Originally Posted By: tfabris
Originally Posted By: gbeer
Since they seem to be here for good, why is it, when a show is broadcast letterboxed, that they still must put the bugs on the image and not in the blank areas?

Because many letterbox broadcasts are simulcast in high-def 16:9 on a different channel. And/or the broadcasters know that some TV's let you zoom in on a letterboxed image. In both cases the broadcasters want their bugs on the screen.

Except that most of the time when I see a bug obscuring a letterboxed TV show, it sits half-in, half-out of the black bar at the bottom.
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