I wish I knew what you're talking about. My thing is, I'd rather see a picture filled with my whole screen of my original 24 X37 screeen measurements and not see parts of the original picture than see this on say for example 15 X50 measurements if that makes sense to you. My point isn't too debate you guys but to find out if they're any HDTV's with normal looking screen dimensions?
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I'm confused. If you get an HDTV that has a 4:3 ratio (Almost as tall as it is wide) you will have more black bars then ever before. Espacially while watching HD broadcasts. With a widescreen, 16:9 HDTV, the only DVD's that will have blackbars are those that have a ratio that is greater than 1.85:1. The HD broadcast will likely always fill the screen because most providers 'hack' the original aspect rario to 16:9 (1.77:1) for you. This trend is slowly changing but for the most part it is still common. If you watch regular TV on the widescreen TV then you can stretch it to fill the widescreen, most TV's have several different means of doing this. If you don't like the stretched look than you can watch it with vertical pillars on each side. As long as the TV is properly calibrated there is little risk of burn in. If you get an HDTV that is at the 4:3 (1.33:1) ratio then the HD broadcasts will always be letterboxed with the blackbars all of the time because there are very few TV's out there that are capable of manipulating the HD signal, i.e zoom or crop. In the end you will end up with more letterboxing with the "normal" looking HDTV.