good day to buy 30" monitor

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:27:19AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> When such a DVD player sends a wide screen signal to the TV, does it
>> actually produce a different signal or does it just tell the set to
>> display in wide screen?
>>     
>
> Well it would not generate the same amount of black bars at the top and
> bottom of the screen in the case of a widescreen DVD.  So the signal
> would be different.  The aspect ratio would be preserved, and rather
> than having the DVD add bars to the top and bottom and then have the
> widescreen TV add black bars to the left and right, you would end up
> with mostly picture on the screen.
>   
Does the DVD player or wide screen TV produce the bars?  After all, when
receiving a standard definition signal from another source, such as
broadcast or VCR, the bars appear, but are not from the source.

> If the DVD player setup has an option for TV aspect ratio, then that
> would be it.  Of course the TV has to not be set to stretch, since that
> just ruins all images you view.
>
>   
With a DVD player I have, it was configured for 16:9, but stretching was
still necessary.

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