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Posted by Sean O'Hara on 12/04/06 08:00
In the Year of the Dog, the Great and Powerful Harkness declared:
> Sean O'Hara wrote:
>
>>The standard widescreen TV aspect ratio is 1.77:1. If a 1.85:1 or
>>2:35:1 movie fits without blackbars, your set has serious overscan
>>problems.
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> Well, if your 1,77 TV shows 1.85 movies without letterboxing, then your
> overscan is just about 1%, which isn't really serious.
>
True, it's no worse than the difference between 1.37:1 films on
1.33:1 sets. (Although any time I watch an old movie on a standard
set and there's a close-up of a letter or book, I end up zooming out
because the old time cinematographers shot it so the text goes right
to the edge of frame.)
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Sean O'Hara | http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com
Wally: We're as close as an elderly gay man and a straight teenage
boy can be.
--Mission Hill
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