[Xenalyte]

On standard TVs, compressed widescreen, aka letterbox, versions play across the middle of the screen. Horizontal black bands appear above and below the picture.

Or you could do like my best friend (a FReeper who will remain unnamed) . . . enlarge the picture to fill the screen, so everyone's stretched one way or another.

[Modernman]

Or you could do like my best friend (a FReeper who will remain unnamed) . . . enlarge the picture to fill the screen, so everyone's stretched one way or another.

(Warning- male gloating ahead)

Why not just go out and buy a 60" lcd widescreen TV so that you can stick it to your friend who now has the second-best tv of the group and is, therefore, no longer the alpha male?