Re: Selecting an HDTV

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:33:17 GMT WGD <wgd.roaming@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| 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.

I've seen it called "Panoramic". I hate it. I would much rather put 4:3
in pillarbox and get the right aspect ratio everywhere. Different people
like different things. I just hope a TV station/network never turns a 4:3
program into such a think in HD transmission as that would be hard to undo.


| 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.

Bring your own DVD. Ask to see how well it displays. Be sure they use a
standard DVD player, not a BR or an upconverting one.


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

Ignorance and confusion reins there, as well as their competitors.


| 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.

When one has been watching HD all evening, then watches the news in SD, it
could like "fuzzy". People will tune to the station with the HD news.


| 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.

And whose fault did he say it was? These stores need to set up displays
that emulate an in-home environment.


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

Probably nowhere. Ask about the thinking of the retailers and sales people.

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