Our new TV is your basic LCD wide screen and it has four display modes 4:3, Zoom, Just and Full. 4:3 is for basic TV and leaves black bars on the sides, Zoom makes HD cable shows that have black bars all around the picture fill the screen, Full stretches the 4:3 picture horizontally to fill the screen and Just does something similar to Full except that the middle of the picture doesn’t get as distorted as the edges.
I hate the stretched look that everyone and or thing gets when a normal sized TV picture is stretched to fit the wide screen, so most of the time when I’m watching the tube I will keep it set to 4:3.
I want my HDTV. I think. I sit here watching House and wonder why I’m getting a pan and scan image without the pan, the left and right edges of peoples headed are chopped off.
House gets broadcast in HD, so I’m betting if I paid the cable company extra I could get the full image, but that ain’t happening. I wonder if I bought some of those new fangled rabbit ears I could pick up the Augusta FOX channel in HD?
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