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Posted by Stan on 10/31/06 00:26
"unclejr" <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote in
news:1162242354.914964.279740@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:
> Stan wrote:
>> I recently purchased a 16:9 plasma TV. As this has a 1.78 aspect
>> ratio where are the "black bars" that should be at the top and bottom
>> of the screen (very thin, admittedly) when I play a 1.85 DVD?
>
> Probably one of two things:
>
> 1. Your TV has overscan and is cropping out the thin black bars that
> you are pining for.
Why would a plasma TV have overscan? I thought that was only designed into
CRT sets to compensate for picture shrinkage as components aged.
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> 2. The transfer is truly a 1.78:1 transfer instead of a 1.85:1 one --
> many studios are doing 16x9 "open matte" transfers this way.
Aren't I still losing part of the picture that the director considered
part of his work?
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