[jmetal88]

I've been really annoyed by the Cartoon Network feed from my cable company lately. I don't know if it's the network or the station (EDIT: Err, I meant cable company) that's doing this, but all the programming has been stretched to 16:9 format. Yes, stretched. Not cropped or letterboxed, but stretched. The native 16:9 programming looks fine, but anything that should have been aired in 4:3 looks just awful. I still watch everything on an analog CRT, and I can't figure out any way to correct it. If there are any analog cable boxes out there with aspect ratio controls, I'd love to know about it. I bought an RCA 'media recorder' somewhat by accident at a pawn shop the other day, so I was hoping it would have aspect ratio controls when I figured out what it actually was, but if it does, I can't find them (of course not having the original remote doesn't help, either).