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    Starz HD meltdown Saturday night

    Somebody had to have been asleep in Master Control last night because during the Starz premiere of "Bridge To Terabithia," the movie suddenly started running backwards, then went to black for SEVERAL MINUTES before somebody on The Red Phone got them to switch to a standard-definition filler of...
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    Why does FOX pillar-box HD shows?

    it's not the datastream The closed-captioning datastream is the series of flashing white dots & dashes at the very top of the frame, when viewed in underscan. What I'm seeing in a horizontal slice just below it is actual video from the full width of the 16-by-9 frame, video whose motion is...
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    Why does FOX pillar-box HD shows?

    but why wide what's on the sides? They may be upconverts, dfergie, but I'm seeing a sliver of the full widescreen picture at the top of the screen (just below the closed-captioning data), which means whatever FOX is concealing with pillar boxes is a full 16-by-9 image. An image that's not...
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    Why does FOX pillar-box HD shows?

    :confused: Watching certain FOX shows like "Mad TV" or "The Simpsons," I can clearly see a sliver of the full 16-by-9 frame at the top of my LCD screen, below which are black pillar boxes on the left and right edges of the screen, reducing the frame to 4-by-3. My local FOX affiliate's "bug"...