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Originally Posted by jmetal88
The picture seems to be stretched more at the sides than at the center!
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That mode is often called "panoramic" or similar, on widescreen displays that offer it.
The sooner we can kill all of these awful "fill up the screen with picture content" abominations in all of their forms, the better. Video programs, as well as movies, have been made in multiple aspect ratios, and they should be left alone, plain and simple. Altering them makes no more sense than to go to the Louvre, or Chicago's Art Institute, and chop up every picture on display so that they fit into one frame shape.
It is bad enough to use controls on a display device to mangle the video; it is ten times worse to do so at the network itself and leave the viewers no way to fix it in most cases.