adywan said:
Already seen one of these and they are a total waste of time. They had a blu-ray movie playing on it and the picture wasn't that great. Who in their right mind would buy one of these? Yeh, for movies with that aspect ratio you lose the black bars (well not all of the bars) but its pretty much useless for every other type of movie and TV viewing. Its even crap watching a movie that has that ratio if you need to have subtitles on. I asked the guy at the stand to turn on the subtitles and they were cut in half, with most not even showing because their placement is usually in the lower part of the picture, in the black bars. now when i got him to play the menus of that disc well that really showed what a piece of crap this idea was. the picture kept resizing itself unless he changed the tv setting to zoom.

you see, how this tv works is the same way a standard hd tv works when using the "full" function on the ratio control. it senses the black bar areas and zooms & crops the image to fit the screen. so movies that have a different ratio to the 21:9 ratio of the TV will look odd and have the incorrect aspect ratio. watching a movie that has a 16:9 ratio becomes squashed or you have to change the settings to zoom and then the image is cropped to shit and just forget even attempting to watch anything that is 4:3. So pretty much useless for watching Tv channels

I was asked to leave the stand at the tech show because the guy who was demonstrating it didn't like the way i managed to get him to show just how crap this idea and the TV was.

Sounds perfect for Negetive1....you know for someone who thinks Blu-ray is a dead format and DVD never took off.

Maybe he can watch his Laserdiscs on it and think he's finally got the setup....