FAT People on Widescreen TV

[space-time]

Like obesity wasn't enough of a problem in real life, most of the time I see a 16:9 TV, the image is stretched so that normal people appear obese, so obese people look even worse.

[Grateful11]

Try another setting. My Sony does an excellent job of widening 4:3 shows
It only stretches the sides, most shows are shot with the action going
on in the center. The only channels it really noticeable is like financial
channels where something is scrolling across the screen. Some sets
do a lousy job of this. Yes I know it's distorting the original image to
a degree. Bring this up over at AVSForum and man you'll have a fight
on your hands. Personally I prefer the screen being filled up and my
Sony 50" A10 Rear LCD Projection makes it nearly seamless. I'm now
on my second bulb, installed it myself, bought it off eBay made it look
new again.

[space-time]

I don't have a wide screen TV (yet). I just notice what I see in hotels, waiting areas, etc.

[Doc]

On my aunt's widescreen tv, I set the aspect ratio to "auto" which scales 4:3 images up, but leaves space on either side.

She had me set it back to "wide."

She doesn't like wasted screen space.

[bazookaman]

ugh.

i cannot stand that. if its 4:3 i watch it in 4:3. If its 16:9 I watch it in 16:9

[olnacl]

bazookaman wrote:
ugh.

i cannot stand that. if its 4:3 i watch it in 4:3. If its 16:9 I watch it in 16:9

Ditto! Except a friend just purchased a Sammy 42" LCD and the user manual says not to watch anything letterboxed. My Sony is 4 years old and more than half the programs I watch are letterboxed. So far, no problems and I figure it doesn't owe me anything now anyway. I can't believe Samsung would "force" the user to stretch every 4x3 channel!

[AAA]

this is the 21st century. there should be no image distortion. period. crappy engineers and settling consumers.

[Grateful11]

bazookaman wrote:
ugh.

i cannot stand that. if its 4:3 i watch it in 4:3. If its 16:9 I watch it in 16:9

Like they say to each his own. I prefer it my way, I'm serious when I say it's really quite seamless. Most people would never know it on my set
unless there's something scrolling across the screen.

[Don Kiyoti]

olnacl wrote:
[quote=bazookaman]
ugh.

i cannot stand that. if its 4:3 i watch it in 4:3. If its 16:9 I watch it in 16:9

Ditto! Except a friend just purchased a Sammy 42" LCD and the user manual says not to watch anything letterboxed. My Sony is 4 years old and more than half the programs I watch are letterboxed. So far, no problems and I figure it doesn't owe me anything now anyway. I can't believe Samsung would "force" the user to stretch every 4x3 channel!
The manual for my Samsung LCD doesn't say that at all. It says, " Watching the LCD TV in 4:3 format for a long period of time may leave traces of borders displayed on the left, right and center of the screen caused by the difference of light emission on the screen."

AAA, I think you should find one of these "crappy engineers" and let him explain to you why you can't stretch a 4:3 image on the fly without any distortion. Then, you can explain to him how it CAN be done.

[ka jowct]

ugh.

i cannot stand that. if its 4:3 i watch it in 4:3. If its 16:9 I watch it in 16:9


I've seen a number of TVs that are set to 16:9 only, and the 4:3 programs look lousy. I realize a lot of people are visually oblivious, but how the heck can they not notice this?