Oh shot glass..

My brother and I where trying to transfere my songs onto his computer. Well his phone is not synced with my itunes, so it did this weird thing and now his phone has all my informationa, contacts, photos, etc. How do we get his stuff back? Oh and I do not know if this will help in any way but his phone is a 4s and mine is a 5s.

Here's a thought: (I'm making up the numbers for illustration only)
You shoot 4x3 so your image is, say 600 wide and 450 pixels high. You drop that into a 16x9 wide screen project that is, say 800 pixels wide and 450 high. You either leave it in a box or you scale it up and crop off the top and bottom as your sides reach the edges. So you're throwing away a bunch of your horizontal lines, say 100 of them, AND you're blending the remaining lines together to fill in the greater number of horizontal lines that are available. You're blowing up 500 lines to fit into 800 lines and this will diminish your image quality dramatically.
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