Posts Tagged ‘ hdtv ’

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.



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) [...]