Old TV shows / anything shot on tape - no need for blu-ray?

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Originally Posted by bageleaterkkjji

me too...anyone who watches stretched out tv has to be retarded...sort of like this guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wQq9YWZ568

Well then I guess I'm retarded.

However, I should state that I would prefer to watch the shows pillar boxed.

But I had a problem a while ago where my wife and I watched a lot of 4:3 content pillar boxed for probably a good couple of weeks without much of anything that filled up the whole screen being watched inbetween. And then on the left side of the screen, for a while, that section (where the pillar box had been) was darker, and then even after that cleared up, there was a line going right down where the end of the pillar box met up with where the show is displayed.

Luckily we have an LCD TV and this wasn't permanent, but it took a good while for it to go away and has freaked me out ever since.

So, I watch a lot of that type of content on the "Zoom 2" setting on my TV, which kind of does a medium of stretching the content to fit the screen, but also stretches it up and down a little bit, cutting off a little from the top and bottom in exchange for not having the picture as badly distorted horizantally as it otherwise would be. I prefer pillar box, but I do worry about doing it too much.

Lately, I will watch something pillarboxed if it's only a single, 1/2 hour program and I will be watching something else that fills up the whole screen afterwards.

But I am going to sit down and watch a bunch of episodes of a 4:3 TV show on DVD, due to my concern over this issue, I will unfotunately end up watching it in Zoom 2 mode.