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11-14-2009, 07:20 PM
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Does anyone know if it hurts the screen to watch a 4:3 picture on it? I've heard its not good to watch a HDTV with the black bars on it but when i set it to fit the screen it looks streached. I have no problem watching a 4:3 picture but dont want to if its gonna hurt the screen. |
11-14-2009, 07:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | It'll be fine if it's an LCD or LED. If it's a plasma, it *could* burn-in. Same on older CRT widescreens
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11-14-2009, 07:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Well, it will hurt it because you are not letting it express its full potential.
Kidding aside, it depends on what type of screen it is, and the year it's been made. As of today, very few screens will really suffer from it, but a few years ago most plasma TVs would get "stamped" with black bars or sports channels' score displays.
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11-14-2009, 07:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: St. Paul, Minnesota | | | I have a samsung LCD and i believe it is last years model.
I am watching the Pacquiao vs Cotto fight and an kinda worried cause it a good 3 or 4 hours its gonna be on.
BTW, for 55 bucks you think they would broadcast in HD, widescreen at the very least. |
11-14-2009, 07:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | LCD will be fine. Enjoy the fight.
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11-14-2009, 07:39 PM
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Modern plasmas have pixel shift, burn in is nearly non existant.
Personaly I set my tvs to stretch. Its ugly, but you get used to it.
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11-14-2009, 09:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Santa Cruz CA | | | lcd fail rate is higher than you would expect for what you pay, but companies normally make things right (samsung paid for mine). i have comacast, and commercials are always full screen, but some shows arent, and im not about to mess with aspect ratios every time i change a channel. also, to the best of my knowledge, if you have an avi or mkv file or whatever on a flash drive, you cant mess with the ratio. if it fails it fails, and you contact the company.
i dont think your tv will break because of a feature it comes with. that doesnt make any sense to me. its like cars that wont let you red line them. why would that even be an option? |
11-14-2009, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by TOOL460002 i dont think your tv will break because of a feature it comes with. that doesnt make any sense to me. its like cars that wont let you red line them. why would that even be an option? | Yeah, it would be like a computer that crashes instead of opening the spreadsheet you want. 
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11-14-2009, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by TOOL460002 lcd fail rate is higher than you would expect for what you pay, | I guess that could be a pretty subjecive statement since people might have different expectations about failure rates but my expectations about LCD failure rates is that they are pretty low. Based on articles I've read and Consumer Reports data the failure rate straight off the assembly line is pretty high but for the TVs that get through QC/testing and make it to consumers the failure rate is only 3 to 5% for most brands except for Mitsubishi, which has a much higher failure rate.
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