[geeks] An annoyance...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Jonathan Katz wrote:

> Many hotel rooms now have nice widescreen TVs, except they're all fed 
> normal SD crap (4:3 format) and are setup to "stretch" to 16:9, causing 
> all kinds of ugly distortion. Of course, the TVs are locked down so you 
> can't fix this, meanwhile everything looks... funny (fatter people, 
> buildings, roads, etc.)
> 
> -Jon

Invest in a universal remote and bring along the little booklet that 
lets you set it up to control almost any kind of TV.

--Patrick