>>> Most TVs I see either have the whole picture distorted, or they have that
>>> "magic mode" that's supposed to fix the picture, but doesn't. It makes it
>>> so that stuff in the center looks OK, but stuff near the edges is horribly
>>> distorted.
>> You're sure of that? I just bought a LCD (a 600? LG model, nothing fancy),
>> and the remote has a neat "Ratio" button that lets me browse through a bunch
>> of different formats so that I can pick the best one depending on the input
>> (Internet, DVD, satellite etc.) and there's no distortion except when I
>> choose 16:9 for a 4:3 input.
> 
> Can't speak for The Invisible One, but I've only ever seen that non-uniform
> distortion on widescreen CRTs.

Lots of LCD TVs seem to have a "magnify" mode that stretches the sides 
so that the middle can be unstretched. It looks slightly less bad than 
unifirm stretching, but still no match for having a signal who's aspect 
ratio actually matches the screen.

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