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David Sturzenbecher

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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2014, 10:15:31 PM »

Paying for TV is so 3 years ago.


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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2014, 10:21:55 PM »

I can control the aspect ratio through my Marantz tuner if needed, other than that everything else adjusts by itself.
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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2014, 01:04:41 AM »

Paying for TV is so 3 years ago.


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OTA(Digital) TV Tuner + Netflix here. 😀

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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2014, 01:47:08 PM »

In europe, 4:3 screens disappeared 10 years ago... :-)
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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2014, 10:51:22 PM »

Yes. We have three in our house, and all are older CRTs that do not have the new fangled digital tuners.
Yes but whatever box you are using to receive your signal does the conversion to normal SD video (cable, sat, IP) or you wouldn't be able to see it on those older crt sets. 
-You don't by any chance have those first generation crt-based HDTV sets? (flat-front glass or 3-tube rear-projection) They are the only ones I know of that could receive the OTA broadcasts nowadays without a converter box.

I have a standard-def Dish receiver in one house that is cropping things like the original poster described.  I think it has something to do with the down conversion of a 16:9 HD feed to a 4:3 TV.  It letterboxes automatically but the cropping still isn't right -and it looks bad when plugged into a newer TV as it get's double-stretched. 
I Don't use it enough to upgrade, amazed it still works and Dish hasn't forced an upgrade -checked the back of the box and it still uses ch3-4 RF modulation to hook up.
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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2014, 11:29:49 PM »

Do people still have regular 4:3 TVs?
i have a 2004 36" square screen sony wega 1080 hd tv. awsome picture. i'll use it untill it quits. 
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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2014, 09:56:58 AM »

...all of North American broadcast is done in NTSC.

Nope, all or virtually all of the digital broadcast is ATSC which has replaced NTSC.

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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2014, 11:26:15 AM »

Tommy, what OTA tuner do you use?
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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2014, 02:05:11 PM »

The other day I was playing a DVD. The video was originally filmed in widescreen, but reformatted for 4:3 with letterboxes at top and bottom. Playback on widescreen resulted in a fairly wide letterbox all the way around the screen, and neither the DVD player nor the computer monitor hooked up to it offered a way to crop. So I tried it with my laptop hooked up to the same screen with exactly the same results.

We gave up trying so watched it on a 24" screen with a 20" view. Just scooched a little closer to the screen.
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Re: Fox ignores NTSC viewers
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2014, 04:21:20 PM »

Tommy, what OTA tuner do you use?

Sorry Bob, just saw your post. We just use the ones in our digital TVs; nothing fancy. We've got a 25(or so) inch CRT Sanyo DTV in the living room and a 40in Emerson LCD in my room hooked up(splitter in the attic with coax feeding each TV) to our antenna which is on a 50 or 60 ft tower with rotor and booster. We pick up around 50 channels(I think) OTA with the setup; most are from the Dallas area and the rest are more local(Tyler/Longview) and some of those are useless to us as they are in spanish. We get Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, and a bunch of odd other channels. Many DTV channels have multiple channels on one station(as in 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, etc...) at least one we get has something like 6 sub-channels. Between the OTA and what I can stream over the internet from Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, and the network websites I get plenty of TV for less that what satellite would cost.
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