Wide screen TV

[P.C.]

Is there anyone who doesn't adjust the aspect ration on their TV....and watches it in this mode ?  

Where I was staying for the week, they watched it in the squatty squishy mode......drove me bananas.

  [img]http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/ca/learningcenter/home/aspect/TVGuide-2.jpg" vspace=5]

  as opposed to this ?

  [img]http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/ca/learningcenter/home/aspect/TVGuide-1.jpg" vspace=5]

[Russ]

I for one dont have a clue what my screen is set at. I just turn it on and watch.

  I assume its a variation of the squat mode you are speaking of.

[P.C.]

lol....it didn't seem to bother them either.   She said the black bars down the side drove her bananas more.  

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[Oui Oui]

 P.C. wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]lol....it didn't seem to bother them either.   She said the black bars down the side drove her bananas more.  [/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"] [/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"][img style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="url(this.src);" src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c008.gif[/img][/div]
My father in law's HDTV is set to that mode.  We got used to it after a while.  It is true that the black bands were more annoying.
 

[49er]

 the squatty squishy mode is actually the normal or full mode.  The black bars also bother me....I watch at the wide zoom  
 

[purelife]

I'm with Russ...I'm not sure what mode we have it set up but I know that it doesn't have those bars on the two sides.  I don't mind the bars up and down for a widescreen effect for movies.

[P.C.]

 There are other settings to remove the bars, but keep the aspect ratio intact.  I'm not sure if all TV's have this option, or only HD.  

So all the bodies are properly proportioned, but you lose some of the pic. (like on the left)  HD, shows proper proportion AND the full pic. (pic on right)

[img]http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/ca/learningcenter/home/aspect/TVGuide-3.jpg" vspace=5]     [img]http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/ca/learningcenter/home/aspect/TVGuide-4.jpg" vspace=5][/DIV]

[stretchedout]

People who have old school tvs watch way less tv.  I'm staying with my 21"er for now.

[P.C.]

Not sure if I believe there is any basis in that.

[stretchedout]

P.C. wrote:
 Not sure if I believe there is any basis in that.[/DIV]
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  Well, if you have a huge lcd or plasma tv with a surround sound system everything is better.  If you have a regular old tv with mono sound you might just watch your favorite shows and the news, cause it ain't that great an experience.  As well, those with old tv's are more likely to not have cable or satellite than those with...  just 2 to 3 channels avec rabbit ears makes for less boob tube time.

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   T.V., it
satellite links
our United States of Unconsciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching
T.V. is the reason why less than 10 per cent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central Amerika
means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
and Apartheid is a new headache remedy
absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us
that we're sitting too close to...

 [Chorus:]
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

[stretchedout]

Final verse:

  Back again, "New and improved"
We return to our irregularly programmed schedule
hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
beer and car commercials
CNNESPNABCTNT but mostly B.S.
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless", "fresh frozen"
"light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
have become standard
T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"Crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
and being killed by your own Army
is now called "friendly fire"
T.V. is the place where the pursuit
of happiness has become the pursuit of
trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become
sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple

[P.C.]

Well....maybe I'll say, it doesn't apply to me.  I don't watch much TV.....and didn't watch any more when we got the fancy TV.  Crap is crap....even when it's clearer, or bigger, or sounds better....it doesn't change what's out there to watch.

[stretchedout]

The message is important:

  [A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA[/A]

[P.C.]

I wonder why I can't view any YouTubes that I connect to through a link.  I always get, 'We're sorry, this video is no longer available'  ....yet if I connect to YouTube by a search....it's usually fine.  ?  Any ideas ?

[49er]

stretchedout wrote:
People who have old school tvs watch way less tv.  I'm staying with my 21"er for now.[/DIV]
   You will be a convert once you watch a DVD on a giant LCD or plasma