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In Reply to: RE: Help! Any manufacturers out there? posted by vinyl survivor on March 20, 2011 at 12:53:13
That is generally a setup option on the TV or the cable box and the blame for a distorted display of this sort lies with the operator, not the manufacturers.
Kal
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Don't give people the option.
One case - At a relative's house I pointed it out and they did not want the black space on the sides so they left it in stretch mode. I refuse to watch TV at their house. Also it is a PIA to change viewing modes with this TV as you have to go into the menu options. It should be as easy as touching a button on the remote. FYI - Vizio TV
Second case - I installed a wide screen TV mounting it to the wall (also installed cable and power behind the TV) at a friend's house. This TV gave NO option to view broadcasts as standard picture. It only offered stretch mode. FYI - another Vizio TV
As stated above, I have been to numerous restaurants and bars with the same issue. It is frustrating to watch a distorted picture and the owner of the TV either does not care or does not know any better.
Scott
PS I enjoy your writing in Stereophile!
Instead of the manufacturers, you need to take it up with the old school jackasses in the broadcasting industry. We moved into "the widescreen age" in 1950s. Yes, 19 F-ing 50s. That's when the movie industry decided to go with a wider aspect ratio for their presentations. So in order to fix your problem, it's really the broadcast people who need to get with it and distribute their transmissions in a widescreen aspect ratio (specifically 16x9, due to that assinine ratio being chosen for widescreen displays).
When they did the switch to HD it would have made sense to ALSO begin broadcasting at a 16X9 ratio. Where were the industry leaders to make this happen?
When the analog broadcast signals were turned off and the switch to digital began, they should have switched to the 16x9 aspect ration for broadcasts (call it a 2 for 1). My guess is that many of them still use 4x3 video cameras and were/are in no hurry to upgrade these $20k+ oldies to 16x9 models.
All of the displays in my house will allow 4x3 content to be displayed in the 4x3 aspect ratio (ie; no stretching, if that's what you want). That's 3 plasmas and 2 LCD displays, none of which are made by the same company.
Avoiding burn-in (plasma) and brown-in (LCD). A plasma display, even today's models, will get burn-in if the display is only used for 4x3 content. An LCD display, despite what most uninformed people believe, will get brown-in if the display is only used to display 4x3 content.
There are (close to) 4x3 LCD displays, but they are, relatively speaking, small and are best suited for use as a computer monitor. There was a company (can't remember the manufacturer) that made a 42" plasma display that had a 4x3 aspect ratio. That was years ago and I haven't seen it advertised since then.
I wish we could make a push for ALL broadcasts in the 16X9 format, but as they say, LOL. Any TV I purchase MUST be able to keep the 4X3 format to fill the screen by cropping the top and bottom, NOT streching it to fit the screen.
I don't even accept the top/bottom cropping. None of my more recent 16x9 TVs do that unless you choose it... I do have an old Sony that crops several rows of 4:3 pixels top/bottom, uncontrollably by me, just enough to annoy me with old movies lol; in those days it was less unacceptable on a WS display.
One thing though: if a few rows top/bottom aren't cropped, in some 4:3 digital TV broadcasts you can see some "junk" up/down there. I was told why, but forget... Many TVs (like my main one) have a slightly less optimal viewing mode that will cut them off and not do much other harm, good enough for a typical TV broadcast (after all, the best are 1080i 16x9 anyway).
There are extra lines in video that serve as a home for such things as: synchronization, vertical retrace, closed captioning data and some timecode material. Unless you are in the industry and make use out of it, a non-technical term for such things could probably be "non-picture crap".
:-)
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