I can't believe some people are so delusional regarding STREEEEEEEEETCHING.
I'm picky about something else: TV's that slightly oh, ever so slightly horizontally stretch 4:3 content. I'm not talking about stretching all the way to 16:9- I'm talking about the tv's that have it set in their minds that 4:3 is a little FAT horizontally. You can tell when watching basketball- If the basketball's not perfectly round, aspect ratio is wrong. Sure, your tv might be in the proper aspect ratio mode- but it's simply understood that, based on my 2 hdtv purchase, my Sony CRT had perfect 4:3, while on the other hand, a 26" 16:9 Polaroid displayed 4:3 slightly, yet still noticeably, fat. It's not as annoying as stretching all the way to 16:9, but it's upsetting that the manufacturer's don't pay that much attention to picture aspect accuracy. BLeh.
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I can't believe some people are so delusional regarding STREEEEEEEEETCHING.
I'm picky about something else: TV's that slightly oh, ever so slightly horizontally stretch 4:3 content. I'm not talking about stretching all the way to 16:9- I'm talking about the tv's that have it set in their minds that 4:3 is a little FAT horizontally. You can tell when watching basketball- If the basketball's not perfectly round, aspect ratio is wrong. Sure, your tv might be in the proper aspect ratio mode- but it's simply understood that, based on my 2 hdtv purchase, my Sony CRT had perfect 4:3, while on the other hand, a 26" 16:9 Polaroid displayed 4:3 slightly, yet still noticeably, fat. It's not as annoying as stretching all the way to 16:9, but it's upsetting that the manufacturer's don't pay that much attention to picture aspect accuracy. BLeh.