Premium Member Tim O'Connor Posted March 13, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted March 13, 2012 I took this picture of a boxing match on tv Friday night. Why would this be broadcast like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Vincent Sweeney Posted March 13, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted March 13, 2012 Wow, a CRT TV; didn't know any were still active. I'm guessing: 4:3 video, put into an HD (16:9) format, pillared, for wide HD broadcast, then letter-boxed regionally for SD broadcast instead. It's a shame what is happening these days with some shows and especially movies. So much stretching to fit HD TV's, or pillar boxing, or this, just because a few people are still using the old stuff. Hopefully we will see the end of this someday very soon. 16:9 TV's are the majority now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Drysdale Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Wow, a CRT TV; didn't know any were still active. It seems they're alive and kicking. Perhaps you can't get them in western markets, but sales seem to have been booming in other parts of the world at least one year ago. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-08-30/news/27632296_1_crt-tvs-lg-electronics-cathode-ray-tube They also last quite a long time. I know at least one person in the industry who still uses their old CRT television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 (edited) You now know two, if you interpret 'industry' widely enough. We retired my gran's CRT a couple of years ago, but only because we were given a widescreen set (CRT, as it happens). A little magenta, but it was still going strong after just short of 30 years. Still an all-CRT household for TV. Back on-topic, good for them. It's spectacularly annoying to see an Academy film cropped to widescreen. Frankly, Scarlett, I do give a damn. Edited March 13, 2012 by Mark Dunn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted March 13, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted March 13, 2012 What surprises me more than the continuation of direct-view CRT displays in people's homes is the number of American sports bars that still have CRT projection. CRT projection can provide excellent performance if it's adequately specified and given a bit of care and attention. Since it was so expensive when it was in current use, the irony is that it usually looks better these days, since you can now buy what were really upscale CRT projectors for very little money. But the ones that have been hanging around in bars since the early 90s, which have done tens of thousands of hours, and whose tubes have decayed to the point of providing nothing but a faintly pinkish-yellow glow... P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Nothing worse than going into a sports bar and having to endure your favorite sports on a crappy old CRT projector that is so badly calibrated that every image has rainbows along the edges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Anthony Vale Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Nothing worse than going into a sports bar and having to endure your favorite sports on a crappy old CRT projector that is so badly calibrated that every image has rainbows along the edges. Au contraire! Far worse is that there's no alternative to sports there. No news, no Jeopardy or Wheel..., not even the Travel Channel! Back in the glory days of the Soviet Union, Cspan would carry the Moscow Evening News. First item in the sports section was Chess!!! When are we going to see that in a ******* American sports bar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markshaw Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 The good thing is that if the TV is screwed and there is no color, it doesn't matter if they are showing chess :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Au contraire! Far worse is that there's no alternative to sports there. No news, no Jeopardy or Wheel..., not even the Travel Channel! Back in the glory days of the Soviet Union, Cspan would carry the Moscow Evening News. First item in the sports section was Chess!!! When are we going to see that in a ******* American sports bar? Can see that really taking off Stateside, most folks can barely follow baseball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Anthony Vale Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Can see that really taking off Stateside, most folks can barely follow baseball. Well, we do have televised poker tournoments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Well, we do have televised poker tournoments. And that is strangely addictive viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 My Projector is a 5 year old 720P Hitachi and I have to say the images produced by it are absolutely superb. On another forum my screenshots looked better than many 1080P images, by a large margin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 When it comes to colors and resolution there is still no beating good old cathod ray tv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markshaw Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 I took this picture of a boxing match on tv Friday night. Why would this be broadcast like this? HD broadcasts are shown in 16:9 format. When shown on a 4:3 TV you will get black bars top and bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 I can't make out if that's a 4:3 or a 16:9 TV in the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Looks a lot like 4:3.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tim O'Connor Posted May 17, 2012 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 17, 2012 I can't make out if that's a 4:3 or a 16:9 TV in the OP. It's an old 4:3 and the boxing match was both letterboxed and pillared, making it a smaller 4:3 within a larger 4:3 which felt strange to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Samuals Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Go wide man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 It's an old 4:3 and the boxing match was both letterboxed and pillared, making it a smaller 4:3 within a larger 4:3 which felt strange to watch. You've lost half the damned screen area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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