Your TV sucks! (Wrong aspect ratio and shape)

[crutzulee]

Reading through this thread has given me a chuckle as I really can see both sides of this...

I don't know about conspiracies or having the TV manufacturers make multiple aspect ratio screens (Jesus, it took them forever just to get to 16:9..LOL) but for those of you casting aspersions about the OP's mental state, I have a few exes that have given me that "look" over the years over the lengths I've gone to to bring the cinema home...LOL

From the massive console TV I dug out of someone's trash that took up the entirety of the basement apartment I shared with a girl in highschool, through my girlfriend in University who came home to find me balancing a 50" RCA rear projection screen on a couple of office chairs ( I was trying to make sure that I maximized the cinematic view of my letterboxed LaserDiscs on a 4:3 screen) through an ex wife shaking her head at the "custom" mattes that I made for each aspect ratio (and the preparation time this took each and every time we sat down to watch a movie). This carried through on various projectors from a big 3 gun SONY CRT, through DLPs at 480i,720p,1080p,4K,4KHDR units until I finally got my first JVC...The ironic part is that unless the movie is in the TODD AO ratio, I now ALWAYS have black bars...and although I have mattes built, I can't remember when I last used them... Of course my present wife of 25 years totally gets why the entire room and ceiling tiles are painted jet black and why I have blacked out material covering the ceiling and walls a few feet out from the screen..LOL...... It looks like hell with the lights up...but when a movie fades to black..It's like being in a sensory deprivation chamber... which according to some of you is right where I belong...