Dec 3, 2008, 04:25 PM
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When I visit my family every now and then, I tend to find all of the widescreen televisions set to 16:9. This is especially curious since there are no HD playback devices in the entire house.
I used to covertly adjust the televisions so that they intelligently decide on the proper aspect ratio depending on the inputs, only to have to do the exact same thing the next time I visit.
Once, when I did that while other family members were watching with me, I got into an argument about how distracting it is to see Dylan McDermott resemble Michael Moore, and for some unfathomable reason most of my family was convinced that the grey/black bars were infinitely more distracting.
On top of that, my dad made the argument that he did not buy widescreen televisions just to "waste all that screen space."
Since there is no arguing with any of my family on any issue whatsoever, I continue to change the aspect ratios every time I visit.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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packrat