I am thinking about buying a wide screen high def lcd tv. I only have regular cable not digital high def cable. I would like to know if buying an lcd with this feature will eliminate the vertical bars on either side of the tv.
2007-05-14 08:32:29 · 2 answers · asked by bbopper 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
No it will not. However, most widescreen TVs have a "stretch" mode which will fit a standard picture into a widescreen shape. This produces some shape distortion in the picture, but it is surprising how well it works. This is not connected to DCDi, which will improve the picture's appearance overall.
2007-05-14 08:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The vertical bars are when your viewing programming in the 4:3 aspect ratio on a !6:9 Screen. Sure, pretty much all LCD TV's will process and stretch to fill the whole screen, but it will still look like crap with regular cable TV. To take advantage of the LCD, you really need to feed it a High-Def signal otherwise it will really reveal all the flaws of the low quality Cable TV Signal ! Farouja makes nice processors that basically do line doubling to kind of give you a better looking image, but you can't expect to turn a low quality (cable TV) siganl into a Hi-Def one, ain't gonna happen!
2007-05-14 15:41:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋