aspect ratio. Basically no matter what you set your TV to it is ultimately messed with by the producer of the program in stupid ways for creativity sake.
My favorite pet peeve about this is when you have a 16:9 TV and it is set to normal the program producer seems to think they are being "creative" by "letter boxing" AND "side bars" AT THE SAME time making the picture on your big TV nothing more than a postage stamp size with a lot of black all around.
In the old days there WERE BROADCAST "STANDARDS" to which ALL programming had to be set to. Now days the stadards have been thrown out and it is a free for all.
Many years ago I would have been trouble shooting my TV if it lost vertical or horizontal height. Now days it is normal to only have postage stamp size pictures.
The TV manufacturers don't even get it, they only give Normal (program is controlling the screen size), Wide (stretches everything wide), Cinema (severe overscan stretching top, bottom and sides cutting off heads of people and losing sides of the scenes). Just plain stupid.
