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18-01-2006, 11:43 AM
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How do you watch 4:3 ??
It's a simple poll. Just say how you watch 4:3 footage on a widescreen TV. The options are:
1. Fit horizontally and vertically (i.e. squashed characters)
2. Fit horizontally with TV vertical stretch/zoom (i.e. adjusted character height either fully or partially, but with part of the image lost off the top and bottom of the screen)
3. Image displayed centrally at 4:3 or 14:9 with black sidebars and no character distortion.
Here's the link to the poll:
POLL
Last edited by Monkfish; 18-01-2006 at 11:47 AM.
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18-01-2006, 3:30 PM
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the correct way!
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18-01-2006, 4:36 PM
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also correctly........and why not just do a poll in your thread instead of linking off somewhere else?
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18-01-2006, 5:16 PM
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Option 3. Unless channel 4 analogue!
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18-01-2006, 5:21 PM
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14:9
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18-01-2006, 7:12 PM
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4:3 in 4:3 makes sense to me ;-)
Never been keen on squashed people or cutting parts of the picture off.
The many 'toy' ratio options are overused unnecasarily by a great many folks IMHO, always have a moan at all the 'fat' people on TV at my fiances parents house 
Brim.
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18-01-2006, 8:27 PM
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Depends 95% of viewing is 16x9
BBC stays in 4x3 as they send black bars
Usually Smart with is a 14x9 zoom with a slight stretch at the sides to fit
Music channels Zoom
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18-01-2006, 11:21 PM
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Auto Format: Passable, some distortion.
4:3 Wide black bars each side, picture too small
Subtitle zoom: Good
16:9 Picture enlarged too much, cropped edges.
14:9 Best of all
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19-01-2006, 12:11 AM
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Was there an issue using the forums own poll?
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27-01-2006, 7:09 PM
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Iv'e been using the Cinema setting on my tv as most channels i watch that aren't widescreen tend to have black bars at the top and bottom or are letterbox so cinema is perfect for them. I did just leave it in widescreen mode and had fat people but as i was noticing most programs had black bars at top and bottom it made sense to put it in cinema mode and if i switch to a widescreen channel then it switches to widescreen automatically. I can't stand watching 4:3 on a widescreen tv with black bars at the side.....
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