But anyway, the problem with 16x10 is that there is NO video format that is undistorted. 16x9 doesn't match everything, but at least 4x3 or cinema sizes are matted to 16x9 as a matter of course. So, yeah, hurray for 16x9.
As far as people who think black bars are stealing their pixels, and that distorting the picture is better, I vote for taking away their TVs so that the networks don't have to make so many shows for stupid people.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"ghetto-looking black bars" ???!?
But anyway, the problem with 16x10 is that there is NO video format that is undistorted. 16x9 doesn't match everything, but at least 4x3 or cinema sizes are matted to 16x9 as a matter of course. So, yeah, hurray for 16x9.
As far as people who think black bars are stealing their pixels, and that distorting the picture is better, I vote for taking away their TVs so that the networks don't have to make so many shows for stupid people.