We're not sure why he has a problem with widescreen aspect ratio and increased resolution helping you to see a bit more of the ice than you otherwise could (isn't that the point?), not to mention that the announcer was probably joking.

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This is due to the continual decrease in the costs of on-line bandwidth, improvements in content compression, the proliferation of mobile viewing devices with smaller screens (and thus lower resolution requirements) as well as increased levels of cloud storage to support download and streaming markets.

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