Tommy Stenberg

"Leon Dexter" <leondexterNOSPAM@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Tommy Stenberg" <nobodysfool@dont.exist> wrote in message
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>> Hmmm, I've yet to see a 16:9 only game. Unless you consider The Getaway
>> as
>> one of them, where your screen "grows" a bit wider if you use 16:9 mode.
> Can
>> you give me any examples? Because 99,9% of the games that have a 16:9
>> mode
>> that I've tried don't "downgrade" for 4:3, because that's the default.
>> Anyway, at least from where I come, a widescreen mode is almost a given.
> And
>> if you consider buying a TV, you have to look hard if you're looking for
>> anything else than 16:9.
>
> Resident Evil 4 is 16:9 only, most recently. And no, most games don't
> "downgrade" to 4:3, I know, usually they run worse in 16:9 if anything.
> It's movies that get the shaft in 4:3. I'm just saying that games might
> be
> headed that way too, since they'll be made to support HDTV resolutions in
> the future, all of which are widescreen by default.
> I don't know where you've been shopping for TVs, but it must be the
> widescreen store or something. Probably 3/4 or more of televisions are
> 4:3,
> still. And 90+ percent of TVs in homes are still 4:3.
>
>

Resident Evil 4 isn't 16:9. They just made it look that way to seem more
cinematic. Either that, or they couldn't get the game run at decent speed in
full-screen mode. If I want Resident Evil 4 to look "right" i have to use
4:3, thus I get black borders on the side AND top and bottom. I could use
the stretch mode, but usually, the stretch mode makes the graphics unclear
and shabby (like when you zoom in on pictures on the pc). So no, Resident
Evil 4 is a 4:3 letterboxed game, not a 16:9 game.

Tommy