Posted by dgates on 12/02/06 22:25

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:19:46 -0500, "Obveeus" <Obveeus@aol.com> wrote:

>
>"telenovels" <telenovels@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Why would I want to view my rectangle-shaped videos/movies on a square
>> tv?
>>
>> That makes NO sense.
>
>I agree. However, it makes equally little sense to watch a square TV
>program in stretch-o-vision.
>
>Until they make wide screen TVs that suffer no ill effects from having
>black/grey bars on the sides during normal TV viewing, they remain a waste
>of money.

We bought a DLP and LCD 16x9 HDTVs for exactly that reason. We don't
want to stretch the 4x3 shows and we don't want to cause burn-in by
not stretching them.

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