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Thanks Lev, I get the idea. I just need to take that step and "crossover". Now I have to decide what to get when the time comes. Too many choices, LCD, DLP, Plasma etc.

Was just looking at Walmart for a Harry Potter DVD for my daughters birthday and noticed that the full screen version was $6 more that the wide screen version. I suppose that is the direction that DVD's are going now? Pretty soon we will have no choice but wide screen? By the way, I...

Thanks for the history John. I do plan on getting a widescreen someday but with my luck soon as I get one that is 16:9 they will come out with another format and I will be watching black bars of another kind.

"How come we don't complain about black bars in the theaters .." Maybe I am blind but I don't notice black bars at the theater. However, I was at a hi-fi store the other day and was watching a $6000 HDTV and it had bars in it!! If I am gonna pay that much money for a set I want to see...

Chris, Thanks for the site. You are right, I have been around the forum for a while but I have been concentrating mostly on the audio end. Now I am wanting to look at the video side of HT. One question, if some of the movies are now being produced in 2.35:1 will HDTV be going to this format...

My DVD player has zoom which I haven't tried but I would think with a 16:9 movie on a 4:3 screen it would just be a close up with the big black bars. Hate those bars.

I have a rear projection TV with 4:3 and I when I get movies I always get the full screen versions, but it seems that the trend is going toward 16:9 and I know eventually I will have to bit the bullet and go HDTV. Also, when I borrow movies most of them are 16:9 which kinda ruins the movie...