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One of my biggest Pet Peeves with Video over the last 5 years is projecting 4:3 images onto a 16:9 Screen. It seems about 98% of the population does this.
They want to 'Show' the widescreen and don't mind stretching the faces to make it happen.
Every single Electronic Retailer I have walked into over the last 5 years insists on stretching the 4:3 Image to fill the Screen. Almost every house I have walked into does the same thing. Don't they know how to use the Zoom Feature?
Does this Bug only me?Cut-Throat
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Think about the thousands upon thousands of movies and TV shows originally in 4x3. Do you think wide sreen owners will watch them in their real aspect? Hell no, maybe 99% won't bother.
I've noticed lately that funeral homes have a flat screen on the wall showing DVD montages of the deceased's pictures and his or her family's etc. The faces look fat and unreal.
Just another pet peeve of mine.
* I'm like a one-eyed cat peeping in a seafood store *
because I sit way off-centre while my wife watches her soaps (hey, it's a togetherness thing!) and she doesn't notice it at all, so it's win-win! UK digital terrestrial provides a lot of variation, so I'm constantly resetting the ratio when doing my 'serious' viewing.
I find the squashed faces quite irritating in public places, though, which is why I generally ignore it now. I once mentioned it to a bank teller who clearly thought I was someone who needed to get a life! (She may have been right.)
...or.. when they take a widescreen picture and do the vertical blackbar trick to make it fit on a 4x3 screen so that I wind up with the double vertical and horizontal blackbars on my HDTV.
why do you care?
-Wendell
Stretching a 4:3 image to 16:9 makes the Hollywood Beautiful People look chubby and under-exercised, just like the majority of their viewers. :)
That bugs the crap out of me, too! I prefer to zoom, and lose the top and bottom of the image, rather than have the distortion of stretching the image. And trying to educate the masses on how to control the aspect ratio is like pulling teeth sometimes. Is it really that hard to understand?
One of the real differences between TV sets is in the options they have for handling the stretch. Some widen only the edges of the picture and for the most part faces have very little stretch except if there is action at the very edge of screen. Check what the options look like when selecting a TV
That mode is even worse! It is like looking through a cheap wide angle lens, or the bottom of a coke bottle. Sheesh...
Ah, but their whole point is to have ZERO "black bars". You can't do that without somehow distorting the image or cutting off some of it. I guess you'd prefer to cut off some of it rather than distort it.Also, least for plasmas, it's probably a good idea when they're in torch mode in a store to at least burn out/in the whole screen area equally.
Go to "general purpose" (i.e. not enthusiast) AV sites, and you will find plenty of arguments against black bars, even when you'd think people would know better by now. The average person still really hates them much more than they like an accurate aspect ratio.
Edits: 05/08/09
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