{"id":43,"date":"2007-08-19T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T01:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/wordpress\/?p=43"},"modified":"2007-08-19T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T01:53:55","slug":"unnatural-proportions-on-16x9-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Unnatural Proportions on 16&#215;9 Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Those people aren\u2019t fat, just stretched<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Just about every bar in the country is now equipped with at least one 16&#215;9 size flat screen TV. The problem is that most of the programming is still produced and broadcast in 4&#215;3 aspect ratio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are two options for displaying all familiar 4&#215;3 SD video in a 16&#215;9 widescreen monitor. You can center the smaller 4&#215;3 image and leave the sides of the monitor unused. Alternately you can stretch the video horizontally to fill up the entire screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Unfortunately, most people select the stretch option which has an unpleasant side effect of making everyone look wide faced. Properly set TV as illustrated in Figure 1 comes at a price. A plasma screen and even LCD screens may develop a permanent &#8220;burn&#8221; due to underutilization of the black pillarboxed area. Better TVs have screen savers that minimize the damage by shifting the picture by minute amounts.  While a screen saver like this can save a home HDTV it is generally unacceptable to use such devices in professional environment where steady image is required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/illustrations\/unnatural.jpg\" title=\"stretched TV image\" alt=\"stretched TV image\" height=\"159\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fig 1. wrong proportions on widescreen TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those people aren\u2019t fat, just stretched Just about every bar in the country is now equipped with at least one 16&#215;9 size flat screen TV. The problem is that most of the programming is still produced and broadcast in 4&#215;3 aspect ratio. There are two options for displaying all familiar 4&#215;3 SD video in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=43\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unnatural Proportions on 16&#215;9 Screen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}