Originally Posted by Gilbertoo:
“Is it worth getting HD on a 16:10 screen? Usually they are quite small screens to you won't see much difference between SD & HD anyway?”
Define small? HD DVD looks excellent on my 22", a vast improvement over SD - the resolution is 1680x1050, so not quite 1080p, but well over 720p, so the difference is certainly noticeable. On a 24" monitor the standard resolution is 1920x1200 at 16:10, so has the full 1080 resolution available there.
Anyway as for black bars, it depends on the TV. Some have an option to put the bars in, preserving the aspect ratio, while others don't have the option and "helpfully" crop the image, losing bits off the side, to fill the screen.
I have two monitors, one has this option (Samsung 225MW), one doesn't (940MW).
I much prefer the one that does, I hate losing bits of the screen - cropping into the screen is VHS age.