I was watching the live finale of Celebrity Big Brother last night at my girlfriend's house. She still uses a Motorola DCT2500 set-top box. Anyways, the program was being shown in a 4:3 "center-cut" format rather than being letterboxed. As a result, what you would usually see on the left and right edges of an HDTV were "lost". It resulted in some content not being shown on screen (see images).
Is Comcast to blame here, or is it the local affiliate (WBZ, which IS a CBS owned-and-operated station)? My girlfriend is paying for cable TV and visual content on this channel is constantly being chopped off.
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