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Hi all,
I apologize for the basic level questions...
I have a sharp 9000 on order and am starting to debate whether I need an external scaler (and whether I can afford it..:^)
One of my issues is that I will be watching a fair amount of 4:3 content on my 16:9 screen off my DirecTivo. Does the NRS offer any intelligent aspect ratio controls (e.g. center constant, stretch the edges) or just full stretch?
I presume that a 4:3 into an NRS will do black bars on the side rather than grey? I was demo-ing the 9000 and they had a Toshiba HDTV receiver hooked into it which looked great until they tuned to a 4:3 station and had grey bars...ugh. If they had been feeding that same receiver through an NRS, they'd be able to get black bars, right?
-Jon
I apologize for the basic level questions...
I have a sharp 9000 on order and am starting to debate whether I need an external scaler (and whether I can afford it..:^)
One of my issues is that I will be watching a fair amount of 4:3 content on my 16:9 screen off my DirecTivo. Does the NRS offer any intelligent aspect ratio controls (e.g. center constant, stretch the edges) or just full stretch?
I presume that a 4:3 into an NRS will do black bars on the side rather than grey? I was demo-ing the 9000 and they had a Toshiba HDTV receiver hooked into it which looked great until they tuned to a 4:3 station and had grey bars...ugh. If they had been feeding that same receiver through an NRS, they'd be able to get black bars, right?
-Jon