[opendtv] Re: 4:3 transmissions of syndicated programming
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:36:43 -0500
John Shutt wrote:
> Due to the nature of a broadcast facility, a station may easily
> be able to pass through HDTV live from the network, but not be
> able to record and playback HD.
>
> If you would like to know more, I'd be more than happy to
> elaborate. However, because of the nature of program delivery
> and storage, I don't see all syndicated programming to suddenly
> be delivered in 16:9 HD on Feb 18, 2009.
I didn't mean necessarily HD.
Example: last night, CBS9 was transmitting an old episode of CSI Miami.
The episode was originally HD and 16:9, and now it was being transmitted
as SD and 4:3. I've seen this sort of scenario repeated countless times.
Why couldn't the syndicated show have been transmitted as SD and 16:9?
The only explanation I can come up with is that the station wants to
create a single program stream to the ATSC and the NTSC transmitters,
and that they don't want to letterbox the NTSC program?? That's a guess.
When OTA NTSC goes away, are we likely to start seeing more SD
transmitted as 16:9, in such cases as this?
Bert
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