Posted by Mark Jones on 09/09/06 21:35

aloha.kakuikanu wrote:
> Mark Jones wrote:
>> Try getting a decent TV. I have a 65 inch widescreen HDTV
>> and a 32 inch widescreen HDTV. I have noticed that a lot of
>> stores have cut way back on the percentage of 4:3 format
>> TVs in favor of 16:9 format widescreens. The next time you
>> need to purchase a TV, widescreen may be just about all
>> there is to choose from.
>
> I have 100" projector screen. It has decent vertical dimension, so
> that 4:3 picture fills the whole view. I don't have any room to get
> wider than 100".
>
> Now with 100" diagonal size constraint, 4:3 screen has 15% more area
> than 16:9 shortscreen. I'm not even talking about letterbox which is
> ridiculously narrow.
>
> No I suggest you try to educate yourself -- wikipedia "widescreen" and
> "aspect ratio" critisism section is a good start.

I am already very familiar with it. I have no problem with
the black bars when a 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 movie is viewed
on my widescreen TVs. I want to see the entire image,
not a pan and scan or cropped image.

I would not want someone to crop one of these movies
to make it fill my 16:9 screen. Give me the movie in the
original aspect ratio.

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