Sam Nesvoy Says: September 6th, 2007 at 1:07 am. At least the HDTVs have controls that let you choose how to handle aspect-ratio problems. The embedded (or downloadable) video players for online video don't (at least I've never seen one ..... I've been in several hotels recently with new 16:9 LCD televisions, but with 4:3 cable feeds. The irony is that the tv has an ?autodetect aspect ratio? setting which worked properly, but the power-on default was ?stretch to fit?. ...
Sam bNesvoy/b: Daniel Messing says: "As was said long ago: the constable has blundered, so the criminal must go free. It made no sense then, nor now." We do thing like this all the time, for (presumably) good reasons: The criminal is a ...