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In Reply to: If you're not a Videophile posted by johnvb on February 28, 2006 at 17:26:05:
I do not expect to be seeing the titles I would want to watch, in HD for long, long, long time. And then some. We too rent three to four movies a week, and I know full well they will not be on HD.If they do, that will be fine with me. One night there was The Sounds of Music on cable in HD, and I watched it for a while... it was... well... nice...
Speaking of large screen TV's... most people who buy them do so because of their size and flatness, not because they play HD.
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...big widescreen sets will leave the damn things on that stretch mode all the freaking time even though over 95% of all programming is still in 4x3 mode. I hate that stretched and smushed picture.
There is really no simple answer to stretch mode. Staring at sidebars ain't too pretty either. On our Pioneer plasma, where we usualy watch the normal cable channels, I ended up selecting one mode, don't recall which one. Out of four or five modes that one gives least obnoxious distortion, at the price of cropping the picture top and bottom just a bit. Overall I prefer this to grey side bars.
Worlds are colliding!
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