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In Reply to: Any info on Sony's 40" tube ? posted by flop on February 27, 2001 at 16:20:46:
Hmmm let me see if I can talk you out of a 4:3 set! Here is a simpe experiment: Take one hand and place it on you forehead as if you were giving a salute. Place the other hand on your chin. Now, gradually move your hands apart while looking a fixed spot a few feet away. Now move you hands apart while keeping your head level. Notice how quickly you hands move out of view. Now try the same thing but this time with you hands cupping your ears. Move your hands apart. I think you will find that even very far apart you can still see your hands. This will tell you about the "shape" of human eyesight. We see more on a horizontal plane than a virtual plane. 4:3 is an unnatural aspect ratio. Well if you decide to buy anyway, don't say that I did not tell you, lol!
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Surely we all know that human vision has a wider "aspect ratio" than standard 4:3 TV, but most programming is for a 4:3 TV these days. When you consider a 40" TV would give you the same real estate as a 34" tube HDTV for widescreen movies, it becomes a no brainer to get the larger 40" version because you GAIN back the missing space for your 4:3 programming.I can live with the black bars, considering what I get back for normal TV programming.
Remember when big televisions were like furniture and came in consoles. Looks very outdated doesn't it. In a few years, that's the way 4:3 sets are going to look.
True, but my video tape collection will stay in 4:3 ratio for decades. No changing that. And my camcorder with my kids videos are also in 4:3, no changing that.So I guess the question is-- Do you want the black bars now on DVD's, or black horizontal bars on all previous recorded tapes on an HDTV? Even that last part doesn't change in the future.
HDTV's and regular TV's can all be the same width, but regular TV's will always be taller, and thus have more real estate space. I'd take the latter, assuming the 4:3 I am referring to can handle quality HDTV signals as well. Currently, that would be a Sony XBR400 for my living room. HDTV or not, I still don't like the picture quality of a projection.
I need a morphing TV!
Robert
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