Comments on: Change the Aspect Ratio! http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/01/22/change-the-aspect-ratio/ John Griffin is just another media junkie Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Griffin http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/01/22/change-the-aspect-ratio/#comment-2762 John Griffin Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:23:40 +0000 http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/01/22/change-the-aspect-ratio/#comment-2762 Yeh Chris the "fake widescreen" TVs used to do this alot. They are using a modern HDTV though so there's no excuse ;-) And I totally agree about the cropping. I am going back through Seinfeld again (4:3) and cropping it to 16:9 so it looks great on my projector (better than stretching or leaving native). Some TVs have a nice feature that is basically a half and half approach which does slight cropping and then stretches on the extreme edges. Yeh Chris the “fake widescreen” TVs used to do this alot. They are using a modern HDTV though so there’s no excuse ;-)
And I totally agree about the cropping. I am going back through Seinfeld again (4:3) and cropping it to 16:9 so it looks great on my projector (better than stretching or leaving native). Some TVs have a nice feature that is basically a half and half approach which does slight cropping and then stretches on the extreme edges.

]]> By: Chris http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/01/22/change-the-aspect-ratio/#comment-2760 Chris Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:25:11 +0000 http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/01/22/change-the-aspect-ratio/#comment-2760 I agree with John here - I hate watching short, fat people on television. Andy - I'd rather lose some of the picture (for example by cropping out some of a 4:3 picture to view in 14:9 or 16:9 on a widescreen TV) than stretch the picture one way or another - it looks horrible! That said, I think cheap widescreen TVs are partly to blame, as they don't always have the capabilities to easily switch between aspect ratios. I agree with John here - I hate watching short, fat people on television. Andy - I’d rather lose some of the picture (for example by cropping out some of a 4:3 picture to view in 14:9 or 16:9 on a widescreen TV) than stretch the picture one way or another - it looks horrible!

That said, I think cheap widescreen TVs are partly to blame, as they don’t always have the capabilities to easily switch between aspect ratios.

]]> By: Andy http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/01/22/change-the-aspect-ratio/#comment-2761 Andy Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:01:32 +0000 http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/01/22/change-the-aspect-ratio/#comment-2761 Lol - this so reminds me of my parents! For the most part, it doesnt actually bother me that much, but when you're obviously losing some of the picture, that's when i can't cope! Lol - this so reminds me of my parents! For the most part, it doesnt actually bother me that much, but when you’re obviously losing some of the picture, that’s when i can’t cope!

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