I am happy to announce that the way we have been broadcasting some shows (a picture surrounded by black bars) has been addressed by the television community and now we will be able to automatically broadcast shows the way the producers of the show meant it to be viewed. What?
A few posts ago I mentioned AFD, or Automatic Format Descriptor, data embedded in the video signal that tells other devices how to present a picture on your screen...or in this case what format we at the station should record the show.
What this means is the end to the dreaded "postage stamp" video we have been showing on our channel since February. Though it may take some time to purge all the shows that have been recorded this way prior to this change, we are on the way to giving you the picture the way it is meant to be shown. I expect some ironing out of the system to occur in the next week or so, but it's a start!
Now for that pesky audio problem...you're next!
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