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Old 08-09-2009, 12:52 PM   #99
Scottnot
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Originally Posted by james01 View Post
... if you tried it you would know it cuts nothing off and it is not a zoom ...
Let's not be so hasty; what PFC5 said was:
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PFC5: If you do not see any distortion . . . that would mean one of two things . . . Either they are zooming . . . or it is stretching the content
The operative word, of course, being "If".
If there is no distortion, then there must be zooming. I think he took you at your word that you really did not see any distortion.

Now, what your wrote earlier was:
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James01: I do NOT have any problems reading the text at the Bottom ... If there is some distortion I really do not see it ..
And the operative words here are "If" and "do not see it"

When I first looked at the image on the website, it certainly did not appear to be distorted. Although I "sensed" that it was not "quite right".
However, when I enlarged the "perpetual aspect" image it was painfully obvious that the image was greatly distorted -
the girl's face in the 4:3 was thin, while in the "p-r" it was pudgy if not fat.

The program does distort the image.
This will be very distracting to some people and, I guess, not even apparent to others.
Also, I am certain that the noticeability of the distortion will be, to some degree, content dependent.

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