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wide screen TVs

I have a relative that is employed at bestbuy. We are looking at widescreen TVs since they are planning on leaving within a few months. When I went there to look at them the kid in the area said that even if we get a widescreen which I believe is 16:9 many movies will still have bars on the top and bottom because so many producers have so many different ratios they like. Is this a joke? I am limited to what is sold there, is anything decent there? I heard (but it was many years ago) that the Mitsubishi's were really good. I primarily want a widescreen to watch movies on. I mean I don't mind have 4:3 television in the middle of it. I mostly watch news (I can't stand most dumb TV programming)

They don't show regular TV on them. Does it look real horrible on a big screen? How about if I want to play a PS2 game on it.... will that look horrible? Like a small jpg blown up 300%?

I saw some incredible pictures there, but there is no way (even if I could spend enough for them) I would pay that much for a monitor. Is DLP much better? I looked at plasma (I hope that is correct) but he said they are still rear projection TVs. So in short or to sum up, what is a good monitor for watching movies w/o getting a second mrg?


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Topic - wide screen TVs - Nullone 09:32:29 12/08/04 (18)


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