Video Asylum

Posted by inmate on October 27, 2002 at 06:14:48

In Reply to: 30" Wide Screen vs 32" 4:3 ? posted by kyzyltuva on October 25, 2002 at 13:20:37:

If you go to:
http://www.widescreen.org/aspect_ratios.shtml
you'll find that 16:9 (1.78:1) is not really
a common film format anyway, so EVEN a wide
screen TV will have letterboxing for most
films. Most epics are even greater than 2:1.
I don't know what the burn-in problems would
be on CRTs.