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

[illyana delorean]

Madeline wrote:

>  But many DVDs including PS actually say they have kept the black 
>bars to preserve the theatrical experience.

That's strange, because PS is 2.35:1. So, it wouldn't sync-up 
perfectly with your 16:9 TV no matter what! Funny that they put that 
little "disclaimer" there - maybe so that people with widescreen TV's 
won't think that there's something wrong with their TV (or try to 
return the DVD because it's not perfectly flush with the TV).

For the sake of curiosity: does the "zoom" feature on your TV make 
the picture look strange? I am assuming that either it cuts off the 
sides of the picture (in order to minimize distortion) or it 
stretches the picture up-and-down in order to fill the screen, but 
that would horribly distort everything. I am hoping that it uses the 
first method, but that would kind of be useless since you're cutting 
out parts of the picture. Please explain!

illyana
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