I purchased this hd lcd with a 16:10 ratio widescreen, will this affect my viewing pleasure?

Answer 1

On the assumption you mean will 16:10 be somehow inferior to 16:9 (or 4:3), the answer, in my view, is no. But .... it depends on your attitude toward "black bars" and what type of program material you watch.

There is no single aspect ratio (see previous response) that covers all program material, so black bars are inevitable.

This is because 16:9 (1.78:1) material is standard for HDTV, but 4:3 (1.33:1) is the norm for "Standard Defintion" TV, and movies vary from 1.33:1 to 1.78:1 to 1.85:1 to 2.35:1 all the way to 2.40:1. So for any of these aspect ratios, no matter what shape screen you select, there will only be one that fills the screen completely (all other will display black bars above/below or on the sides on the actual picture ... assuming the picture is not distorted by stretching disproportionately in width and height or zoomed to fill the screen and cut off part of the image).

In the case of your new TV, 16:10 is 1.60:1 which is different that all native aspect ratios. So, it will have black bars on ALL material. On the other hand, as a positive, 4:3 material will display slightly larger on your 16:10 screen than it would on a similar size 16:9 screen (and the black bars on the side will be smaller).

My prediction is that you will very quickly stop even noticing the black bars ... but it really comes down, as I said at the outset, to how sensitive you are to them.

If you really object to them on 16:9 material (which would have filled the screen on a 16:9 screen) you can always select an aspect ratio (most TVs allow you to zoom or stretch the picture in various ways) that zooms the picture slightly, filling the screen top to bottom and cutting off the extreme right and left. Voila ... no bars.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5140690-3.html?tag=lnav

Short discussion of aspect ratios - 16:10 is almost the same as the 16:9 discussed there.

Things for TV are still geared to the analog TV aspect ration of 4:3, and you will have these same problems.