When you watch a LD on a widescreen Tv, you have pillarboxes because of 4:3 nature of LDs and if you are watching a widescreen edition LD you have a letterboxed imagine inside a pillarboxed 4:3 frame. Most tvs have zooming functions which can get rid of all black bars(vertical and horizontal) in an expense of distortion in picture. The same applies to none-anamorphic dvds as well.
Which do you prefer? zoomed but distorted(magnitude of distortion depends on the scaler) or unaltered but much smaller visible picture size on your Tv?
I have 2 displays: 40" Sony XBR2 (LCD flat) and a 60" Pioneer 141fd (plasma monitor). The picture on the Sony is terrible in both cases but pioneer does a bit better job.
Which do you prefer? zoomed but distorted(magnitude of distortion depends on the scaler) or unaltered but much smaller visible picture size on your Tv?
I have 2 displays: 40" Sony XBR2 (LCD flat) and a 60" Pioneer 141fd (plasma monitor). The picture on the Sony is terrible in both cases but pioneer does a bit better job.
