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Jeff, to answer your original question, it is likely that your cable system is converting a widescreen (16:9) channel that probably started as an HD channel, into a standard-def (and therefore 4:3, non-widescreen) signal. The only way to do this is to "letterbox" it, as you are seeing.
I have not had pay-TV since 2005, so I do not know if there are any channels that are now HD only as opposed to having HD and SD versions. (That channel itself may be formatting ts "SD" version as a letterboxed signal.)
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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