Video Asylum

Posted by 6 meters DX on November 17, 2003 at 11:14:41

In Reply to: Is it advisable to go with WIDESCREEN as opposed to conventional 4:3 bigscreen? posted by 6 meters DX on November 16, 2003 at 16:42:04:

I took all your comments into consideration. Thanks. Considering there were about 30 rear projection Widesceen TV's and just 2 4:3 units at the electronics retail store, this had an impact on our decision. As did your comments about more TV programming increasingly being released in widescreen formats. Bottom line is we went with the 'Hitachi 51G500', rather than the Sony mentioned in my previous post. The Hitachi picture seemed more detailed and 'film-like', and the 'stretched' 4:3 images on widescreen seemed a lot more naturally proportioned and normal looking on the Hitachi. And we lucked out, given a good freind of the family works there as a Senior Sales Associate! He gave us the $1999 Hitachi for $1499, which was a steal! Either way, my father-in-law will probably 'poop his pants' when he sees his digital satellite cable images on the Hitachi, as opposed to the ancient TV he is replacing, mainly an old RCA 27" console TV from the late 1980's!!! In fact, I myself am a bit upset at my 2001 decision to purchase a 53" Sony digital 4:3 bigscreen TV, which is excellent, and works great, but is NOT widescreen. Oh well. I'll just have to contend with black bars when I watch DVD's and other widescreen programming.