I have some questions and thoughts about roundies.

[MRX37]

Browsing through here, and taking a look at pictures of roundie sets that their owners are obviously quite proud of, I have thought up some questions, and I have a few other thoughts.

Why were roundies made, when as far as I know, the NTSC picture has always been rectangular? I've seen some old 40's sets with rectangle screens, so why were "fishbowl shaped" screens made to begin with?

Also, do roundies draw the corners of an image? or does something cut them off and convert the image into a "fishbowl" shape?


This may be biased, seeing as I grew up with rectangle screens, but with a roundie, you can't see the corners of an image (Channel logos, etc), so while they may have great color reproduction, I would think a rectangle screen would be more desireable since it shows all of the picture (Well, most of it, depending on overscan)