Matthew Hill: I've noticed at home that a lot of the TV shows I watch now are being broadcast in letterbox (such as _Angel_ on the WB, for example). I assume that if I had a 16x9 TV that it would put the gray bars on because it's a 4x3 signal, and then show the black lines top and bottom which are part of the signal.


You are technically correct Matthew. If you watched regular 4:3 programming with no stretching/zooming involved you would end up with a picture with bars on all sides of the display. Most people that I know that have 16:9 sets alter their 4:3 images to fill the entire screen. I do this because I would hate to have burn in from the side bars.

The only time that I know of where you cannot adjust the set for the bars on all sides would be if: You were watching letterboxed 4:3 material on an HDTV station. (This does happen!!!) On my Mitsu TV I cannot adjust the format when in 1080i mode.

Common HDTV. Lets get going... hehe like that's going to happen.

Troop


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Food for thought. An electron moves at the speed of about 8cm/hr in a typical light bulb.

Troop