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Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/03/06 03:53
moviePig wrote:
> Howard Brazee wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:35:43 -0800, Walter Traprock
>><wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Folks, you should know, there's HDTV in standard aspect ratio!
>>>
>>>There's no need for the distortion-vision of widescreen TVs!
>>>There's no need for bright gray bars to "warn" you that you're
>>>watching material in the "wrong" aspect ratio.
>>
>>But for some reason when you watch regular TV shows in HDTVs at
>>restaurants and stores, it's almost always distorted.
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>
> I'll float an outright guess: Those are cheap (merely) digital
> widescreen-sets, with conversion flexibility that's cumbersome at best.
Or sets with the monitor-setting adjusted to 16:9, with no one bothering
to tend it for normal shows.
Derek Janssen (again, we find ourselves back at the theme of "What
Walter didn't know before posting")
ejanss@comcast.net
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