[geeks] An annoyance...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 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.

Does that work on a locked-down TV?

Peace...  Sridhar