New TV

[fleetfootmike]

Finally admitted the current 28" TV had had it on Sunday, when it took us 10 mins of hitting it to get a picture. We succumbed to a very nice Hyundai 37" widescreen LCD screen.

Its one fault is it appears not to do auto-widescreen/normal switching. This is compounded by the fact that I appear to have married someone who cannot distinguish between a widescreen image shrunk to 4:3 and one displayed correctly at 16:9! *boggle*

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[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I appear to have married someone who cannot distinguish between a widescreen image shrunk to 4:3 and one displayed correctly at 16:9

That's because she's not square. *g,d,rvvvf*

(That said, congrats on the new hardware. Sounds tres cool, indeed.)

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

My hunch is that there's too many bits of kit fighting to decide whether pin 8's at 12V or 6V. Going to buy a switch box.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

The human[1] brain is an amazing piece of processing kit. Give it a picture, however distorted, and it will try to make sense out of it (even if it's coming in some totally wrong medium, like points on the skin or a signal fed straight in with an electrode). It will auto-correct for all sorts of things as long as it knows what it's supposed to look like (upside down, mirrored, one axis shortened, it doesn't care). I suspect that she just has a very fast auto-correction system.

[1] Not that I'm accusing anyone of being human, of course, I'm not speciesist *g*.

[(Anonymous)]

Are we talking about the young lady I recall prancing around a Peterborough hotel with tiger feet?

I assume you would notice stripes, not that I anticipate that it would make any difference to you now.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I boggle with you. While I could watch it, I would be able to tell, fairly easily.

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

I'm like Anne. I can't tell either. It looks weird for about 3 seconds and *bam* I assume that all television should look just that way.

What can I say? I'm a Philistine...

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Some movies on DVD, I can struggle to tell the difference.

[occams_pyramid]

She's got root on the TV?