14th February 2007, 2:31 AM
Yes, but your TV might. A lot of widescreen TVs will stretch the narrow screen images to fit, and a lot have the option to properly proportion the screen. So the screen can still be distorted if played on the wrong TV in the wrong mode.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)