naka Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 (edited) I was thinking about getting one of those new wide screen LCD TV's at Lotus the other day. When checking them out, I noticed they were showing the Singapore golf tournament and the Thai player, in the lead at the time (Thai related ) looked like the Incredible Hulk. Seemed to me that these screens stretch the picture and everything looks weird. Am I perhaps missing something here ? Naka. Edited March 23, 2007 by naka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Not missing anything, just setup improperly or doesn't have a 'best fit' feature. Broadcasts here are predominately at 4:3 ratio while wide screen displays are 16:9 thus stretching the 4:3 to fit the screen. I have a Panasonic 42" plasma and it has several fitting modes including 'best fit'. This mode stretches the image only on the edges so the proportions in the center are good - does a pretty good job of it. Of course it can be set for 4:3 and will have black bands on the left and right. Of course playing wide screen movies from DVD's look very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gennisis Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I was thinking about getting one of those new wide screen LCD TV's at Lotus the other day.When checking them out, I noticed they were showing the Singapore golf tournament and the Thai player, in the lead at the time (Thai related ) looked like the Incredible Hulk. Seemed to me that these screens stretch the picture and everything looks weird. Am I perhaps missing something here ? Naka. I bought a 32# LCD and am pleased with it..mainly for sports. I did find that the picture isnt so good if you are too close to the screen though.Probably a plasma screen would have been better but more expensive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I was thinking about getting one of those new wide screen LCD TV's at Lotus the other day.When checking them out, I noticed they were showing the Singapore golf tournament and the Thai player, in the lead at the time (Thai related ) looked like the Incredible Hulk. Seemed to me that these screens stretch the picture and everything looks weird. Am I perhaps missing something here ? I too hate to see an incorrectly set-up TV. The 'Incredible hulk' effect is caused by stretching a regular 4:3 picture to fit a 16:9 screen. Switch to 'letterbox' mode to fill the screen and not distort (trouble is it chops the top and bottom off) or switch to '4:3' mode to get all the picture, but you get black lines each side. Most sets also have a stretchy mode that only drags out the sides of the picture to fit, leaving the centre un-distorted, really weird effect on panning scenes My set stays in 'letterbox' most of the time, you don't lose much information and I paid for 32" of picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Dee Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Topic moved to technology forum. /Moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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