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Burn in nothing?
They all should work, but I believe it's a setting in one of the
buried menus somewhere. It's no different than watching a 16:9
source on a 3:4 monitor, except the stripes are placed differently.
I think what he meant to say is that the reason widescreen plasma monitors
(and CRT-based projection TVs, while we're at it) usually stretch 4:3
material instead of pillarboxing it is that you would have uneven phosphor
wear between the pillarboxes and the active image area. If a true 4:3 mode
is offered, the pillarboxes are usually 50% gray instead of black. This is
supposed to offer about the same amount of long-term wear as most of the
stuff you watch.
With LCD (and DLP, too), burn-in isn't an issue. The pillarboxes on my
widescreen LCD are black.
One nice thing about a widescreen LCD is that a 4:3 signal carrying
letterboxed content (which is becoming more and more common) can be zoomed
to fill the screen without distortion. Actual 4:3 content can be shown
as-is without distortion and without burn-in. For true widescreen content
(most HDTV and DVD), having a wide screen kicks ass.
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