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[Varche]

Don't you just love how things become obsolete.

We have a perfectly good (but must be 10 or maybe even 15 years old) tube TV. Remember those with about three foot at the back for every square foot of screen and stood on a cupboard with glass doors for all your betamax films.

It still works fine despite having travelled all the way to Spain.

EXCEPT when you watch a modern DVD it shows it in two options , A tiny letterbox or a miniscule letterbox.

WTF. Normal TV programmes are the full size of the screen or you can make them 16 by9 (if that is the correct terminology) and lose a bit of the screen.

If I wanted to have a rubbish viewing experience I could go outside and watch TV through a real letterbox or just take my glasses off.


/Rant off   

[TheBoy]

No, your telly is shagged. Trust me. Its just its degraded slowly in front of you, you don't realise how bad it is.


Anything now is also 16:9 format.

[Martian]

We have a perfectly good (but must be 10 or maybe even 15 years old) tube TV

In human terms, that equates to anywhere between 100 - 150 years old.

EXCEPT when you watch a modern DVD it shows it in two options , A tiny letterbox or a miniscule letterbox.

What you are seeing there is the true image size, your TV obviously can't resize it correctly if that's how you are seeing the end result.

WTF. Normal TV programmes are the full size of the screen or you can make them 16 by9 (if that is the correct terminology) and lose a bit of the screen.

"Normal" TV images are broadcast at a different resolution to DVD and any correction is done at source, most DVD players have the option in the setup menu to apply the correction during playback by teling the DVD player what type of TV you have (eg, 4:3, 16:9, 16:9 Wide, etc).

[Webby the Bear]

Recently bought Technika TV. 40" for £299. great picture although to give full HD for the blu-ray we had to have a lead. luckily, my better half being far more techie than i am already had one and everythings great 

either way stop being a tight wad and get a new one! 

[Varche]

Recently bought Technika TV. 40" for £299. great picture although to give full HD for the blu-ray we had to have a lead. luckily, my better half being far more techie than i am already had one and everythings great 

either way stop being a tight wad and get a new one! 

Not that easy when you live in paradise on a fiscal knife edge. It will get replaced only when it breaks down irreparably OR more new technology is introduced making the letterbox even smaller. I might experiment with some vertical letterbox glasses - a sort of low tech 2D viewing experience enhancer for these new fangled DVD's.

[Webby the Bear]

Recently bought Technika TV. 40" for £299. great picture although to give full HD for the blu-ray we had to have a lead. luckily, my better half being far more techie than i am already had one and everythings great 

either way stop being a tight wad and get a new one! 

Not that easy when you live in paradise on a fiscal knife edge. It will get replaced only when it breaks down irreparably OR more new technology is introduced making the letterbox even smaller. I might experiment with some vertical letterbox glasses - a sort of low tech 2D viewing experience enhancer for these new fangled DVD's.

Yeah, but you must have robbed a bank to get there. I thought that's why the British went over.... to avoid being collared where British law can't be applied retrospectively? 

[Varche]

No, I am on the witness protection programme. had to leave with what we I'd got.

If you rob a bank, I have a just one more spare room available to rent.

[TheBoy]

Recently bought Technika TV. 40" for £299. great picture although to give full HD for the blu-ray we had to have a lead. luckily, my better half being far more techie than i am already had one and everythings great 

either way stop being a tight wad and get a new one! 

Not that easy when you live in paradise on a fiscal knife edge. It will get replaced only when it breaks down irreparably OR more new technology is introduced making the letterbox even smaller. I might experiment with some vertical letterbox glasses - a sort of low tech 2D viewing experience enhancer for these new fangled DVD's.

It will get worse I suspect.  In fact I can see, in a few years, an even wider widescreen become the norm.

Even on a widescreen telly, most films will still have bars top and bottom (widescreen telly is 1.85 aspect, theatrical movies are 2.35)

[Varche]

Watched Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol last night using my new fangled glasses with the vertical letterbox(just pieces of cardboard stuck to my glasses). Worked great but I have to sit quite close to the TV - about 18 inches and move my head side to side to see the whole thing.

Mrs V says she thinks I am losing it. She may have a point but ......

[Omegatoy]

Watched Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol last night using my new fangled glasses with the vertical letterbox(just pieces of cardboard stuck to my glasses). Worked great but I have to sit quite close to the TV - about 18 inches and move my head side to side to see the whole thing.

Mrs V says she thinks I am losing it. She may have a point but ......

 

[bootie]

The image I have in my head from that is definately making me chuckle.

[Shackeng]

Watched Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol last night using my new fangled glasses with the vertical letterbox(just pieces of cardboard stuck to my glasses). Worked great but I have to sit quite close to the TV - about 18 inches and move my head side to side to see the whole thing.

Mrs V says she thinks I am losing it. She may have a point but ......