Posted by Justin on 09/09/06 21:39

aloha.kakuikanu wrote on [9 Sep 2006 14:24:25 -0700]:
> 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.

Letterbox is not an aspect ratio. You are watching the content, not the
delivery system.

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