Question about native or natural

[Blu-dock Saint]

I've been running my 37hl67 for a lil over half a year now, and in aspect ratio's it has the settings for native or natural, I'm sure other hdtv's out there do the same as well.

What I'm trying to figure out is should I be watching the movies in native or natural? Natural gives a little less black bars, which I dont mind the black bars, but of course that means I'm losing some of the side picture, but I've read on websites that watching it in natural is like watching it how the director intended, is there any truth to this?

[aramis109]

Originally Posted by Blu-dock Saint

I've been running my 37hl67 for a lil over half a year now, and in aspect ratio's it has the settings for native or natural, I'm sure other hdtv's out there do the same as well.

What I'm trying to figure out is should I be watching the movies in native or natural? Natural gives a little less black bars, which I dont mind the black bars, but of course that means I'm losing some of the side picture, but I've read on websites that watching it in natural is like watching it how the director intended, is there any truth to this?

Ya know, I hate how tv's name their modes. It's confusing.

I'm guessing that natural is slightly zoomed in. Typically you don't want that if you want what the director intended. What they intended is the AR on the disc. Native may mean the tv's native resolution or the resolution that is being outputted. I'd pick that one (is the tv 1080 or 720?) and check the owner's manual on it too.

[Blu-dock Saint]

Originally Posted by aramis109

Ya know, I hate how tv's name their modes. It's confusing.

I'm guessing that natural is slightly zoomed in. Typically you don't want that if you want what the director intended. What they intended is the AR on the disc. Native may mean the tv's native resolution or the resolution that is being outputted. I'd pick that one (is the tv 1080 or 720?) and check the owner's manual on it too.

Thanks for the input, when I watch it does zoom in the movie a bit, was doing some more reading, and native outputs it at what the tv is running at, hence 1080 or 720, guess it just confused me on other websites when they talked about natural like that.

[allstar780]

yeah Native is zero-overscan mode