Posted by moviePig on 12/02/06 18:15

Walter Traprock wrote:
> 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.
>
> Go for flat screen, in Academy ratio as it's now possible.

Might make sense *if* your set's to be used only for 4:3 movies. For
the rest of us, though, 16:9's a reasonable compromise (between 1.85:1
and 2:35:1)... with 4:3 getting shortest shrift, which is justifiable
considering that older movies generally have coarser resolution to
begin with, and thus won't suffer as much, percentage-wise, in a
reduced raster-portion.

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