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Possible burn-in question
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I can't stand watching a video that is in the wrong aspect ratio.  Get's my undies all bunched up.
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I can't stand watching a video that is in the wrong aspect ratio.  Get's my undies all bunched up.


Like I said, your eyes will adjust after a short time, and you won't notice it.  Your brain automatically compensates.  Its partly a matter of training your brain, and partly a genetics thing.  You'll find that after awhile you have to really concentrate to detect the difference.
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I agree with John for the most part, the only times i really notice it is on sports programming. But, I watch the majority of that in HD anyway.

My TV has a Super Stretch mode, it not only stretches the side out, but a bit of the top and bottom to make a more uniform stretch. The ONLY time I really notice the stretching as I said is on sports programming. I have no idea why that is either.
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I notice even when the aspect ratio is even only slightly off.  I notice when perportions change from vertical to horizontal.  I don't want to train my brain to ignore it, I want to watch the movie the way it was meant to be watched.

So what if I get black bars on the bottom or sides.  I have a 53" HDTV, it's a big image no matter what.

One of my old receivers was playing the sound a fraction of a second behind with optical.  I noticed something was odd a quarter of the way through a movie and figured it out by the time I was half way through.  When something hit something else, the impact sound wasn't at the exact same moment.  Spent a half hour running a pool game on one TV input and another on the 360 comparing the impact sounds.  When I had enough proof that it was the receiver's fault, I went out and immediately replaced it because I wasn't going to watch any more movies until I did so.
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I notice even when the aspect ratio is even only slightly off.  I notice when perportions change from vertical to horizontal.  I don't want to train my brain to ignore it, I want to watch the movie the way it was meant to be watched.

So what if I get black bars on the bottom or sides.  I have a 53" HDTV, it's a big image no matter what.

One of my old receivers was playing the sound a fraction of a second behind with optical.  I noticed something was odd a quarter of the way through a movie and figured it out by the time I was half way through.  When something hit something else, the impact sound wasn't at the exact same moment.  Spent a half hour running a pool game on one TV input and another on the 360 comparing the impact sounds.  When I had enough proof that it was the receiver's fault, I went out and immediately replaced it because I wasn't going to watch any more movies until I did so.



Why on earth would anyone stretch movies?
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