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Posted by Keeper of the Purple Twilight on 11/15/05 23:25
In article <MPG.1de417c730bafa8098976e@newsgroups.comcast.net>, Andrew
Rossmann <andysnewsreply@no_junk.comcast.net> wrote:
> In article <151120051205364958%no@spam.invalid>, no@spam.invalid says...
> > In article <4379EF9F.4080401@optonline.net>, Evelyn C. Leeper
> > <eleeper@optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I had wondered about how widescreen TVs handled
> > > 1.33:1 aspect ratios--I hadn't realized they auto-switched.
> >
> > What TVs do that? I've never heard of such a thing.
>
> I think most newer TV's, whether widescreen or not, will auto-switch.
> It may also depend on the 'level' of the TV. Entry level or smaller TV's
> may require manual switching.
Maybe the reason I'm in the dark about this is because I use a cable
box/DVR. I don't use the TV's tuner at all. And the box does
auto-switch, but I never tell it to; I watch 1.33:1 material stretched,
all the time. Because I don't want to ruin my TV with burn-in. I did
that to the last one...
--
"No urban night is like the night [in NYC]...here is our poetry, for we have
pulled down the stars to our will."
- Ezra Pound, poet and critic, 9/18/1912, reflecting on New York City
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