Posts Tagged ‘ dtv ’

Please, Correct Your Aspect Ratio

Mar 6th, 2009 | By CJ | Category: Gripes, Snippets

OK, this is driving me nuts. People, attend to your aspect ratios. I’m sick to death of 16:9 (widescreen) videos being scrunched to 4:3 (normal). Though it happens a little less frequently, stretching 4:3 vids to fit 16:9 is just as awful.



Irks and Perks

Feb 11th, 2009 | By CJ | Category: Musings

We all have ‘em. Things that just make us cringe, ball our fists, and want to just go all medieval on someone’s tuchus. On the other hand, there are also those things that make you happy that… well, just make you happy. Here are a few of my irks and perks. Keep in mind, this is far from a comprehensive list, just a sampling.



Third Millennium TVs

Aug 16th, 2008 | By CJ | Category: Journal

This past week has found the family entering the twenty-first century in terms of television: that’s right, we now are finally switching from CRT to LCD. Starting a few weeks ago, two of our TVs started their death throws.  Our kitchen set would randomly turn itself off (often less than ten minutes after turning on) [...]