Ugh!

So we've heard enough about the people who stretch 4:3 on a 16:9
flatscreen and call it HD Macaroni, what else screams Nouveau Riche?
What about the person who has their 5.1 surround sound set up like the
Best Buy display-- all the cute little cubes stacked on a shelf to the
side of the TV?

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So we've heard enough about the people who stretch 4:3 on a 16:9
flatscreen and call it HD Macaroni, what else screams Nouveau Riche?
What about the person who has their 5.1 surround sound set up like the
Best Buy display-- all the cute little cubes stacked on a shelf to the
side of the TV?

I knew someone who didn't like the black bars on the top and bottom, so
he set the output of his DVD player for 16:9 even though the TV was
4:3.... oh yeah, and like you said, getting a surround system and
putting all the speakers together to the left of the TV - which I
suppose doesn't really matter, since he never uses it with the TV
anyway. Not to mention the people who pay a lot of money money for a
high end TV, high end stereo VCR, high end DVD player, etc., only to
hook it all up with the RF coax cables and put the TV on channel 3 to
watch their movies.

Anyone with half a brain hates those stupid bars as they are a waste
of the screen size people paid for.


On Jan 27, 2:43*pm, David Matthew Wood
wrote:
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wrote:
So we've heard enough about the people who stretch 4:3 on a 16:9
flatscreen and call it HD Macaroni, what else screams Nouveau Riche?
What about the person who has their 5.1 surround sound set up like the
Best Buy display-- all the cute little cubes stacked on a shelf to the
side of the TV?

I knew someone who didn't like the black bars on the top and bottom, so
he set the output of his DVD player for 16:9 even though the TV was
4:3.... oh yeah, and like you said, getting a surround system and
putting all the speakers together to the left of the TV - which I
suppose doesn't really matter, since he never uses it with the TV
anyway. *Not to mention the people who pay a lot of money money for a
high end TV, high end stereo VCR, high end DVD player, etc., only to
hook it all up with the RF coax cables and put the TV on channel 3 to
watch their movies.

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wrote:

Anyone with half a brain hates those stupid bars as they are a waste
of the screen size people paid for.

So you'd rather watch a movie with a frame that has been cropped to
hell?

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wrote:

Anyone with half a brain hates those stupid bars as they are a waste
of the screen size people paid for.

Maybe, but anyone with a *whole* brain prefers to see a movie in its
original aspect ratio (with the sides NOT chopped off), and in the way
the film makers intended

wrote in message
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Anyone with half a brain hates those stupid bars as they are a waste
of the screen size people paid for.

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So...you have half a brain.

Too bad
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On Jan 27, 2:43 pm, David Matthew Wood
wrote:
In article
,

wrote:
So we've heard enough about the people who stretch 4:3 on a 16:9
flatscreen and call it HD Macaroni, what else screams Nouveau Riche?
What about the person who has their 5.1 surround sound set up like the
Best Buy display-- all the cute little cubes stacked on a shelf to the
side of the TV?

I knew someone who didn't like the black bars on the top and bottom, so
he set the output of his DVD player for 16:9 even though the TV was
4:3.... oh yeah, and like you said, getting a surround system and
putting all the speakers together to the left of the TV - which I
suppose doesn't really matter, since he never uses it with the TV
anyway. Not to mention the people who pay a lot of money money for a
high end TV, high end stereo VCR, high end DVD player, etc., only to
hook it all up with the RF coax cables and put the TV on channel 3 to
watch their movies.

On Jan 27, 12:20*pm, wrote:
Anyone with half a brain hates those stupid bars as they are a waste
of the screen size people paid for.

So if your car does 140 mph that's how fast you drive no matter what?

I don't like the black bars either but I'd rather watch a 4:3 picture
in its proper perspective than have it stretched across a 16:9 screen.
Even if I would "get used to it eventually." As I've been told.

Stretched 4:3 isnt bad. The worst is the black bars on top and bottom
of a dvd. It's disgraceful dvd makers dont match the movie to 19x9
ratio during remastering

On Jan 28, 3:06*pm, Regie_Satanis wrote:
On Jan 27, 12:20*pm, wrote: Anyone with half a brain hates those stupid bars as they are a waste
of the screen size people paid for.

So if your car does 140 mph that's how fast you drive no matter what?

I don't like the black bars either but I'd rather watch a 4:3 picture
in its proper perspective than have it stretched across a 16:9 screen.
Even if I would "get used to it eventually." As I've been told.

wrote:
Stretched 4:3 isnt bad. The worst is the black bars on top and bottom
of a dvd. It's disgraceful dvd makers dont match the movie to 19x9
ratio during remastering



The worst is people not knowing the point of the black bars.

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jer
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What point? To make a 50" tv display the same area as a 32"? Dont
give the crap about "what the director sees" either. The important
objects are usually centered anyway.

On Jan 28, 6:36*pm, Jer wrote:
wrote:
Stretched 4:3 isnt bad. The worst is the black bars on top and bottom
of a dvd. *It's disgraceful dvd makers dont match the movie to 19x9
ratio during remastering

The worst is people not knowing the point of the black bars.

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jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'