[geeks] An annoyance...
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wa2egp at att.net
Tue Apr 1 12:46:11 CDT 2008
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com>
>
> Here's an annoyance....
>
> I've started a new job (HOORAY!) where I'm doing a lot of traveling.
>
> Many hotel rooms now have nice widescreen TVs, except they're all fed
> normal SD crap (4:3 format) and are setup to "stretch" to 16:9,
> causing all kinds of ugly distortion. Of course, the TVs are locked
> down so you can't fix this, meanwhile everything looks... funny
> (fatter people, buildings, roads, etc.)
>
> -Jon
Just look at it at an angle so it's 12:9. :)
Bob
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