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People who stretch 4:3 to fill 16:9!!!
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Maybe some feel this way about TVs? They pay a premium for giant 16:9 displays and feel gipped when watching 4:3 content so adjust the options to fill their nice display?
I don't have much 4:3 content any more and if I did I'd probably stretch it. For me it just looks better. If you don't like it you don't have to watch TV at your friends house just watch on your TV and be happy 
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You'll always find people claiming that sliced bread tastes great, that Lady Gaga is a good singer or that a Zune was a great music player.
Who was the guy who said: It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Who was the guy who said: It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Sting?
But the thing is there are reasons why people stretch 4:3 video, or zoom into 16:9 on their 16:10 monitors nipping off the edges. Yet there's no logical reason to like the Zune or Lady Gaga
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Well, some people have taste and some people don't. I agree with that. But it's not that easy to prove someone wrong in the area of aesthetics.
What I was trying to say is that Comcast broadcasts it stretched rather that the correct aspect ratio and I have to adjust it manually. To me that is unacceptable.
Well, some people own 4:3 TVs and zoom in on 16:9 content to avoid the black bars. How's that?
i HATE that, but i do stretch 4:3 to 16:9 simply because watching it on my monitor looks horrible... i know it gets stretched but it likes alright really.
I guess I'm in the odd bunch. I always have the 4:3 stretched to fill the 16:9, because I hate having the black bars on the sides (when I have to succumb to 4:3 content!). However, I don't mind the black bars for 16:9 on a 4:3 display at all. Why? I don't know.
What I DO hate is the TVs that stretch the 4:3 image in what someone earlier described as "funhouse mirror style". I just have a straight stretch. And it doesn't bother me at all.
What I DO hate is the TVs that stretch the 4:3 image in what someone earlier described as "funhouse mirror style". I just have a straight stretch. And it doesn't bother me at all.
What an amazingly petty concern. I wish that was my biggest complaint in life. But then, "only" owning a 4:3-screened TVan honest-to-God CRT, no lessI'm sure I'm eminently unqualified to even hold an opinion.
Almost forgot to tell you Thanks! That guy seems like a jerk, but he does a great job explaining things
i HATE that, but i do stretch 4:3 to 16:9 simply because watching it on my monitor looks horrible... i know it gets stretched but it likes alright really.
Well, at least you know it is stretched
Some people say "It looks the same".
Well, at least you know it is stretched
yeah of course i know
i just dont mind and i'd rather it fill the screen really 
I can't stand 4:3 stretched to fill 16:9. The idea of purposely making everyone on TV look shorter/fatter than they really are is just ridiculous to me.
I've been watching the 2009 BTCC on SPEED and the ITV feed they show is 4:3. Don't know if ITV broadcasts it in widescreen or HD in the UK, but it's kind of a bummer since the DTM broadcast right before it is at least widescreen, if not HD, and it looks massively better (even if the BTCC races are far more entertaining).
I don't like it BUT I do do it.
Why? Because we have a music channel on a lot that broadcasts 4:3 (despite many of the music video's being 16:9, you end up with black bars AND letter box! maddending!)
Anyway, while watching a (16:9) sci-fi with lots of dark scenes I noticed burnt in lines where the side black bars are on 4:3. Not wanting to damage my (LCD!) screen further I relucatntly switched sctetching on.
Why? Because we have a music channel on a lot that broadcasts 4:3 (despite many of the music video's being 16:9, you end up with black bars AND letter box! maddending!)
Anyway, while watching a (16:9) sci-fi with lots of dark scenes I noticed burnt in lines where the side black bars are on 4:3. Not wanting to damage my (LCD!) screen further I relucatntly switched sctetching on.
I don't really mind the "fish eye" stretch but I would like a combo one that zoomed a little as well. Cutting off the top and bottom few pixels is OK with me. What I really, really want, however, is more HD programming.
I don't like it either but not enough to go nuts about it. I am well acquainted with the ratio switch button on my remote at home so the majority of my viewing is at my preference in correct (or very near) ratio. I can live with it when I'm a guest in someone's home.
I setup my mom's tv to auto. When a 4:3 show is on it is automatically displayed as 4:3 and when a 16:9 show is on it is automatically displayed as 16:9. She has a 32" Sony Bravia.
ITV broadcasts in 576i widescreen here. I don't know if they have a HD version of their channel though. Everything here is widescreen now.
Never do this, I only consume 720 or 1080 content these days, my mom does this on her tv but once I showed her how to change it she stopped doing it. I'm just glad that I was able to get it across to her that stretching low-res content to a hi-res screen doesn't make it better or HD
You see it a lot at restaurants and bars, where the owner apparently wanted to pay for big widescreen HDTVs, but won't pay extra to get an HD signal from their satellite provider.
I think it just makes them look like cheapskates and that they don't think much of their customers' intelligence. Unfortunately, many times they're right to think that, since a lot of people don't know the difference.
I think it just makes them look like cheapskates and that they don't think much of their customers' intelligence. Unfortunately, many times they're right to think that, since a lot of people don't know the difference.
I resent that. A widescreen TV is maybe $600 for a quality 40" unit these days, but in many places, commercial cable can go to $200 a month for the basic package, and even more for the premium HD channels; unless this is a sports bar or something, nobody is being a cheapskate; it's all about the content providers ripping businesses off. When you don't have revenue from the TV, it's just a convenience for the customers when waiting or sitting down, not for them to sit there all day long. Add up the electric bills, etc., adding a TV means a lot of money lost.