4:3 or 16:9, choose...

[Jayson1]

^ Blu-ray players don't zoom (IIRC), but any decent HDTV will.

I got element HDTV and it does zoom but when I do that it cuts off peoples heads and basically it zooms in far more than I like. My tv has, just scan, which is the format were you see everything. Then it has normal and wide which seems to be the same thing. It makes it a little bigger but the black bars on the sides still stay the same. Then it's got zoom which is to big and cinema were it looks distorted.
I use to have a tv with partial zoom and when I had Dish Network the dvr box also had a option that worked well to crop it like on Netflix. My old dvd player also use to be able to do that. I was hoping a blue ray player would also have the ability to alter the shows in the way you like to watch them.

Jason

 

[Gary7]

It's good for the brain to watch in 4:3. Stretching to 16:9 isn't healthy.

 

[JesterFace]

It's good for the brain to watch in 4:3. Stretching to 16:9 isn't healthy.

I KNEW IT! Suspicions confirmed.

 

[JesterFace]

After not watching almost anything in 4:3 for a long time, I assumed the black sidebars would become an issue... but after less than 10 episodes into my TNG marathon, I don't really pay much attention to this "problem" / sidebars at all.

 

[Mage]

No matter the series or movie, I always watched it the way it should, so with modern tvs, that mean sidebars. I'm cool with it. That horrid stretching if you go 16:9....

 

[JesterFace]

modern tvs

16:9 seems modern now, but Star Trek takes place far in the future and they're in 4:3, so, it's only a matter of time when 4:3 is back.

 

[Forbin]

Just ask yourself, if this was photos of your family on the wall, would you want to see their faces squashed and stretched?

 

[Forbin]

I also encounter something like this at work, when some manager or engineer sends me a powerpoint to format and clean up. They inevitably include photos that they've mashed into a slide to fit. Makes me wanna scream "can't you SEE this is wrong???"

 

[Tallguy]

I also encounter something like this at work, when some manager or engineer sends me a powerpoint to format and clean up. They inevitably include photos that they've mashed into a slide to fit. Makes me wanna scream "can't you SEE this is wrong???"

The real pain comes when you realize the answer to your question is "No". And the follow up is "and we don't care."

 

[Ovation]

The real pain comes when you realize the answer to your question is "No". And the follow up is "and we don't care."

There is a special circle of hell reserved for such people.

 

[maneth]

Can't stand stretching. Sidebars don't bother me at all.

 

[Jayson1]

At least we can all agree the best place to watch our shows/movies is our cell phones. You haven't seen "Star Wars" until you have watched it on your phone in between texts.

Jason

 

[DonIago]

In the original Klingon, of course.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Does anyone else get annoyed when widescreen 576i is incorrectly scaled from 720 to 1920 rather than cropped to 702 and then scaled?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It irks me that you can have Standard Definition 4:3, Standard Definition 16:9 and High Definition 16:9, but High Definition 4:3 is apparently impossible.

HDTV requires a 16:9 ratio. It's part of the basic spec. All HD sets must have that ratio, it can't be avoided.

Remastered Star Trek (or any other old film or television) has to have black bars embedded at the sides, so if you actually watch it on a 4:3 screen it ends up window-boxed.

I hate to sound harsh, but since there are no more 4:3 sets being sold, you can't expect the industry to cater to them.

As for the windowboxing: You must have your settings wrong. A 4:3 set cannot, by definition, be HD, so you are watching in standard definition. And therefore you should have the ability to watch 4:3 in the normal manner. If this isn't happening, you have something misconfigured. (Make sure you tell your DVD player that you have a 4:3 set...)

 

[Shalashaska]

HDTV requires a 16:9 ratio. It's part of the basic spec. All HD sets must have that ratio, it can't be avoided.



A 4:3 set cannot, by definition, be HD, so you are watching in standard definition.

They're definitely not sold anymore, but there's a number of 4:3 sets that have been made in the past that can display 720p/1080i.

The Sony KD-36XS955 for one. As well as a number of old professional CRT monitors (which are now highly sought after by retro gaming enthusiasts).

 

[JesterFace]

since there are no more 4:3 sets being sold

4:3 TVs could be a good market for smaller manufacturers, I guess some people still want them. I might be interested...

 

[{ Emilia }]

Wait until they're all 9:16!

You're all laughing now but just wait until all these young people who hold their phone in portrait orientation while filming video get into the TV and movie business...

Oh the humanity...

 

[Knazzer]

I can't watch it stretched, so watch either format.

 

[Paul Weaver]

You're all laughing now but just wait until all these young people who hold their phone in portrait orientation while filming video get into the TV and movie business...

Oh the humanity...

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There was a big push at work to produce vertical video - I'm happy to say it hasn't been particularly popular.

Does anyone remember how 3D TV was the future? Also happy to see that seems to have faded away at the trade shows. HDR, high frame rate, even 8k, sure that's all useful in one way or another

 

[Ovation]

Does anyone remember how 3D TV was the future? Also happy to see that seems to have faded away at the trade shows. HDR, high frame rate, even 8k, sure that's all useful in one way or another

I quite enjoy my 3D projector, but I can make a large image (over 100") with little effort, and that's when 3D really works well. On a 45-55" TV, not so much. 8K makes zero sense in a home environment (though it could be useful in large format venues). HDR and greater bit depth (12 and more) for colours are the most likely to have a useful impact in home environments.

 

[scotpens]

Does anyone remember how 3D TV was the future? Also happy to see that seems to have faded away at the trade shows. HDR, high frame rate, even 8k, sure that's all useful in one way or another

I'm still waiting for Robert Heinlein's stereovision tanks.