How do elder games/systems look on the spanking new HDTV Widescreen TV's?
has anyone done this? - also, what's your inference on the image aspect?
Answers: Black bars on any side is the only mode to see the 4:3 image entirely and in need distortion. You can also stretch the image to overrun (distort), or you can zoom to fill (crop). In stretching the imitation, everything looks too fat, and surrounded by zooming, you cut sour the top and bottom part of the picture.
HDTV's tend to be bigger than the older SDTV's (standard definition). So when you have an logo that ony takes up slice of the screen, it may still be as big as it was on your antediluvian TV.
The 4:3 stuff looks great on the new screen compared to older TV's - the symbol processing is better, and pictures get deinterlaced.
The singular thing that get annoying is when TV shows try to be clever and put a 16:9 picture (widescreen) in the 4:3 (standard) space... they crop the top and bottom of the picture to do "letterboxing" - and after the HDTV shows you a 16:9 image on a 16:9 space, but simply half the size of a full frame picture! Yeah, you can zoom contained by, but then the withdrawal of resolution becomes explicit.
The answers post by the user, for information only, CeQnA.com does not guarantee the right.
Related Questions :