Older movies and Games on Widescreen HDTV?

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MichaelMychael19 wrote:

> I'm currently looking at buyinga widescreen hdtv within the next month or
> two and was wondering full screen movies and older video games look on
> widescreen. Does the newer tv's take into account the older format or does
> it chop off the top and bottoms of the picture? I've looked around to see
> if this is addressed and haven't found anything. Thanks for any help.

Good sets have multiple stretch modes for 4:3 content. This is needed for
almost all cable/satellite content. My Hitachi has a stretch mode that
chops a little off the top and bottom and gradually increases the
horizontal stretching the closer it gets to the sides. I tend to just use
16:9 mode when watching CNN/sports so that I can see the crawl/score at the
top and bottom of the screen. After a while, you just get used to people
being slightly horizontally stretched.

I also tend to play video games in 16:9 so I can see the score. Things are
just a little stretched horizontally. Gamecube/PS2/Xbox all support
widescreen mode for some games and that is the way to go. You just need to
get the component jacks for each system to use Progressive scan mode.
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