On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:56:31 -0400, Kenneth wrote:

> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> 
>>   A stretched image bothers me a lot. I just *can't* watch anything if
>> the image is stretched. It just looks wrong and annoying. It seems that
>> I'm the only person in the world with this problem, though.
>>
>>
> And me.  But I gave up on trying to point this out to friends. They seem
> blissfully happy. I've even seen some folks watching widescreen movies
> that are 'extra'-stretched. I don't even know how that's possible, but
> they figured out a way...

You take a film shot in 16:9 and project it on a 16:9 screen using a 
setup for cinemascope - that'd do it.  Black bars at the top and bottom 
and a compressed image in the middle. :-)

I managed that one by mistake once in our home theater.

Jim

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