[opendtv] Re: News: Nielsen Gives Fuzzy Picture of HDTV Penetration
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:19:54 -0500
John Shutt wrote:
> In the US, with possibly one or two obscure exceptions, we
> have not had any NTSC 16:9 sets for sale to the US public.
> Therefore, all SD programming is 4:3 exclusively. I would
> estimate that half of cable programs today are letterboxed,
> but not one channel is in anamorphic SD 16:9. This makes
> sense, since the US never adopted or adapted the European
> vertical interval screen format signaling to NTSC.
>
> Once analog is turned off in 2009, this situation will not
> change. There are too many legacy SD cable channels and
> television sets to change this trend.
In, say, 10 or 15 years time, John, when cable systems have been
converted to all digital transmissions, and when the 4:3 sets out there
will start petering out, what motivation will there be to retain 4:3
transmissions?
Bert
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