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Old 7th Feb 2019, 7:51 pm   #18
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Default Re: Aspect ratio

Nick, your problem with Youtube 4:3 material is that the digital stream isn't using the native 4:3 AR but is displaying a pillarboxed 4:3 image in a 16:9 frame. As I said earlier, this looks *awful* on 4:3 TVs and there isn't much you can do about it given the standard AR manipulations available. As I said earlier, it's become an increasing problem as broadcasters have avoided the additional costs of AR switching and just broadcast 4:3 as pillarboxed 16:9.
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