Originally posted by: Mavimao
What I meant by "resizing" was taking the image and making it smaller so it fits inside these "safezones" which is a really bad thing to do since not only do you lose resolution but it leaves this annoying black square around your image.

So what you're saying is that you're not looking at the same posts as I am! Well, at least not the same meaning of "resizing" in those posts.

I totally agree that fitting the material into the "title safe" or "action safe" zones isn't the way to go. That problem of overscan/cropping is really only a factor on conventional CRT sets, isn't it? So the direction everything's heading (be it LCD, DLP, LCoS, plasma, etc.) should eventually obviate having to mess with the source in order to 'fake out' the display device.

As a bit of an aside, I went into my cheapo 27" TV's setup menu, and was able to get it to do the anamorphic squeeze trick. Sweet... However, apparently my model won't allow horizontal resizing the way it allows vertical resizing. Bummer. That means I'm still looking at a picture missing several percent of the left and right sides of the picture, due to overscan.

When I buy a projector, though, I'm anticipating none of this will be a problem...