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or how often I find I have to manually change the aspect ratio because it wasn't able to figure it out on its own. This is a feature not a bug. Most people don
by naner 15y ago
or how often I find I have to manually change the aspect ratio because it wasn't able to figure it out on its own.
This is a feature not a bug. Most people don't understand aspect ration and in fact will get upset if a standard def video doesn't fill the HD screen.
Actually, it is probably just laziness on the manufacturers part but it works out well for most consumers.
- julian37 15y agoI think you're right, and it makes me sad. Who would prefer a distorted image over a non-distorted one, black bars or not? The only explanation I have for this is sense of entitlement: "I paid dearly for each of these pixels so you better use all of them, no matter how bad the picture looks like!"
- justincormack 15y agoAlso because there were no standards for widescreen in analogue times. Even broadcast TV sometimes mixes aspect ratios incorrectly.
- llamalife 15y agoMy TV has six different aspect ratio modes. My satellite box has several more on top of that, in addition to choices about what resolutions it'll output in, in different situations. Personally, I'd like that to drop that down to two options: 'black bars' or 'fill the screen', and use sensible defaults for everything else.