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Posted by Walter Traprock on 12/03/06 07:25
> > There should be NO compromise in movie playback. Problem is, too many
> > people literally can't tell there is any distortion. How often have
> > you seen tvs with uncalibrated colour or basketball player stretched or
> > squashed, midget-looking actors and the idiots watching them could care
> > less? The moment you start taking cues from those people, you might as
> > well jump off a bridge.
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> By 'compromise', I refer only to the native shape of the raster field.
> Of course all films should present, within that field, in their
> original aspect ratios, i.e., with no squashing. (Thus, until
> Hollywood makes a true 16:9 movie... that'll always mean gray bars.)
With a good TV there are NEVER any grey bars! Bars only belong on
the sides of the picture when the aspect ratio is narrower than
Academy, and the bars tend to be black, because regular tvs don't have
burn-in problems.
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