[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Widescreen -v- Letterbox

[Madeleine]

Each film is filmed or at least "printed" with different ratios, I don't know why this is, but we check each DVD we buy now (even the HD DVDs all vary, I haven't noticed more HDs fitting than non-HDs).  If you look at the ratios you can tell if they will fit a widescreen tv or not.  But many DVDs including PS actually say they have kept the black bars to preserve the theatrical experience.  I am not sure if all Widescreen TVs are the same but we have a zoom feature that allows us to stretch the picture out a bit to fill the screen better, but with PS we still have a little black at the top and bottom.  A big benefit to this format is that if you use subtitles they appear on the black portion of the screen making them much easier to read.  But it is still quite frustrating that we bought a widescreen tv to get rid of the black bars, and find out we still have to put up with them!  :)  
 illyana delorean <illyana at mindspring.com> wrote:The reason you're still getting the black lines is that practically 
no widescreen films are 16x9; therefore, they would not fit your TV 
perfectly unless they got stretched-out. I believe that some films 
shot in HD are 16x9, but not any normal films.

Maybe GulPlum can confirm this, as he seems to be the resident 
widescreen expert!

illyana


Madeleine wrote:
>Actually that is not entirely true.  We have the 16x9 Sony (the 
>widescreen), and most widescreen movies, including PS, are formatted 
>to still have the black bars at the top and bottom to "preserve the 
>theatrical experience for our home use".  We thought our tv was 
>broken when we first hooked it up at Christmas.  Now we have noticed 
>that most movies you will still get the black bars even with 
>"widescreen" formats.   :)
>Steve Binch <stbinch at actionsd.com> wrote:Most new HDTVs are the 
>shape of the widescreen so that you can use your
>entire screen without having to see the black lines on the top and bottom of
>the screen. These are the future of television and our children will
>remember back to our square televisions and chuckle.

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