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So many movies in 2.4:1 and similarly wide aspect ratios, and even some new TV shows are now formatted this way (Genndy Tartakosky's Primal, the Star Wars shows), yet TV manufacturers continue only to offer flat 1.78:1 (16:9) TVs that make the wider picture more distant with black bars at the top and bottom. It's not as bad as in the 4:3 tube days, but it's not good. They should be 5120x2160 with a very subtle curve that keeps the picture from bulging out at you.

I know most of you watch movies alone. There's no one at your side bothered about the disproportion at an angle. Let's say, for once, you did have someone over. A bro would let their visitor sit in the center and take the side from which the curve of the screen is skewed. A girlfriend? Women can't sit through (your) movies anyway.

If having a square picture with giant black bars at the side when viewing 4:3 content bothers you, simply paint the wall black and you will never see the black bars in the dark again.

It's a conspiracy. The movie industry doesn't want you to have constant image height at home at an affordable price because it would nullify one of the few remaining points of legitimacy the dying cinema has left. Projectors have too many drawbacks at far higher prices to be a realistic solution.