[aclug-L] Re: Stretch-O-Vision Petition Online

[Jonathan Hall <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

1) I've never known Cox to do this.
2) The cable/satelite companies don't control what signal the stations
send them.  If a channel is doing this (and again, I'm not aware of one
that does), then contact *that channel*.  Cox doesn't control the
channel (with a couple of exceptions--like the Cox Sports channel, that
isn't broadcast in HD (yet) anyway).


On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 15:44 -0700, DAVID CARMICHAEL wrote:
> Stretch-O-Vision Petition Online
> This petition is for the content providers (Cox, Comcast, DirecTV, ect,) 
> network executives (ABC, A&E, TBS, ect), program producers (Joss Whedon, 
> David E. Kelley, Mark Burnett, Jerry Bruckheimer, Donald Bellisario, ect) and 
> program providers (Viacom, King World Productions, ect) to stop the current 
> practice of showing programs on "HD-TV" in other than their "Original Aspect 
> Ratio" produced screen size and not to "Stretch-O-Vision" programing just to 
> fill a 16X9 HD TV screen.
> I also suggest that, if you agree, you send silly putty to your favorite 
> program provider and / or the head of the FCC, asking that programs must be 
> sent in their native / orignal screen format?
> Wiki page about aspect ratio.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)
> [URL="http://www.petitiononline.com/sillyhd/petition.html"]Link to online 
> petition: [/URL]
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