Hows Is A 4.3 Image Displayed On LCD ?

Jedi Master · 12-12-2006, 03:01

I may be investing it a LCD, i do however have a quick question, how is a 4.3 image displayed on them ?? i.e. ukgold,tv episode dvd (before tv shows starting shoting in ws) etc.... as at the mo on my CRT there when in 4.3 mode i get black bars left and right like i should on a widescreen but when my tv is set into smart mode the tv fits a 4.3 image to take up the whole screen, when a 16.9 image is sent to the tv it switchs into wide mode. I like this smart feature as bars left and right can tend to bug me for a strange reason but not always.

Do LCD only display 4.3 images with bars left and right ??

TV im thinking of getting at the mo is the Sony KDL-32V2000 if that helps

Delvious · 12-12-2006, 07:25

Will be the same with LCD I'm afraid.

What I normally do is just press the 16:9 button on the remote to stretch the image thus removing the annoying black bars (which is essentially what your "smart" feature does automatically).

bobcar · 13-12-2006, 11:19

If you stick with viewing the 4:3 picture properly (with bars) then after a while you'll wonder how anyone can put up with a fattyvision picture. It beats me how anyone can claim they find picture quality important and then deliberately distort it.

If the Sony LCD is the same as my Sony CRT then "smart mode" doesn't just stretch the picture to 16:9 it zooms in a bit and stretches the sides more than the middle. This is better than plain fattyvision but still naff to be honest.

broadz · 13-12-2006, 11:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobcar

If you stick with viewing the 4:3 picture properly (with bars) then after a while you'll wonder how anyone can put up with a fattyvision picture. It beats me how anyone can claim they find picture quality important and then deliberately distort it.

If the Sony LCD is the same as my Sony CRT then "smart mode" doesn't just stretch the picture to 16:9 it zooms in a bit and stretches the sides more than the middle. This is better than plain fattyvision but still naff to be honest.

Totally agree. The best solution is to just expand the whole picture (Cinema 1 mode on my TV) if you really can't stand side bars when viewing 4:3 pictures, so that none of it is stretched, but the top and bottom of the screen (which would be horizontal bars in a wide-screen non-anamorphic display) are not visible. But to stretch the picture width-ways, so that everybody is short and fat, is more unwatchable than trying to view an anamorphic picture on a 4:3 display, where everybody is tall and thin.

Topov · 13-12-2006, 12:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delvious

What I normally do is just press the 16:9 button on the remote to stretch the image thus removing the annoying black bars (which is essentially what your "smart" feature does automatically).

Ugh! Do you work in Dixons..?

12-12-2006, 03:01	#1
Jedi Master Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 133	Hows Is A 4.3 Image Displayed On LCD ? I may be investing it a LCD, i do however have a quick question, how is a 4.3 image displayed on them ?? i.e. ukgold,tv episode dvd (before tv shows starting shoting in ws) etc.... as at the mo on my CRT there when in 4.3 mode i get black bars left and right like i should on a widescreen but when my tv is set into smart mode the tv fits a 4.3 image to take up the whole screen, when a 16.9 image is sent to the tv it switchs into wide mode. I like this smart feature as bars left and right can tend to bug me for a strange reason but not always. Do LCD only display 4.3 images with bars left and right ?? TV im thinking of getting at the mo is the Sony KDL-32V2000 if that helps

12-12-2006, 07:25	#2
Delvious Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Bristol Posts: 439	Will be the same with LCD I'm afraid. What I normally do is just press the 16:9 button on the remote to stretch the image thus removing the annoying black bars (which is essentially what your "smart" feature does automatically).

13-12-2006, 11:19	#3
bobcar Forum Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 14,718	If you stick with viewing the 4:3 picture properly (with bars) then after a while you'll wonder how anyone can put up with a fattyvision picture. It beats me how anyone can claim they find picture quality important and then deliberately distort it. If the Sony LCD is the same as my Sony CRT then "smart mode" doesn't just stretch the picture to 16:9 it zooms in a bit and stretches the sides more than the middle. This is better than plain fattyvision but still naff to be honest.

13-12-2006, 11:52	#4
broadz Banned User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,313	Quote: Originally Posted by bobcar If you stick with viewing the 4:3 picture properly (with bars) then after a while you'll wonder how anyone can put up with a fattyvision picture. It beats me how anyone can claim they find picture quality important and then deliberately distort it. If the Sony LCD is the same as my Sony CRT then "smart mode" doesn't just stretch the picture to 16:9 it zooms in a bit and stretches the sides more than the middle. This is better than plain fattyvision but still naff to be honest. Totally agree. The best solution is to just expand the whole picture (Cinema 1 mode on my TV) if you really can't stand side bars when viewing 4:3 pictures, so that none of it is stretched, but the top and bottom of the screen (which would be horizontal bars in a wide-screen non-anamorphic display) are not visible. But to stretch the picture width-ways, so that everybody is short and fat, is more unwatchable than trying to view an anamorphic picture on a 4:3 display, where everybody is tall and thin.

13-12-2006, 12:39	#5
Topov Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 367	Quote: Originally Posted by Delvious What I normally do is just press the 16:9 button on the remote to stretch the image thus removing the annoying black bars (which is essentially what your "smart" feature does automatically). Ugh! Do you work in Dixons..?

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