punkass1276

i bought a Sharp 27R-FS1 recently. My question is stupid but i ask anyway. It is a flat tube TV which is 27". It measures 27" diagnolly, the height and width of the screen are not the same. Does this mean I have a widescreen,pan and scan, or letterbox television????

mc_delta_t

all tvs are wider than they are tall

that is why it is called "4x3" when they are talking about screen shape (4 wide to the 3 high)

but if a movie fills up the screen it is fullframe

Josh Z

Televisions are not precisely square. They are "squarish". A standard television has an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, meaning that it is 1.33 times wider than tall (this equates to the mathematical ratio of 4:3). Widescreen televisions are 1.78:1 (aka 16:9). All television screen sizes are measured diagonally.

skar

It sounds like you are looking for the correct setting on your DVD player. You should set it to "4:3 letterbox" or possibly just "letterbox".