[philthespark]

It made me chuckle reading this post, I remember buying my first flat screen tv (40" plasma) and there were lots of programmes on that were for narrow screen,how annoying was that? I'd spent a load of cash on a fancy tv and was still watching a narrow picture.
I agree with people calling it stretchyvision too, you'd press the button to go to widescreen, panoramic, cinema, or whatever other setting you had, but it never looked right, a bit like those huge magnifying glasses they had in the early days. My grandad was a big fan of something called "old moores almanac" it had all kinds of weird crazy things you could build.He'd seen one of these magnifiers in there I think, and bought one, he thought it was great, my grandmother hated it, and they had loads of rows over it.