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Jesus, you all know a lot about TV's and aspect ratio's. Perhaps someone can help me understand this, because this is all new to me as of last week when we bought a 36 inch LCD.
There are some channels that have the black bar's on the side, I'm okay with that, I do notice the distortions on stretch, so I leave it rather than switching to wide screen. And I there are some "HD" channels that look great and the entire 36 inches of the TV. There's two things that don't make sense to me:
1. I can filter scrolling through channels by category, and if I filter "HD", only a handful take up the entire screen, most still have black bars on the side. I thought all "HD" shows should fit on entirely on the HD tv?
2. And much more annoying - there's a handful of channels that maintain the black bars on the side when you flip to them, but on top of that horizontal bars appear on the top and bottom. So the picture is the same exact shape as the TV but 4 inches cut off on either side, and probably 3 on the top and bottom as well. Does anyone else have this problem? With a relatively small TV at 36", these channels are virtually unwatchable at any distance. But otherwise the picture looks great if you get out of bed and walk right up to it
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