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Originally Posted by postmodel
When I was at my in-laws we were watching something that was in 4:3 and my father in law went on this weird rant about how with technology today “why am I looking at a square on a rectangular screen?” My brothers/sister-in law were all high and mighty in agreement then when I explained why it wasn’t filling up the screen and if it did why it would be an issue the room went silent and felt so awkward.
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The one thing I've heard that works is to cut out a 16x9 outline of a present-day TV screen and a 4:3 image representing an old TV or movie picture. Then ask them to position them so they get what they want. The answer, of course, is they can't.
You can sometimes emphasize your point by mounting the 4:3 on a piece of black paper.