Re: Wide Screen not wide enough?

"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Freda (fredapain@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote in alt.video.dvd:

I'm not on about the pixel count, as that rarely equates to 16:9 on
plasmas,
and isn't really an accurate guide, I'm on about the physical aspect
ratio
of quite a few LCDs that were being manufactured (I'm talking about the
>> European market here).

Yes, I know that there were 14:9 sets for Europe. They may have had
a 15:9 screen with no actual pixels at the sides, but the viewable area
was 14:9.


No, these LCD sets had both a viewable and physical ratio of 15:9.


The TVs I am on about were on sale about 1 or 2
years
ago, I spent a lot of time calculating the physical aspect ratios of many
LCDs at the time, and discounted several from my shortlist of potential
TVs
due to their 15:9 aspect ratio, which was as much a surprise to me as it
was
to the TV dealers that I informed of this situation. I even did a
physical
check on the screen dimensions of a few of these suspect LCDs, just to
confirm that these supposedly 'widescreen' TVs weren't actually 16:9
ratio.

So, you don't remember *anything* about any of these supposed TVs so that
you can look them up on Google.


Why should I, these were the ones that I discounted, not the ones I was
interested in.


I don't think they would completely
disappear in just two years.


Probably not, but seeing as I dismissed them immediately as sham widescreen
TVs, why would I want to remember them?


Yeah, I'm pretty sceptical.


Ce la vie!


.

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