Thanks for the detail, David.

I suppose there are valid technical reasons for that border, but I must admit being really bugged at seeing (in stores) a HDTV screen playing a DVD and still having a border. Seems to me that "wide aspect" was made for HDTV/DVD and losing screen real estate on that border just seems wrong when the TV costs so much more. When that gets 'fixed' I'll be more inclined to consider such a TV.



>Jim,
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>The display is 1920x1200
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>Shrek 1.78:1 Anamorphic plays full screen width and has about 1/2 inch black band at top and bottom.
>Shrek 1.33:1 Full frame plays full screen with about 1 inch black border left/right
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>The Blue Brothers 1.85:1 anamoprhic plays with about the same 1/2 inch top/bottom top/bottom you can size the window down to about 100 pixels wide and it's pretty clear but really tiny, doubling the height makes most of the detail visible, the image scales really well at every window size I've fiddled around with.
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>Star Wars II 2.35:1 anamorphic plays full screen with about 1.25 inch black border top/bottom
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>Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Widescreen enhanced for 16x9 plays full screen with may 1 inch top/bottom border.
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>>Does the thing play DVDs using the full screen but showing ALL of the image (i.e. no black border top/bottom)?
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>>I would assume that "wide aspect" does that, but marketing usually has a few surprises up it's sleeve and I am very suspicious here.