[Thomas Gilmer]

I want to feed sports footage in DV16:9 at an uplink facility that can only send a standard def signal. Stations across the country will have access to the feed. As I understand, some stations across the
country transmit an HD signal, others standard def.
Will the DV16:9 footage I shoot appear as a 16:9 aspect ratio that reaches to the left and the right edge of the home viewer’s TV Screen, whether they are watching an HD or SD television in their home .

Have I already lost you? Essentially I want the viewer to have an image that fills the screen as much as possible whether they are watching an HD or SD television. I don’t want to have the image appear
on their TV set as a 16:9 aspect ratio with black edges not only on the top and bottom but on the left and right sides as well. I realize it’s out of my hands once I feed it. Should I just feed a SD 4×3 image
and play it safe?

I don’t have a handle on the intricacies of the uplink/downlink and station to viewer process with
the variables of 3×4/16:9 aspect ratios, HD/SD etc.

It’s a shame that I’m shooting with the XDcam HD and downconverting to DV for the limitations of the
feed facility, but it is what it is. So I could just send a DV 3:4 image on the bird and be done with it,
but that 16:9 image looks so good even though it’s a standard def DV image.
I just don’t want to be shooting myself in the foot since I don’t understand the variables in the
transmission process.
thanks
tom