Re: New TV Recommendations

charles wrote:

"Regular tv", as you call it, is being phased out. In 5 years it
will have gone - unless you live in the Channel Islands. Depending
on where you live digital tv will become the only one to watch well
within the life of your set. If you buy a 4:3 set - if you can find
one - then once analogue tv goes, you will either have the sides of
the picture cut off, or have black bars top and bottom.

Well, if you don't like those two options, there's always the middle ground... (The 14:9 zoom, where you'll lose some of the picture from the sides [but not as much as with a centre cut!] and get smaller black bars on top and bottom. Or the same on a widescreen set where it is the reverse: you'll lose some of the picture from the top and bottom, and get smaller black pillars on the sides.)

I'd simply watch letterboxed 16:9 images on a 4:3 screen and pillarboxed 4:3 images on a 16:9 screen, though. (Which is actually what I'm doing whenever I'm the one who gets to set up the aspect ratio / zoom modes.)

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