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Interesting words......
interesting in that you shell out loads of dosh
for a
16:9 screen to avoid the black bars and then get DVD's that are wider than
16:9
so you still get black bars :-(
I
got
conned with the BoxSet of "Back To The Future". It is a letterbox format.
Sometime later I read that the films were shot as 4:3 with only certain
scenes
in 16:9. Last time it was on BBC1 I did a comparison, after all the whole
arguement FOR widescreen was to see the bits that were chopped off the
sides of
the 4:3 picture.
Sky
Digital was showing a 16:9 broadcast
BBC1
Terrestrial was showing a FullScreen 4:3 image
As I
"knew" the film wasnt really Widescreen I was
intrigued.....
Standing where I could see 2 TV's I did a
comparison.
The edges of the pictures were identical so I studied the top and bottom of
the
picture.
4:3
picture - I could see Dr. Emmet Brown's entire head
16:9
picture - cut off halfway up his forehead
They
had cropped a 4:3 picture to 16:9 and were giving you LESS picture when the
sales pitch for W/S sets is that you get MORE picture.
All my
TV's are still 4:3 at the moment.
I
am
used to a 28" TV. To get the same HEIGHT of picture on a 16:9 set would
require
a 36" WS which is too much money at the moment although they are dropping
quite
quickly. Anything less than 36" WS would be a SHORTSCREEN set as the
picture
would not be as tall as the one I currently watch.
BTW. I
havent seen the Panny
Keith
Two words. Aspect
Ratio.
Tim
-----Original
Message-----
From: Gerard
McGovern [mailto:stuff@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 March 2002 14:11
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] Anyone seen the
Panny LCD TVs in the flesh
But they are so expensive. Why
not get a 15inch LCD computer monitor, buy a tuner and then buy a SCART to
VGA
adapter?
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