Some of you may or may not be aware of anomalies that appear on the bottom of the screen concerning HBO's ' 5 Star MaxHD ' feed.
These appear as randomly generated white bars, running the approximate length of about 3 to 4 inches, dancing across the very bottom lines of screen (in my case, via my 722 via HDMi as presented on my 46" Aquos 1080p LCD) when viewed in ' dot by dot ' mode. They are present at all times no matter what the context of the media presented.
I addressed HBO engineering directly on the matter. HBO's reply, the occurrence of the anomalies are ' not to be there ' and HBO thanked me for identifying the problem and are in the process of rectifying the issue.
For those of you NOT familiar with ' dot by dot ' imaging on your HD set, it keeps the framing in the absolute original aspect of the data stream. That is to say, you'll see exactly what you're intended to see. Some of you may have your sets set up in a mode referred to as ' smart-stretch ,' etc. This mode actually blows up the picture slightly (or zooms). Subsequently, you miss some of the picture as it is zoomed in tighter than the original intent. It also causes a slight amount of detail devaluation when used in this matter (blow-up effect).
In SD days, we referred to this as the picture ' safe frame ' zone. With SD pictures, the picture was tweaked on your original set to overlap the screen frame, to zoom and exclude elements that reside on the extreme edges of the picture frame (CC: Closed Captioning, Affiliate Info, etc.).
With true HD programming, there is no need for a ' safe zone ,' that is, unless you're viewing SD content on a HD feed.
These appear as randomly generated white bars, running the approximate length of about 3 to 4 inches, dancing across the very bottom lines of screen (in my case, via my 722 via HDMi as presented on my 46" Aquos 1080p LCD) when viewed in ' dot by dot ' mode. They are present at all times no matter what the context of the media presented.
I addressed HBO engineering directly on the matter. HBO's reply, the occurrence of the anomalies are ' not to be there ' and HBO thanked me for identifying the problem and are in the process of rectifying the issue.
For those of you NOT familiar with ' dot by dot ' imaging on your HD set, it keeps the framing in the absolute original aspect of the data stream. That is to say, you'll see exactly what you're intended to see. Some of you may have your sets set up in a mode referred to as ' smart-stretch ,' etc. This mode actually blows up the picture slightly (or zooms). Subsequently, you miss some of the picture as it is zoomed in tighter than the original intent. It also causes a slight amount of detail devaluation when used in this matter (blow-up effect).
In SD days, we referred to this as the picture ' safe frame ' zone. With SD pictures, the picture was tweaked on your original set to overlap the screen frame, to zoom and exclude elements that reside on the extreme edges of the picture frame (CC: Closed Captioning, Affiliate Info, etc.).
With true HD programming, there is no need for a ' safe zone ,' that is, unless you're viewing SD content on a HD feed.
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