In what may go down as a pretty good example of RTFM(read the *expletive deleted* manual), i was this close to buying a new DVD player to go with the HDTV i picked up a few months ago. my existing DVD player, using what was once the holy grail of video throughput-component cables, was leaving me a bit...let's say...underwhelmed. picture was fuzzy, sometimes a little blurry, and black was not black. black was a few shades off gray. the picture never fit the screen and when it did, was pixelated.
So i start shopping. with prospect of a new toy, and trying to steer clear of the HDDVD vs Blu-Ray crap, i consider the "upscaling" dvd player. this is supposed to take care of the conversion and make everything "fit". so i asked a friend for advice. he obliges. but in doing so, gets the wheels in motion and i go back and check the manual of my existing DVD player. turns out i never changed the aspect ratio to fit the 16:9 ratio as opposed to the 4:3 ratio of the old tube.
ugh. it's 2007. shouldn't these things just take care of themselves?
2 comments:
FIRST POST!
Agreed. They really need to dumb this stuff down for us. Especially me. If our TV stopped working for some reason, and Beeps wasn't home, I'd be LOST!
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