Movie Screen

What happens when you watch a full screen movie on a wide screen TV?

I know when you watch a widescreen movie on a regular TV you’ll get the lines on the top and bottom but what happens if you watch a full screen movie on a wide screen TV? Do you get lines on the sides or does it distort it or what?

It will center it in the middle of the tv so there will be a bar on each side of the screen, However HDTV’s come with built in stretch modes to stretch the image but it will distort it (stretchs objects) but after a while of watching it stretched its nonbothersome. Plus after you get HDTV your probably not going to want to watch Standard definition TV anyway.

Mêlée – On the Movie Screen