As I'm sure it's been pointed out before, this is pretty cool, but while solving one problem, it just creates another. Obviously, it would get rid of the black bars that appear on HDTVs when watching most widescreen movies (though, not all of them), but it would create the black bars on the side for some movies and all regular HD broadcasting (even watching a movie on HBO would have bars on the side since they adjust their content to air in the 16:9 format).
It's funny because most of us thought we were ending the black bars when we switched from a 4:3 TV to a 16:9 one. The sad truth is that the black bars will never, ever go away.
This TV would be great in a home theater used just for movies, but if you have the money for that extra setup, wouldn't you maybe want something bigger? I just can't see this replacing anyone's main TV in the living room if the problem is the black bars, since this would obviously make everything else worse.
“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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As I'm sure it's been pointed out before, this is pretty cool, but while solving one problem, it just creates another. Obviously, it would get rid of the black bars that appear on HDTVs when watching most widescreen movies (though, not all of them), but it would create the black bars on the side for some movies and all regular HD broadcasting (even watching a movie on HBO would have bars on the side since they adjust their content to air in the 16:9 format).
It's funny because most of us thought we were ending the black bars when we switched from a 4:3 TV to a 16:9 one. The sad truth is that the black bars will never, ever go away.
This TV would be great in a home theater used just for movies, but if you have the money for that extra setup, wouldn't you maybe want something bigger? I just can't see this replacing anyone's main TV in the living room if the problem is the black bars, since this would obviously make everything else worse.