Posted by Sean O'Hara on 12/03/06 16:00

In the Year of the Dog, the Great and Powerful moviePig declared:
>
> 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,

Note though that they make SD sets with 4:3 screens that can display
16:9 material at full resolution.

> 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.
>

Even grainy old films have higher "resolution" than an HDTV.

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