Non-anamorphic discs; how do ya watch 'em?

[wergo]

Zoomed, with blurrier picture or 4:3, with black bars on all four sides?

(assuming, of course, you have a 16:9 TV)

[trubiet]

Depending on your TV, you may have a "Full" mode. My 52 Toshiba has a full mode that really does not degrade the picture. Or you could watch it the correct way!

[Spiky]

Zoomed, with barely blurrier picture. But then, my current Panny is ridiculously better than my former Tosh at upconversion.

[eedoon]

zoomed it. The result is somewhat softer picture... but I don't mind it that much.

[DVD Polizei]

I stretch the fucker. Yeah, that's right.

[ATX]

the sony in my living room stays on "full" when watching dvd's

[GMLSKIS]

the sony in my living room stays on "full" when watching dvd's

Same here.

[Boba Fett]

zoomed it. The result is somewhat softer picture... but I don't mind it that much.
ditto

[Grain]

Zoomed, using an OPPO player @ 1.2 or 1.3X magnification.

[Nick Martin]

I find that if I zoom with the TV it looks fine, but if I use the DVD player's internal stretch function in the setup menu (16:9 full or something like that) than it looks pixelated.

[GreenMonkey]

Generally black bars on all sides. It's still 60" or so.

[Ozymandius]

I replace them with the Anamorphic version or blu-ray :) (So far I only have 2 non-anamorphic DVD left)

[Brian Shannon]

Without trying to be a smart a$$ I just put them in my player and hit play

[Canadian Bacon]

on my regular TV

[cultshock]

My TV has a "wide zoom" option, which is a combination of some zooming and some stretching (better than straight zooming or straight stretching). Still not ideal, but better than nothing I guess. But I'd still rather watch such a disc on a regular 1.33:1 TV (which is how I prefer to watch letterboxed laserdiscs as well) or try to ditch the disc for an anamorphic one if I can.

[Nth Power]

I usually end up watching it with black bars all around.

[Kory]

My main place to watch DVDs is on my computer's 22" widescreen monitor, at the moment. In VLC media player, you can right click on something non-anamorphic and go to Crop, and then 16:9. This does the trick as it ends up cropping out all the extra and it looks just like an anamorphic DVD.