Posted by Jordan on 11/07/05 09:07

One-Shot Scot wrote:
> "Jordan" <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:1131331215.624076.259540@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > It's also called "Window Boxing". You'll see it on the credits to old
> > Warner Brothers cartooons too.
> >
> > - Jordan
>
>
> So what's the routine? Is this done only with academy ratio (1.37:1) movies,
> or were there some oddball ratios which were in circulation in the early
> 1930s?

It's not really a ratio thing, it's a television over-scan thing. It's
to prevent parts of the image from being cropped off by the television
over-scan.

You can see the over-scan yourself if you have a DVD player with a zoom
feature. Zoom the picture on any DVD to 1/2 size, you will see parts of
the picture that are normally not visible when the image is full size.
The parts that are lost fall in the over-scan area.

- Jordan

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