pls help- why is the ps3 displaying movies in 4.3 and not widescreen?

Yep... it just upscales them to the correct ratio.

There may be some reasoning to the other mode if, say, you had a 4:3 TV and you found the quality to be better by using Full Screen mode from the PS3, but changing the aspect ratio on the TV to Letterbox 16:9...

The other reason I've found is if you're watching 4:3 material, normal mode will upscale to the height of the theoretical letterbox on a 4:3 TV (in other words, the image will have black borders round all edges). Full Screen mode will upscale 4:3 material to the full size of the screen.

Hope that lot hasn't confused you... still, getting an answer in 5 minutes isn't too bad, eh? ;)
 
whilst someone is answering the above question could someone advise me the settings i should be using to upscale to a 45 widescreen tv. should it be normal 16*9
 
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