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Old 01-05-2013, 17:29   #958
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

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Originally Posted by passingbat View Post
I've never watched TCM2 and it's not showing anything ATM. What is the situation with the aspect ratio?
It's 4:3 stretched to widescreen as is Cartoonito. I find it hard to believe that Turner want it displayed this way when 4:3 aspect ratios are displayed correctly on TCM. It just looks as if the wrong aspect ratio flag / descriptor has been set on the stream.

It looks very odd when Cartoonito shows widescreen content in a 4:3 letterbox format which is then stretched to a 16:9 aspect ratio.

I can't say I watch either of the channels very often myself and the s-t-r-e-t-c-h vision format makes me less likely to watch.

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Originally Posted by johnasimmons View Post
A few weeks ago I emailed Universal UK about E! HD & Universal HD; here is the reply...
I think the key word there is "confirmed".