I just helped a friend hook up his widescreen. Beautiful picture. Unless you count the fact that everyone on the screen had gained 30-40 pounds. You COULD watch it in stretch mode, where everything was the right proportion, but then everything was missing the top and bottom 1/8 of the screen. So watching ANY sport was out of the question in that mode. Or you COULD use letterbox, which puts these big gray bars on either side of the screen, but the manual tells you not to do this, or you could burn in the bars fairly quickly. I think I'll wait till more things are broadcast in widescreen. And out of curiosity, WHY WOULDN'T THEY MAKE THE BARS BLACK?!?! There could be no burnin then. It just makes no sense to me.