Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/11/08 03:39

Richard C. wrote:

> "Walter Traprock" <wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:wetraprock-D35C7F.10463010012008@newsgroups.comcast.net...
>
>>
>> By the way, the most SEVERE picture problem with
>> "home" (as well as office, stores, mechanics,
>> restaurants, etc.,) video is not lack of pixels,
>> but the presentation of 1.33 content as 1.77 ratio
>> in widescreen TV sets. The pictorial result is so
>> "bent", so warped, so squished, it is just
>> intolerable. And since old TV and old movies aren't
>> going to disappear anytime soon, the problem is
>> scheduled to remain.
>>
> ==============================
> Strange....I have no problem on my widescreen set.
> When I watch 1.33 it remains 1.33

Depends on whether he's referring to the set or to the video player:

If it's the set, um, try converting the settings.
If it's video, some players can't convert, and automatically stretch
everything shown in 480i into widescreen...
While other players, such as Sony's, already plan or have settings to
switch back and forth between, say, old movies with widescreen DVD menus.

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net

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