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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I hate when they do that to TV shows. Of course watching it in 4:3 with black bars is better than having it zoomed into to get 16:9, but have the top and bottom cut off.
I don't know why it's hard to understand that having the complete picture without half of it removed is superior. You can still zoom in on literally any TV from the past what like 15 years at least, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dude, back in my day, I'd regularly have customers bitch and moan about "the black bars cutting off my picture" when they'd rent the widescreen edition of something by accident. People are idiots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Idk...most people probably aren't familiar with aspect ratios at all, let alone what aspect ratio their own TV supports. Especially back in the day your talking about. I wouldn't just write them off as idiots, it's a pretty simple mistake to make. Especially for those who simply don't care to track this information in their brains; which is completely reasonable in this age of information overload.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Zoom or stretch depending on which one the viewer prefers.

Personally either drives me nuts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well just zoom out then, duh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

In case you aren't joking, a video in the original 4:3 format can be zoomed in to watch it in 16:9 cropped or stretched to 16:9. But a video that has already been stretched usually can't be destretched and one that has been cropped cannot be zoomed out.