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Posted by RobMac on 04/10/06 18:26
<michelebargeman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1144683216.102066.35810@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I was at the store looking at some wide screen monitors. I also saw
> some wide-screen television. I noticed that some wide screen television
> were displaying movies with "black bar" on top and bottom - just like
> 4:3 type televison. I asked the employe, however, that didn't make
> sense to me. Does anyone know why wide-screen monitor will be
> displaying black bars?
>
> Does anyone know if I'll have same type of problem if I buy wide-screen
> monitor?
>
> Any help would be appricated.
>
>
You will have the same "problem" if you consider some widescreen movies to
be a "problem" in and of themselves.
The new TV sets are in 16:9 format (most HDTV programming is/will be in this
ratio), which is essentially 1.78:1 (standard analog TV's of the past were
4:3, or 1.33:1).
Movies now-a-days come in several flavors, mostly 1.85:1 and 2.35:1, as you
can see from the ratio, the 1.85 is closest to the newer TVs (1.78:1) so
DVDs with the 1.85:1 aspect usually just round off to 1.78:1 in order to
completely fill the HDTV screen, but some of the bigger "popcorn movies"
(The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Peter Jackson's King Kong, the Star Wars
movies and thousands of others) use the wider 2.35:1 aspect, and because the
new TV screen is only 1.78:1 there is blank space above and below (hence the
black bars).
This is not a mistake or a problem (unless you believe there are hidden
images under the black bars that will unravel the meaning of the existence
of man), it's the way the movies are meant to be seen, in their full
theatrical aspect (you don't notice this at the movie theater because
there's usually a drape or other distraction), sometimes movie screens have
movable sides that widen for the 2.35:1 movies, since a home TV can't
stretch itself, one screen size was chosen (1.78:1) so anything bigger than
that will have the black bars.
Embrace the full image, ignore the blank spaces (there's nothing meant to be
there, you're not "missing" anything), and free your mind to worry about
other more important things, like why you can park on driveways and drive on
parkways.
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