I finally joined the world in 2005 and bought an HDTV. As I'm sure you all know, my older consoles (which would be all of my consoles) look like crap. The Wii, running on component in 480p with the 16:9 aspect adjustment actually doesn't look too bad, but it also doesn't seem to fill the screen completely on some things (MM9, for instance). This got me thinking.

Why doesn't there exist a TV/monitor that actually scales incoming signals rather than stretching them? Or am I thinking too digital and the older consoles don't actually work anything like a computer in the first place? What I mean is if I'm feeding a 480p 4:3 feed for instance, the TV *could* perform a 2:1 scale and have a perfect looking screen while losing only 120 vertical lines. I've done this from my PC over HDMI with emulators and it looks fantastic.