Surely buying a projector is the way to go at this sort of price! Oh well, shouldnt really concern myself anyway, i'd never be able to justify paying that sort of money on a TV!
This is an undeniably awesome looking pict-o-cube - but my major concern here is just where is the high definition 21:9 content coming from, and where are the devices configured to output at that AR?
Without that you'll have a hugely expensive set running everything with gigantic vertical borders at best, and frames stretched / zoomed to an unwatchable degree at worst.
@life The Pioneer BDP-LX91 blu-ray player has a 21:9 anamorphic stretch mode.... for the bargain price of £1600.
I'd say any one with any sense would wait for the 2nd or 3rd generation 21:9 TV's for LED back-lights, 240hz and whatever else is coming up in future LCD's.
@life - funnily enough most Blu-ray discs support 21:9 aspect ratios and through clever pixel mapping it will support 16:9 content without any stretching. 4:3 content will have vertical black bars.
Would you care to explain the 21:9 from 16:9 by "clever pixel mapping" some time? - Maybe not here in the comments, but elsewhere? I can't get my head round how you stretch something without er, stretching it! On my pj you can use zoom /crop to adjust the ratio, but this is somewhat different -isn't it?
Surely, at the very least, the far edges ( of the 21:9) if remapped would show 'warping' when the edge content is more than say some grey /black or non detailed background.... I had an old Sony TV set that demonstrated this poor 'smart' stretch.
I saw a demo of this on a gadget show the other day, the pixel mapping isn't clever at all, it just puts a wide angle filter on it so the edges are stretched. and you should see how bad it makes 4:3 tv shows look. it's a cool idea, but not really practical in anyway unless you're rich enough to have a TV just for watching movies on
@gezrick - Aha! I thought it would be something like this. My Sony calls it `Smart` mode (& I think my old Philips called it `Panoramic`). You do get used to it; I had to have it switched on all the time on my old Philips Plasma to avoid uneven screen burn, although now I have a Sony LCD TV I watch everything `as intended by the director` (as they oft like to say in the industry). I would imagine 4:3 stretched in this way on a 21:9 telly would indeed look awful!
I have seen it myself and couldn't really see any stretching in the picture and as far as i understood it, 4:3 content was only stretched to 16:9 with vertical black bars.
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