I'm in the market for an HDTV(my first!) and was wondering:
The sets I looked at were widescreen(16:9) panels. But, when a widescreen movie played on them in the store, I would still see those irritating bars at the top and bottom of the screen. The movies playing were formatted at a 1.85:1 ratio, and if my math is correct, that would work out to 16.65:9. That's pretty damn close to 16:9, so my question is....why were the bars still showing on-screen? I thought by buying a widescreen TV that I would be saying "good-bye" to those bars forever?
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The sets I looked at were widescreen(16:9) panels. But, when a widescreen movie played on them in the store, I would still see those irritating bars at the top and bottom of the screen. The movies playing were formatted at a 1.85:1 ratio, and if my math is correct, that would work out to 16.65:9. That's pretty damn close to 16:9, so my question is....why were the bars still showing on-screen? I thought by buying a widescreen TV that I would be saying "good-bye" to those bars forever?
ez