Selecting an HDTV

I visited Circuit City's store here in Sarasota this afternoon - serious
interest in a 46" display (cause that is what the cavity will accommodate).

ALL displays were "tuned" to an HD channel piped down COMCAST's cable.

NONE of the displays could be switched to a standard 4:3 NTSC image.

As you all know (just repeating to clarify my thoughts) good TVs have means
to stretch a 4:3 to 16:9 as does our Panasonic 32". The stretch is not
linear - circle in the center is round, circles at right and left will be
slightly "egg" shaped. Thus center of the screen faces look good.
Pasnasonic calls this their Justify mode. Thus viewing 4:3 TV programming
is not hard to accept.

Back to Circuit City. I am not about to plop down $1,800 - $2,500 for a 46"
display without first seeing how the mnfr handles upconversion, let alone
fitting a 4:3 in a 16:9 space.

Am I wrong? And/or is Circuit City not thinking clearly? Or are they
purposely staying away from showing a 4:3?

Yes, they and probably likewise for Best Buy down the street, are pushing
Comcast. For this writer, I see little advantage to HDTV programming - do
I really want, need to watch WFLA, channel 10 news in HD? - when Good DVDs
(NOT Blu-Ray) are available and keep my screen popping for a fair number of
evening and weekend hours.

BTW, the salesman told me that a fair number of TVs come back 'cause once
home, they do not look like what they did in the store. LOL NO one should
be surprised at this.

Pls, where has my thinking gone astray? Tear the above apart - open to
thinking outside of the rock I may be under.

Wayne




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