David Lambert
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/c...23/johnson.htm
I'm surprised noone posted this already. If they did, I missed it and this thread can be closed. But I DID look!
I'm surprised noone posted this already. If they did, I missed it and this thread can be closed. But I DID look!
Watching wide-screen DVDs on a square tube
To judge from the hottest current topic in my e-mail, most readers of this column would rather not look at or despise or are made crazy by the black bars that appear above and below a wide-screen DVD picture on a conventional, squarish television screen. But while television manufacturers feel your pain, their cheerful counsel is to bear up, acknowledge that we're in a transition to a wide-screen world and meanwhile try to live with a few Band-Aid solutions.
In case you haven't yet wheeled a wide-screen rear-projection set into your living room, the root of this widely shared consternation is as old as trying to pound square pegs into round holes. Only in this case, it's shoving a rectangular picture into a nearly square frame. It sort of works but not that well.
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