[geeks] An annoyance...

wa2egp at att.net 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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