Re: Selecting an HDTV

Sam wrote:
On 17 Apr 2008 02:08:33 GMT, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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.

I'm with you. I would much rather watch 4:3 material as it was meant
to be. I have lots of legacy DVDs which I plan to watch on a 16:9
HDTV. Can it do any harm to the TV?


I think there's been anecdotal evidence of viewable display anomalies where some areas of the screen become "weak" when the entire screen hasn't been used much. IIRC, plasma was accused of this, but that may no longer be an issue with improved technology. I have LCD so I'm not really concerned.

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