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Reason to strangle Best Buy salesmen #999

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In Reply to: Aspect ratio horrors posted by Steve Schell on September 4, 2005 at 08:38:59:

Yes, this is common in some widescreen TV stores.
The idea that they would take a regular aspect ratio TV broadcast, and stretch it to make it fill a widescreen, when you can clearly see that people's faces are stretched as in a funhouse mirror; all the while presenting it as some sort of improvement over the option of wearing some sort of Crazy Goggles...just staggers the mind! Or am I just "golden eyed"? Don't people realize what they are looking at?!?!

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Re: Reason to strangle Best Buy salesmen #999 - Steve Schell 13:38:39 09/11/05 (0)
Ben, if you are "golden eyed" then that makes two of us. I am really bothered by aspect ratio errors- even 1950 era round picture tube sets didn't do that to the image.
It's starting to look like we are in the era of the stretched image; I see it all over the place. Hopefully this will be worked out in time, as most source material becomes 16:9. It is funny though how most people seem not to even notice this gross distortion.
Sears salesperson thought tv's 16:9 w/bottom mounted speakers were all 4:3 ! - FF 12:22:22 09/10/05 (0)
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