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I can remember watching DVDs on my 22" CRT monitor. Setting the resolution to 720 x 540, and the refresh rate to 59.94 Hz. My first TV was a 32" 720p flat screen that I got from my sister. When I upgraded to a 50" 4k screen, I found that I was actually able to read the feeds scrolling at the bottom of the screen. I upgraded my DVD player to a 4k unit at the same time. Now I have a 65" 4k flat screen.
Seeing video in the proper aspect ratio is a combination of your settings, and the settings of the video. Here's a Slade video that has been properly "superscaled" to 4k:
You can always change the aspect ration to 4:3 for old TV shows. Yes, it means having to adjust something and back again, but it is there if it bothers you that much.
Meanwhile, a lot of older shows are simply showing black bars on either side while keeping the original 4:3 format.
Everything is HD these days, unless you are only watching really old TV shows in their original broadcast formats and not upscaled or remastered.
I LOVE HD widescreen TV. It has to be a top 5 favorite aspect of life today. It is absolutley fantastic. NFL games have never been the same. I never used to be able to read the names or numbers on jerseys on old 4:3 analog TVs. Games looked terrible. I just didn't know different as far as how good they could look until HD flat screen came along.
Don't even start me on MOVIES.
As a die-hard movie buff with a nice small collection of 500 or so movies, there is NOTHING like a big HD flat screen. Life has never been the same. Movies are so bright and vivid and big and clear.
Yep, HD flat screen is easily a top 3-5 improvement of my life in the past 20 years or more. I LOVE big widescreen TV.
OP posted in 2008.
16 years ago, it didn't really take a Luddite to point out the shortcomings and weak value propositions vs our current day tech offerings.
OP has adapted and embraced today's tech:
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Originally Posted by OhioNative
Can’t believe this ancient thread has been resurrected. Clearly the technology has been perfected and we all figured out how to use it. No one would want to go back to tube tvs. lol
I will join the minority. I definitely wish I still had my old style TV. Set it on any flat surface along the side of any room in the house. Let it be a condensed visual that is only a small part of your actual life. Know that the presentation of news is highly regulated for accuracy. TV announcers are not presented as physically larger and more important or valuable than what they introduce.
At first the idea of flat screens was great. They were moving versions of framed artwork on the walls. But eventually the programming wasn’t about visual short stories and instructional material. The ability to see lifesized announcers and show hosts meant that most of the show time was about the opinionated “talking heads” who were life sized in our main living space instead of being voices that earlier were more important than the depicted.
Of course sporting events show really best on big flat screens. But there the event is what is emphasized not the dramatic announcer person.
I will join the minority. I definitely wish I still had my old style TV. Set it on any flat surface along the side of any room in the house. Let it be a condensed visual that is only a small part of your actual life. Know that the presentation of news is highly regulated for accuracy. TV announcers are not presented as physically larger and more important or valuable than what they introduce.
At first the idea of flat screens was great. They were moving versions of framed artwork on the walls. But eventually the programming wasn’t about visual short stories and instructional material. The ability to see lifesized announcers and show hosts meant that most of the show time was about the opinionated “talking heads” who were life sized in our main living space instead of being voices that earlier were more important than the depicted.
Of course sporting events show really best on big flat screens. But there the event is what is emphasized not the dramatic announcer person.
Well, you're going to catch the usual ration of you know what from those who just can't see any reason why anyone wouldn't want to fully commit to the constant intake of whatever dreck the powers that be decide we should choke down. I like your viewpoint of keeping the nastiness of TeeVee limited to a small scale, both in size and in time. Yes, if there's a nuclear war I want to be able to know what's going on; but I just can't get on board with becoming Mrs. Montag, not just yet.
Coconut cream pie is a good thing, taken one slice at a time, maybe a slice once a month or so. But the pop-culture-obsessed basically want to hoover down a couple a day, and anyone who counsels moderation in intake gets derided as "a Luddite" (these people have no idea what the term actually means) or accused of having personality disorders, just because they don't want to GET WITH THE PROGRAM and CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME!!!!
At first the idea of flat screens was great. They were moving versions of framed artwork on the walls. But eventually the programming wasn’t about visual short stories and instructional material. The ability to see lifesized announcers and show hosts meant that most of the show time was about the opinionated “talking heads” who were life sized in our main living space instead of being voices that earlier were more important than the depicted.
Of course sporting events show really best on big flat screens. But there the event is what is emphasized not the dramatic announcer person.
The original post was dated 07-16-2008. OP probably spent the first portion of their life on 4:3 aspect ratio and the change to 16:9 was just too great to bear. You know, having all that extra screen real estate can be really taxing on simple minds.
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