[VMPhil]

When Comedy Central UK used to show Frasier, they had an HD version of Frasier season 10 but it required a lot of cropping of the original image.

As James said season 11 was proper 16:9 HD and the 4:3 versions were centre-cut outs of this.

Back then the SD and HD versions of Comedy Central had split playout so you could actually switch between the two and compare, as the SD channel showed the 4:3 copies and the HD channel had the 16:9 copies.

The later seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond were also made in 16:9 HD at the time. Annoyingly Channel 4 only ever had the 4:3 cut out versions (think they still do). A bizarre decision was that they put all the opening cast/crew credits outside of the 16:9 safe area. This meant when they made the 4:3 cut out versions, they simply shifted the frame all the way to the left, so it looks really off for the first 5 minutes of every episode.

Again Comedy Central did the same thing and showed the 4:3 versions on the SD channel and the 16:9 versions on the HD channel where you could easily see the differences in framing.

A few years ago they went back and remastered the earlier seasons of Raymond to be 16:9 HD too, you can get them on iTunes etc.