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Basically, widescreen TVs almost always work perfectly with widescreen movies and HDTV content (only little bars when there are bars at all, and you don't have to play with the TV to make them work, just set the tuner/DVD player once), but make you push buttons to display 4:3 content unsquished
This was not the case with my in-laws widescreen HDTV. It displayed 4:3 and 16:9 television just fine, as well as DVDs, with no additional buttons to press.
The only real problem with the TV is that RotK looked so sharp that a lot of the theatrically beautiful composite work became painfully visible.
Those black bars are actually contained in the signal, unlike with anamorphic DVDs.
See, the Best Buy guy (I know, I know) tried to assure me that it would crop vertically, so 4:3 broadcast 16:9 would look better. But who knows? That TV was squishing the hell out of the picture, and in the end, for a 26" diagonal, you end up with very little vertical screen height.
I just bought a new TV, 27". I thought about HDTV, but figured to not spend the cash now, since I turn TVs over every three years or so. It'll be good.
I have a program that moves songs from iPod to iTunes, but I don't remember what it's called now. If you want I'll check tomorrow.
Is there a (possible for the home amateur) way to record the sound from a DVD without the track that would go to the center-channel speaker? I need a soundtrack of WWII background, and I wanted to use the opening 20ish minutes of Saving Private Ryan, but I don't want it to be immediately identifiable, or to pull attention, so I'd like to remove the dialogue, etc. I can get this while listening by disconnecting my center speaker, but I'm wondering if there's a way to somehow filter out that track while recording.
Help?
There are rumors that Apple is going to release a Monitorless, sub-$500 Mac.
OK, there have been rumors to that effect for years, but they're suddenly more concrete.
I have a really dumb question: I have an iChat account. Can I use iChat to talk to someone on AIM? If so, is there something in the iChat menu that can help me do this?
Any Filemaker Pro users about?
I have a calculated field which produces a number. I have the layout formatted so that the field is showing as a dollar amount with a dollar sign and 2 zeros. I now need to use this figure in another field (which I will send as an email. Within the field, I cannot get the formatting to have a dollar sign or zeros. If the amount ends in 50 cents, it shows as .5, not .50. Does anyone have any ideas?
Nevermind-- I think I figured it out.
anyone here have ReplayTV? opinions? it's about $50 cheaper than Tivo and seems to have all the same features. so that's why i'm asking.
