Aspect Ration ?'s (Avs video converter)

[VicSedition]

I have a an m2ts input file that is in a 16:9 ratio... its resolution is 1920x1080... The TV I am going to watch it on is 4:3... I have selected 4:3 under advanced and crop it somewhere in the neighborhood of 60%... my question is whether or not selecting 4:3 and zooming to 100% is what I would normally (or close to) see if it were in full screen/4:3 format? the dvd output is changed to 720x480... is too much being clipped? I usually drop back on the slider to make sure that I'm getting some of the width back and nothing important will be missing... it works but I still have slight mattes t and b. Its just a small annoyance and I'm not truly interested in other applications... just wonder I guess, and yes I will get a bigger tv preferably widescreen.

[guns1inger]

You know you can watch widescreen movies on a 4:3 TV ? The bars aren't in fact dangerous.

Personally, I think cropping any of the image to get rid the bars is cropping too much.

If you are happy to step over that line and start cropping, then how much is entirely up to you, as there is no "right amount" and therefore "too much". On some movies very important things happen at the edges of the frame, so there is no hard and fast rule.