I'm looking for a primmer on the advantages/disadvantages of buying a projector with the 16x9 chip, or a 4x3 chip. At the moment, I'm torn between the new Sharp and the new Hatichi.
I assume that the lenses such as the Panamorph and the ISOII perform the task of squeezing a 4x3 image into 16x9 or thereabouts. So then, if you have a high res 4x3 projector and use one of these lenses it effectively condenses the vertical resolution of the 4x3 image? Which, I assume would give you very vertical resolution, however when watching 16x9 source material wouldn't you have to feed the projector with a vertically pulled and horizontally streched 4x3 image, so that it will look good through the lense.
Maybe, I've got this all wrong. I'd just like to understand how people are using these lenses practically in their set-ups. Do you have to take the lense off and on, when viewing different aspect ratios? Is that why the 16x9 projectors are favorable?
Perhaps there's already an elementary discussion of this somewhere else on the Forum. If so, I apologize, but I didn't find it.
Thanks,
John
I assume that the lenses such as the Panamorph and the ISOII perform the task of squeezing a 4x3 image into 16x9 or thereabouts. So then, if you have a high res 4x3 projector and use one of these lenses it effectively condenses the vertical resolution of the 4x3 image? Which, I assume would give you very vertical resolution, however when watching 16x9 source material wouldn't you have to feed the projector with a vertically pulled and horizontally streched 4x3 image, so that it will look good through the lense.
Maybe, I've got this all wrong. I'd just like to understand how people are using these lenses practically in their set-ups. Do you have to take the lense off and on, when viewing different aspect ratios? Is that why the 16x9 projectors are favorable?
Perhaps there's already an elementary discussion of this somewhere else on the Forum. If so, I apologize, but I didn't find it.
Thanks,
John