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Reply is to a message from: Don Del Grande

Yes. Since I get two FOX stations, I have to assume that it is the cable company that is doing it. Next time I get a chance, I will check my antenna TV and see what it is pulling in. Until the national switch to digital OTA broadcasts, this was never a problem.

Our cable company is one of the ones that is switching everyone to digital cable, too, but the picture that comes in with the little digital box also has the wrong aspect ratio. Unlike the OTA converters for the government switchover, the aspect ratio is not an user-definable option.

I have to tune in here and read your summaries in order to know what the blackboard says when it gets cut off, or what the name of the I&S movie was from this past week. Thank you for posting them!

Mike

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On Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010 06:56:00 -500, "Mike Powell" wrote:

I had begun to suspect DirecTV of doing the same for the past two weeks...fortunately, I was wrong. I usually watch on the feed from Fox 5 NYC, which has been showing it letterboxed from the first 16x9 episode all up until "Postcards from the Wedge," when they suddenly switched to center-cut. Hoped it was a goof, but this week's was the same way. But on the plus side, I guess it's just a decision from whoever runs the Fox 5 SD feed, since last night I realized that the Fox 11 L.A. feed is still letterboxed (for now)...I just gotta wait three hours to watch it now.

Hopefully they stay with it though, because my only OTA option is another SD feed that center-cuts, since the local Fox HD feed is on a different, impossible-for-me-to-pick-up channel. I'm honestly surprised at how so many channels all over the map have gone center-cut, you'd think people would be used to (and understand the purpose of) letterboxing by now...especially when center-cut provides so many egregious examples.

-lugnut

[email] (lugnut) wrote:

The SD signal I get (KTVU, San Francisco) has been letterbox from the first 16x9 episode up through the end of 2009, but starting with "Thursdays with Abie" in the first week of February, it has been center-cut. It looks like the SD broadcast of American Idol is letterbox (it's hard to tell on a 16x9 TV, but nothing appears to be left out), so it's most likely something the station is doing.

-- Don

"Mike Powell" wrote:

The complete list (in broadcast order, I'm pretty sure, except maybe for the first few years) is available at:

http://www.snpp.com/guides/chalkboard.openings.html

-- Don

Reply is to a message from: Don Del Grande

I was thinking this was a "play on words" reference to "People" magazine (sounds similar). The cover didn't look like a Playboy cover, IIRC, plus they usually call it "Playdude."

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Reply is to a message from: Don Del Grande

In the Batman (non-animated) TV series, didn't Robin have the appearance of wearing his on the outside?

Mike

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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Mike Powell wrote:

That was pretty common among superheroes, even Batman on that series did it. The imagery I had of SUperman did it too, which is why I wore underwear overy my pyjamas when I wanted to play Superman.

Of course, the superheroes were not wearing underwear, just short shorts, but to the uneducated eyes of the young, it looked like underwear on the outside.

Michael

Mike Powell wrote:

The "superhero" in the episode had a costume with a "U" on it (no, not Underdog) as well - I want to say it's a character from Radioactive Man, but I'm not entirely sure.

Besides - what about Quail-man? He wears his briefs on the outside as well. (He even has his own Facebook page...)

-- Don

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:02:04 -0700, Don Del Grande wrote:

Uranium Boy?;-)

Beat me to it. :-D