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Posted by Lincoln Spector on 12/06/06 01:21
"~consul" <consul@INVALIDdolphins-cove.com> wrote in message
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> moviePig wrote:
>> Walter Traprock wrote:
>>> Folks, you should know, there's HDTV in standard aspect ratio!
>>> Go for flat screen, in Academy ratio as it's now possible.
>> Might make sense *if* your set's to be used only for 4:3 movies. For
>> the rest of us, though, 16:9's a reasonable compromise (between 1.85:1
>> and 2:35:1)... with 4:3 getting shortest shrift, which is justifiable
>> considering that older movies generally have coarser resolution to
>> begin with, and thus won't suffer as much, percentage-wise, in a
>> reduced raster-portion.
>
> Why is it called "Academy" if so many more movies, at least since the 60's
> were shot widescreen. I would have thought that the "Academy" would have
> moved away from that uninformational.
Because the Academy named 1.37 the official AR in, I think, 1933. It was the
first time that relatively new organization officially endorsed an AR. I
don't know if the Academy has done that since, but the name stuck with that
one.
Lincoln
Lincoln
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