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Jesse Skeen
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posted 01-02-2011 09:25 PM

That's probably for when a 16x9 station shows a 4x3 program with black side bars- the TV crops that to 4x3 then stretches it out. Isn't that ingenious?

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Mike Croaro
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posted 01-03-2011 09:33 PM

Folks:

Glad you're enjoying the thread.

Mike

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John Wilson
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posted 01-03-2011 10:08 PM

Mike,

It's a fabulous thread. Well done!!! Do you have any more?

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Aaron Garman
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posted 01-03-2011 10:37 PM

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I was actually told by a video chain spokesman that widescreen (''letterboxed'') versions were not stocked in some stores because some customers complained, and the clerks did not have sufficient knowledge to explain the logic of letterboxing. My opinion is that (a) anyone who actually works in a video store and does not understand letterboxing has given up on life, and (b) any customer who prefers to have the sides of a movie hacked off should not be licensed to operate a video player.

Roger Ebert

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Manny Knowles
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posted 01-03-2011 10:43 PM

I'm just waiting for all these kids, who are watching sesame street today, to grow up not knowing the difference between a square and a rectangle, or a circle and an oval.

It's gonna be great! [thumbsup]

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Chris Slycord
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posted 01-03-2011 10:59 PM

While lots of people these days get a poor education, people not understanding differences of geometric figures is definitely not a new phenomenon. For instance, lots of people my age (I'm 30 btw), older, and younger have no idea that a square is a rectangle.

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Bruce McGee
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posted 01-06-2011 06:59 PM

A few months ago, I set up a new flatscreen for my 95 year old neighbor. I've kept her in TV's for years.

She just sat there watching me work, and when it was over, she was flipping channels, and landed on I Love Lucy, and immediately noticed how WIDE the Ricardo living room looked on this wide screen TV. Her son, not the brightest bulb in the box, said he couldn't see any difference. So, I set up the set for automatic screen ratio, and other than the black borders on the sides of the screen, she was thoroughly happy with this new set. She understands how 4x3 TV worked, as compared to 16x9.

I wish other folks would let me adjust their sets. I hate seeing stretched images!

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Frank Angel
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posted 01-07-2011 11:03 PM

quote: Monte L Fullmer
We also have a Visio and I've got mine set to "panaramic" view where it just slightly stretches out the side to fill the screen yet keeps the majority of the center image in proper proportions.

My friend has a set that does that -- it's passable until something moves or the camera pans, then it looks like that barrel distortion that early CinemaScope anamorphics had. I remember there is a train shot in ANASTASIA (Brynner & Bergman - 1955?) and it is framed so it passes cross the screen; it looks like you are looking at it in a circus funny mirror. Much worse though is when a talking head news anchor is in the middle of the screen and the camera shifts over so they can insert a graphic on the side, and his (her -- they are mostly women now) head gets wildly stretched and not even linearly, but the side closest to the screen edge looks like it got run over by a bulldoser. Very funny, actually.

quote: Joe Redifer
God damn I hate stupid people. They want the image filled 100% at all times because they "paid for that screen and they want it to be used

OK Joe, but those are civilians -- they have an excuse. What's much more scary is when the people in the industry who should know better do it. Like House of the Rodent -- when they released FANTASIA in the 50s, they took an Academy ratio original and stretched it to fill the new CinemaScope screen (they used SuperScope instead of CinemaScope so they could screw Zanuck out of Fox's royalty). So there's not a circle to be found. Can you imagine? All those oval bubbles in Dance of the Hours and the oval sun in Rite of Spring. At least they didn't stretch the live action -- just the two hours of animation ruined by this idiotic penchant to REALLY EEF THINGS UP for everyone else. So stupid is an equal opportunity A-hole.

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