A lot of people here are very reluctant to give up 4:3. If I had a nickel for every time a customer tells me they'd rather have a 4:3 set to see the top of the picture rather than see out wide but lose the tops of peoples heads, I'd have a lot of nickels.
** For those of you that have stumbled upon the page and don't know 16:9 doesn't crop the top and bottom, but 4:3 does as well as the sides. Also you're not losing anything in the black bars, and I mean anything. Black bars aka "letterboxing" occurs when the video/film was shot in a different aspect ratio than the screen you're watching it on, nothing as "chopped off".
“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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About time!
the rest of the world except the US has had widescreen TV for 11 years now and widescreen camcorders for even longer!
A lot of people here are very reluctant to give up 4:3. If I had a nickel for every time a customer tells me they'd rather have a 4:3 set to see the top of the picture rather than see out wide but lose the tops of peoples heads, I'd have a lot of nickels.
** For those of you that have stumbled upon the page and don't know 16:9 doesn't crop the top and bottom, but 4:3 does as well as the sides. Also you're not losing anything in the black bars, and I mean anything. Black bars aka "letterboxing" occurs when the video/film was shot in a different aspect ratio than the screen you're watching it on, nothing as "chopped off".