Widescreen TV's. Do you let the picture fill the screen or do you prefer the correct ratio?

Proper ratio is the best. Because that's usually how the show was filmed and meant to be displayed.

Before widescreen TVs and before widescreen was accepted as the norm, many people always wanted full screen. When they saw something in widescreen on their TV, they'd get mad about those "black bars" on the top and bottom, even though that was how the movie was supposed to be presented.

Now, your friends are just as ignorant as those people who blasted widescreen.

Now I'm weird. I can put up with a 4:3 picture filling a 16:9 screen because the black lines do my head in. However - I can't stand a 16:9 picture squashed up on a 4:3 screen - I have to have the black lines at the top and bottom to make it look normal. :-D

I use the right ratio so the image isn't distorted. It defeats the purpose to have hi def and then distort the image, so they're stupid, not you. Then again, I have HD so a lot of what I watch fills the widescreen.

I'm like you I prefer the proper ratio. Especially when watching DVD.

i fill the screen as the lines are annoying you dont lose any picture filling the screen

I fill the screen... why have a big screen if your only going to use half of it...but thats just me...

I fill the screen because I can't stand those black lines across the sides. :)

Bethany

fill the screen

I do either or. On my small LCD monitor I almost always stretch out.

I just watch my programs in wide screen and don't worry about it.