Recent content by fredgiblet

Want 16:10? Buy a widescreen computer monitor, most of them are 16:10 (to ease the transition or some crap like that).

Except for one thing, while sports are 4:3 right now soon they will switch to 16:9, and when they do for the same diagonal size (and probably lower cost like I said before) the fans will be able to see more of the field (since most games are played on a rectangle). Most games don't involve much...

But then we have to talk about price, I'm fairly certain that price is based off of area, meaning that you would have to pay more for the extra area of a 4:3 of the same diagonal meaning that you could afford a larger (or more feature rich) 16:9. The two TV's you compared had the following...

I was watching Scarface a little while ago, the version I was watching was (I believe) Anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1 ratio). I was watching it on a 4:3 screen, the movie was so tiny I could barely see it from across the room, the black bands ate up nearly half the screen. When a widescreen...

The difference in image quality between VGA and DVI is largely subjective, in fact a high quality VGA connection can be indistingiushable, though there is no reason to use VGA if DVI is available. HDMI is (or will be) required for full HD material (i.e. 1080i or 1080p) as part of a copyright...

I am interested in getting a DVD player that can upsample to 1080p (I'll take 1080i if I have to though). Does anyone here have one that they can recommend to me? I am interested mostly in image quality and not to concerned with other features. I would be particularly interested in the...