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Posted by Jay G. on 04/11/06 02:57
On 10 Apr 2006 08:33:36 -0700, michelebargeman@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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?
Other people here have posted detailed descriptions of OAR and examples of
when a widescreen film might be wider than a widescreen TV.
However, I'll posit another reason why you may have seen black bars on some
widescreen TVs: The TV wasn't set up correctly.
Widecreen TVs have a variety of viewing modes to watch video. One of these
is a stretch mode that will stretch and 4:3 video to fill the 16:9 screen.
This is great for those who want the TV screen "filled" when watching 4:3
material, as long as they don't mind everything looking a little too wide.
Now, with the letterboxed movie you were watching, it's possible the movie
is being sent to the TV as a 4:3 letterboxed film, and then stretched to
fill the screen. If this movie is from an anamorphic DVD, that means the
video is first shrunk to fit a 4:3 frame, then stretched to fit a 16:9 TV.
If the film was sent properly, you wouldn't see any black bars.
Go back and check the video of the widescreen TVs with the black bars. Do
the people seem a little too "wide" on the WS TV? If yes, it's not showing
the film correctly. If that's too subtle, check the size of the black bars
and compare them to the size of the black bars on a 4:3 TV showing the same
movie. A 2.35:1 film like Star Wars will still show black bars on a 16:9
TV, but they will be much smaller than the black bars shown on a 4:3 TV of
the same film. If the black bars are the same size, the TV is displaying
the film incorrectly.
-Jay
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