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Have a look in Currys or Dixons. The vast majority of televisions they are selling are widescreen (portables excepted).
I went in a branch of Curry's last week to check out the prices on a printer I was buying and walked past the TV section in store.
The odd thing is they don't seem to show live television any more like they used to - they have some kind of showreel which I presume is piped from a DVD player or a computer in the back (you can imagine if it was one on the shop floor - people would be tinkering with it and also inserting DVD's of all types! ).
Of all the TV sets that were on display, most of them were widescreen and I could only see about 3 of them set up properly. The others were in a mix of centre cut out, 4:3 stretchyvision or had some sort of wierd cropping done to the picture so that only part of the 16:9 frame could be seen (even the bottom words were chopped off!). The 4:3 ones (portables and normal sized ones) were displaying the picture in 16:9 letterbox.
Rough example of what I saw ...
http://tvforum.ath.cx:8080/tvftemp/169.jpg
Original 16:9 picture.
http://tvforum.ath.cx:8080/tvftemp/crop.jpg
Wierdly cropped picture.
I think news programming and anything that shows 4:3 programming to an extent should broadcast in 4:3. It really makes my blood boil to see broadcasters butchering source material to make it something it is not.
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The standard format in shops still appear to be 4:3
Have a look in Currys or Dixons. The vast majority of televisions they are selling are widescreen (portables excepted).
I went in a branch of Curry's last week to check out the prices on a printer I was buying and walked past the TV section in store.
The odd thing is they don't seem to show live television any more like they used to - they have some kind of showreel which I presume is piped from a DVD player or a computer in the back (you can imagine if it was one on the shop floor - people would be tinkering with it and also inserting DVD's of all types! ).
Of all the TV sets that were on display, most of them were widescreen and I could only see about 3 of them set up properly. The others were in a mix of centre cut out, 4:3 stretchyvision or had some sort of wierd cropping done to the picture so that only part of the 16:9 frame could be seen (even the bottom words were chopped off!). The 4:3 ones (portables and normal sized ones) were displaying the picture in 16:9 letterbox.
Rough example of what I saw ...
http://tvforum.ath.cx:8080/tvftemp/169.jpg
Original 16:9 picture.
http://tvforum.ath.cx:8080/tvftemp/crop.jpg
Wierdly cropped picture.
I think news programming and anything that shows 4:3 programming to an extent should broadcast in 4:3. It really makes my blood boil to see broadcasters butchering source material to make it something it is not.