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Posted by Paul S. Person on 11/02/05 17:31
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:04:20 GMT, zeno <zeno333@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I am confused...I remember last year seeing on TV 2 version of the
>movie, one had blank space on the top and bottom of my 1.333 aspect
>ratio TV screen.....so that would indicate a version of the film that
>was not 1.3333
>
>yet i read on the net in reviews people insisting that the movie was
>filmed in 1.3333??? what gives on this..
>
>And is the new verison of the movie that came a version that shows the
>entire movie, including the parts on the left and rignt edeges....i
>just want to know if the new DSVD spcial edition shows the entire movie
>or not...
>
>And what the story was on the 2 version that was shown on TV...???
First, IMdB is your friend. You should use it to research this issue.
In this case, the "Alternate Versions" page is particularly
interesting, especially if the version you saw had black bars of
non-trivial height.
Second, most films that are considered to be shown at their original
aspect ratio (OAR) when shown at 1.33:1 were actually presented at
1.37:1 but are considered to be OAR by convention.
In theory, a 1.37:1 film (such as /The Wizard of Oz/), to be OAR,
would have small black bars at the top and bottom of a 4:3 TV screen.
In practice, it just isn't done that way. The credits (once the story
started I ceased to notice) for /Dark Passage/ appear to have a black
bar at the bottom, and it is 1.37:1, so the occasional exception may
exist.
Most TVs employ a practice called "overscan", which guarantees that
the right and left edges are not visible. Letterboxing helps, but does
not cure, this problem, which will continue until TV sets can be
adjusted the same way computer monitors can be. A good test for this
is the start of /The Court Jester/: the frame which eventually appears
around the opening credits should be centered and all four outer edges
should be visible (when shown letterboxed at the OAR). The frame has
enough detail that, by comparing TV with computer, you can actually
count how many pixels are lost to overscan -- and how many pixels
off-center your image is.
--
"I begin to envy Petronius."
"I have envied him long since."
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