Sony & Panasonic understand HDTV is confusing and want to help

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Ben Hobbs @ Aug 21st 2006 3:46AM

Ben,

You kind of missed the whole point about scaling 16:9 images into a 4:3 resolution with odd shaped pixels. I can't think of any High Def material easily available in a 4:3 resolution. Like I said scaling between 1280x720 and 1366x768 is a uniform stretch/shrink. Scaling High Definition sources (all of which are at least 720p) will involve scaling non uniformly to fit into the 4:3 resolution.

Widescreen TV's with a 4:3 resolution are part of what may have led to the death knell of plasma TV's, I'm a Home Cinema installer and I have trouble getting my head around how a 4:3 1024x768 resolution TV fits into the widescreen only High Def camp.

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