The future has no black bars! 21:9 HDTV

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Originally Posted by Texitura

Of course, most 16:9 TVs have a stretch function for 4:3 because so many people would rather watch a distorted image than have black bars on the sides.

You mean like in the Event Horizon and The Truman Show Blu-rays where they encode it with a distorted picture?

The stretch function could be for when a broadcast signal is sent but the aspect ratio flag isn't sent or received correctly (or you timeshift a recording but the flag isn't recorded properly/at all).

Wouldn't a Blu-ray with independent stretching modes (X & Y axis) be useful for discs like The Truman Show where they've been encoded incorrectly, or would you just watch it how it was encoded - distorted - even though that wasn't what the director intended?