HDTV for regular television programs...


I've been watching recently regular public channels on HDTV in the local italian restaurant during dinner and realized that the faces are too wide and everything is spreaded along the screen.
Is wide HDTV only for movies or it can be adjusted for square screen?
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Showing 1 response by avguygeorge

I jumped into HDTV ,not knowing much. I had to get a projector because of the size of the widescreen rptv's. (apt balcony walkway corners to narrow) I sure made the right decision;for me.--Way much so called hi def material is in 4.3.(HBO) I HATE watching in anything in a "screen- filling" mode.I hate seeing bars above or beside the picture. Also they WILL cause burn in,over time.-- Fact: a year or so with 60/40 4.3 immages-- and non reversable.

With remote zoom & focus,I just make the picture larger. Things stay with the correct geometry, the bars spill over the sides of the screen--a prefered option for me.
RPTVs don't have this option. Your choices are bars or distorted stretch mode.

This is still a 4.3 world. (Unless one were to only watch widescreen dvds/ or widescreen programing)