16:9 or 4:3?

A high definition television is 16:9 Widescreen by default. Many companies produce higher resolution TVs that are still in the 4:3 format and market these as HDTVs, though they are not "true" HDTVs. Either way when buying a new TV most people want to know if they should get 4:3 or 16:9. The answer is not as simple. A 16:9 TV is great for watching DVDs and High Definition programming as both are in wide screen formats. However, all 16:9 televisions will either show grey borders on the sides of SDTV programming or stretch the screen to fill the entire screen. The later makes people and objects on the TV look stretched and often people find annoying. The framing of the picture in grey borders is annoying to some people as well. Which you will use is up to you. This is one of the reasons people are still sticking to regular 4:3 TVs and many times don't make the high definition upgrade.