Possessed said:

Just discovered my dad has an HD 1080P television with a 4:3 screen aspect. I did not know this even existed!

On a similar note, does anybody know if there exists a SD television with a 16:9 aspect? I ask because that would be ideal for playing nintendo wii games, because wii games are 16:9 (or can be) but the wii is not HD and on my HDTV, well it doesn't look so hot.

As a matter of fact, nintendo 64 games played in HD (with an emulator) look better on my TV than wii games do. That's just sad.

HD standards took a while to be agreed on. One reason there were 720P sets and broadcasts.

I saw 16:9 sets as far back as 1993 or 1994. They were mostly rear screen projection sets. Toshiba had a model or two that actually came with a anamorphic Laserdisc.