Yeah, the design of this television is that all content is produced in its native aspect ratio.
It's not.
And this is so much of a spwill never be cheaper to buy than an equivelent quality screen of the same width, but more vertical space.
This really highlights the "black bars" fallacy: it's not that there are black bars on the screen, it's that the content doesn't fit the screen you're watching it on.
If you really can't stand black bars, there are two options: stretch and zoom.
While your at it, why don't you listen to all your music in mono, or better yet through a string and cup to your ear.
Native aspect ratio is the only way to go. Why do you want to distort your expensive blurays?
PS, 2.35 aspect ratio was around long before they decided to arbitrarily create an entirely new aspect ratio, ie 16:9. I understand they could not have forseen how ignorant a move that was and what problems it would cause, they were trying to compromise. But the world would be a much better place if they had chosen 2.35 for the hdtv standard.
And by the way, there are only two options: native aspect on a lcd/plasma with black bars that you shouldn't even be noticing if you're really watching the movie... or get a projector and use masking to maintain CIH
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Yeah, the design of this television is that all content is produced in its native aspect ratio.
It's not.
And this is so much of a spwill never be cheaper to buy than an equivelent quality screen of the same width, but more vertical space.
This really highlights the "black bars" fallacy: it's not that there are black bars on the screen, it's that the content doesn't fit the screen you're watching it on.
If you really can't stand black bars, there are two options: stretch and zoom.
"stretch and zoom"
ew,ew,ew.
While your at it, why don't you listen to all your music in mono, or better yet through a string and cup to your ear.
Native aspect ratio is the only way to go. Why do you want to distort your expensive blurays?
PS, 2.35 aspect ratio was around long before they decided to arbitrarily create an entirely new aspect ratio, ie 16:9. I understand they could not have forseen how ignorant a move that was and what problems it would cause, they were trying to compromise. But the world would be a much better place if they had chosen 2.35 for the hdtv standard.
And by the way, there are only two options: native aspect on a lcd/plasma with black bars that you shouldn't even be noticing if you're really watching the movie... or get a projector and use masking to maintain CIH