[mythtv-users] Is Wider better?

[barbex]

> > One thing that a monitor most likely does not have but a TV is the
> > ability of "zooming" the picture. I can cycle through various settings
> > on our TV and change the aspect ratio of the picture.
>
> Myth does this in software so there's no need to worry about if your
> display can do it or not.
>

Hmm, maybe I'm doing this wrong but I never got that to work. For Myth
the content was always 4:3 because that's how it is broadcasted. Myth
was either shrinking "real 4:3" content or keeping the pseudo
widescreen stuff letterboxed.
Since I never really change the "zooming", I don't actually have to
deal with the second remote all that much.

On my "list of things to change and improve about my box" that feature
is very far down low ;-), preceded by lots and lots of other stuff
like getting reliable EPG data here in Germany, getting mythwelcome to
work and other things. So much to do, so little time...