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34 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
No matter what you try, the picture will suck, 28 Dec 2002
This review is from the perspective of someone with digital TV. Cast aside all the features for a moment and just look at the picture: no matter what you try, it will be stretched, blown up, or cropped. With this TV, you will never see a normal picture again.The TV offers eight alternative modes of viewing, to cope with 4:3, 14:9 or 16:9 pictures. Just one of these modes shows 4:3 pictures in their original aspect ratio (with black borders at the sides). Unfortunately, this mode turns off auto-switching, so you end up viewing tall, thin people with black borders at the side for 16:9. (This mode is called 'normal'.) Three of these modes show 16:9 in the correct aspect ratio with no cropping - but they all distort 4:3 pictures. One of these modes is named 'auto', and is accompanied by a note in the manual saying this is preferred mode to its use of the widescreen switching information (either via the SCART pin or the VBI). This implies that the other two modes somehow aren't 'auto' switching. These modes also deal with 14:9 pictures, but in a way which guarantees the picture will be squashed, cropped, skewed and generally trashed. Ideally, it would blow up 14:9 to fill the full height, keep the aspect ratio the same leaving thin black borders either side. If you like to view pure, undistored pictures, and don't like tabbing through the different modes every time you change channels, this TV isn't for you.
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