Posted by moviePig on 12/03/06 03:45

Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:35:43 -0800, Walter Traprock
> <wetraprock@hotmail.com> 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.
>
> But for some reason when you watch regular TV shows in HDTVs at
> restaurants and stores, it's almost always distorted.

I'll float an outright guess: Those are cheap (merely) digital
widescreen-sets, with conversion flexibility that's cumbersome at best.

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