Posted by WinField on 09/07/06 18:08

Justin wrote:
> Dirrtylarry@webtv.net wrote on [Wed, 6 Sep 2006 23:24:53 -0400]:
>
>>Get use to widescreen.Soon everything will be widescreen.If you had a
>>16:9 tv,the picture on the screen would look like full screen format and
>>you would be watching the dvd as it were intended to be viewed with much
>>better resolution.
>
>
> Wrong. Widescreen TV does not mean a widescreen DVD will fill the
> screen.


Good point, and one that is important for me.

I understand that lots of movies have aspect ratios that produce
pictures that are "narrower" than 16:9. However...

Ideally, I would prefer a WS-monitor/TV that could stretch the picture
vertically to eliminate the black border. Can the new generation of
wide-screens do this?

There have been quite a few weird aspect-ratios that movies have used,
and since the stretch distortion would be pretty minimal at 16:9 AND
since I'm a guy that likes using what I pay for - that's what I would want.

Up, up and away,
winfield

[Back to original message]