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TheDon · 23-12-2009, 20:08

Best get unused to it as the more HD channels the less stretching of 4:3 as the black bars are part of the signal then!

I really don't see the logic in the "taking advantage of my full TV screen" argument. You take advantage by distorting a picture? Would you pay to go into a cinema and have the screen half the height it should be? So you're watching the latest holywood blockbuster with fat midget clones of the real actors? I bet you'd be asking for a refund!

Stretching content to fill the screen would be like the Louvre going "we've got the mona lisa in the middle of that wall... but if we stretched it sidewards it'd fill the wall!" the voice of reason would pop up and go "but, that'd distort the picture!" only to be silenced by the gallery director claim "I prefere taking advantage of my full wall space!"

Maybe I'm different in that I actually like to watch what was actually intended, and not some distorted version with supersized actors. My brain just doesn't let me watch something where round things are no longer round.

23-12-2009, 20:08	#14
TheDon Inactive Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,567	Re: Today's the day.......... Best get unused to it as the more HD channels the less stretching of 4:3 as the black bars are part of the signal then! I really don't see the logic in the "taking advantage of my full TV screen" argument. You take advantage by distorting a picture? Would you pay to go into a cinema and have the screen half the height it should be? So you're watching the latest holywood blockbuster with fat midget clones of the real actors? I bet you'd be asking for a refund! Stretching content to fill the screen would be like the Louvre going "we've got the mona lisa in the middle of that wall... but if we stretched it sidewards it'd fill the wall!" the voice of reason would pop up and go "but, that'd distort the picture!" only to be silenced by the gallery director claim "I prefere taking advantage of my full wall space!" Maybe I'm different in that I actually like to watch what was actually intended, and not some distorted version with supersized actors. My brain just doesn't let me watch something where round things are no longer round.