Video Asylum

Posted by padreken (A) on December 09, 2004 at 15:10:22

In Reply to: Me too, I hate it. posted by Hepcat on December 9, 2004 at 05:40:41:

My Hitachi 51SWX20B has 2 equally awful stretch modes-one applies a stretch to the sides of the picture to give you a nauseating funhouse mirror effect, the other applies a uniform stretch acroos the screen. The latter makes everyone look like characters in the Family Circus comic strip.

I said burn-in be damned, set my contrast and brightness below 50% percent and watched what I wanted in the proper aspect ratio. I had a tech out to service my set last week, and he pointed out the faint (but unmistakeable) lines where the 4:3 gray bars had burned in.

Back to fatheads, and here's hoping they get more hidef programming quick.