[geeks] An annoyance...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2008/03/31 Mon PM 07:39:59 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] An annoyance...

>Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> Jonathan Katz wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> Invest in a universal remote and bring along the little booklet that 
>> lets you set it up to control almost any kind of TV.
>
>Does that work on a locked-down TV?

Are the TVs locked-down, or is the signal source locked-down?

Lionel