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Personally i hate it when they do this. Leave it as it was filmed. Don't stretch or crop the image to suit modern TVs. TVs are so big now anyway you'd still get a big picture, anyway.
If they did it with Columbo, i'd be very angry and not watch it/buy it.
I take it they're only doing this because in general people wouldn't understand why there were black bars on either side of the screen to make the square and would complain about it?
Oh wait, but how on the MASH image is it wider? Was it shot on film and masked off for TV or something? and this is simply a different masking or whatever you'd call it?
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A shame really. Thankfully, the DVDs are reasonably good.
In other news, Hello again Mr. Sarge. I only met you the one time in L.A. back in 2011, but to this day I am reminded - as I remind my friends - of what a great fellow you are. 
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I've been watching the current run of "Perry Mason" on the MeTV channel in my area. All the episodes are cropped for widescreen TVs, but none of them look poorly framed to me that way. It seems like a preposterous notion, but I wonder if many older television series were possibly framed by their cinematographers to look acceptable in some future widescreen format.
I notice that they've moved the position of the clock in that MASH frame to accommodate the cropping.
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I believe Lost In Space was filmed in a wider aspect ratio. I though I read you could see set equipment in the frames before it was cropped for television.
That seems silly. I don't know why you would film it in ratio in which it could never be shown, without revealing extraneous image.
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The old one looks clearer than the HD one, too.
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Ugh. I hate when they do this. It was never intended to look this way. Home video releases are getting stupid too. Freaks & Geeks is available on Blu-ray, but it's double the price it should be since you're buying two versions in the set: one is 1.33:1 and the other is 1.78:1. Again, it was never intended to be seen that way. I'm thrilled they knew there would be hell to pay if it was done to Star Trek.
According to the show runner, Freaks was shot widescreen but broadcast 4:3.
But for shows that were not shot wide and are then cropped for widescreen TVs, haaate it. Who would have thought years ago when I was griping about widescreen films being panned and scanned that I would in the future be griping about 4:3 shows being hacked.
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What is ironic and especially maddening is EVERYBOPDY WATCHES EVERYTHING in 16:9 anyway!
Even standard 1;33 shows . People just hit zoom/stretch/full screen.
damn you! damn you all to hell!
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Ugh. I hate when they do this. It was never intended to look this way. Home video releases are getting stupid too. Freaks & Geeks is available on Blu-ray, but it's double the price it should be since you're buying two versions in the set: one is 1.33:1 and the other is 1.78:1. Again, it was never intended to be seen that way. I'm thrilled they knew there would be hell to pay if it was done to Star Trek.
According to the show runner, Freaks was shot widescreen but broadcast 4:3.
But for shows that were not shot wide and are then cropped for widescreen TVs, haaate it. Who would have thought years ago when I was griping about widescreen films being panned and scanned that I would in the future be griping about 4:3 shows being hacked.
Documentaries are the worst.
Cant bare to watch ;em anymore.
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